Trouble with LED strip and freestyler

[mrbear]

Hi all

Im using a 3 ch dmx decoder to try and control an led strip through freestyler. I have the decoder and LED strip separately powered and can use the decoder in standalone mode to control the led strip (e.g. red, green, blue or strobe etc). However I cannot get freestyler to control it - im using a usb to dmx device, and I matched the dipswitch address suggested by freestyler. I made a generic 3 channel fixture too.

Is it something to do with the fixture settings? or how freestyler is set up?

thanks

[Mattotone]

Have you managed to control any other fixtures? What does work?

There is a lot of things that go wrong as a new guy.

Fixture mode.
Fixture addressing.
DMX interface drivers.
Cable Polarity.
fixture profile.
and using the software incorrectly.

[mrbear]

I have managed to control a laser fixture with the same setup. I guessing the issue is with the fixture profile and it not matching up to the decoder, but who knows? I did manage to control the led strip for a short period of time but haven't been able to recreate that miracle.