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I purchased the two phidgets with the idea of replicating the light show.

I have visual basic express and downloaded everything I need. I have two problems.

One: the vb and C verisons of the .exe light show dont detect my phidgets. I have no idea where to start debuging.

I was hopping to use Brians program for halloween. I will learn more later. :D

two: I have written a quick program to check and toggle my phidgets, I can only get one working at a time.

If I hard code the serial number I can talk to one or the other. I can figure out how to talk to both!

any help would be great!!
thanks

Regis

 

Hello,

When you say they're not detected, do you get a message that says no interface kits were detected when creating a new sequence?  Do you have any items in the list box on teh new sequence dialog box?

As for talking to both, you should just be able to create two instances of the InterfaceKit object and open a connection to each device by their serial numbers to talk to both.  Something like (not necessarily real code):

InterfaceKit ik1 = new InterfaceKit();

InterfaceKit ik2 = new InterfaceKit();

ik1.open(1234);

ik2.open(5678);

 

 

WOW, thanks for the quick response.

The new sequence dialog box shows nothing.

 

although if I run it with no devices attached I DO get an error message.

i will try your sugestion tonight.

thanks!!

Regis

 

I got my simple program working using your sugestion, thanks.

Yours still will not connect to my devices. seems to be in the phidgets.attach function.

Is an exception being thrown on the attach?  If so, can you please send it along so I can take a look?  Thanks!

' if we're at the end, bail out If (_tickCount >= _channels(1).Data.Length) Then tmrTimer.Enabled = False btnStart.PerformClick() Return End If I am having the same problem. No phidget listed on the new sequence form page. I get "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index" at the above chunk of code.

It appears the Phdigets library has changed since my last release of the sequencer last year.  I will need to compile a version against the updated Phidgets library.  I'll see if I can get to this sometime this week... 

 Thanks. You Rock.

I have updated the projects which *should* fix the problems everyone was seeing.  I'd appreciate any feedback on this to know whether compiling against the new libs fixed the issues.  It worked here, but outside verification woudl be great...thanks! 

Looks like it works. Thanks Brian.

 Excellent news...thanks!

Any chance we can get the sequences you previosly made?

I guess I accidentally got rid of that section.  Here's a link to the one sequence I created:

http://www.brianpeek.com/files/folders/sequences/entry2212.aspx 

 Brain, I am going to work on finding a way to read a midi file and fire phidget events to the music programatically. Will be very use if I can make it happen.

I had considered the MIDI route early on but didn't pursue it.  Let me know if you are able to make it work