Upcoming Releases
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Category: Aurora Sequencer Software
Forum Name: Aurora 1.0
Forum Discription: This is the place to discuss (and report bugs) the 1.0 version of Aurora
URL: http://www.aurorashow.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1015
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Topic: Upcoming Releases
Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Subject: Upcoming Releases
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2010 at 1:01pm
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Two new releases are upcoming: Version 1.1: 1.1 was once canceled in favor of consolidation with 1.2, but it is back on the release schedule. Version 1.1 will fix the copy/paste performance issues which have been more than annoying this past year. Version 1.1 will also roll in some other additional changes. Estimated release is in late March. Version 1.2 (the DMX version): This will add DMX capabilities to the Aurora 1.x product line. This release will include the help manual as well. Release is estimated to be around July. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: BigDPS
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2010 at 5:51pm
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When you say copy/paste performance, do you mean the time it takes for the actual pasting to take effect? In other words, when I copy then paste, I can go for an oil change and have a bite to eat and it will still be pasting. That will be a very good thing!
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Posted By: TheQueb
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2010 at 9:39am
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What about copying between sequences? ------------- 80 D-Light-ful Channels http://www.SoutheastTexasLights.com - Southeast Texas Lights http://www.frappr.com/dlight - D-Light Users |
Posted By: Jonathan
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2010 at 6:42pm
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@BigDPS: Correct. What once took an entire geologic epoch to complete will now be done in a few minutes. Initial results look very promising. @TheQueb: That is the plan, yes. (Development continues.) ------------- ~Jonathan |
Posted By: TheQueb
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2010 at 10:22pm
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WooHooo! ------------- 80 D-Light-ful Channels http://www.SoutheastTexasLights.com - Southeast Texas Lights http://www.frappr.com/dlight - D-Light Users |
Posted By: JohnnyL
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2010 at 4:56pm
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will the RGB & schedular issues be fixed this time? ------------- "In God We Trust" all others pay cash |
Posted By: Jonathan
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2010 at 8:13am
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@JohnnyL: If I recall, you were part of the (small) group that was experiencing phantom shows, right? Meaning that at midnight, your show would sometimes start up again? (Or you would wake up at 3am seeing it going full blast?) While I can't mention specifics, I can say that some minor changes to the scheduler have been made and I believe they are stable enough that Michael will most likely include them in a release.
No changes (that I am aware of) have (yet) been made to RGB. But I'm not the programmer, so I can't comment with any real authority. ------------- ~Jonathan |
Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2010 at 9:25am
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Some RGB issues that were incidental to another issue have been fixed but have not yet been through testing specific to the RGB aspect. I'm not in front of the bug reports right now, so I'm not sure if your specific RGB issue has been addressed or not. The minor scheduler changes (which should workaround the midnight issue) will be rolled into 1.1. Near-seamless sequence transitions are stable in beta as well, so that feature will also roll into 1.1. While I wanted 2.0 to be in 2010 (we certainly could use the sales), it probably will not happen until 2011. This early part of this year will focus on major fixes (such as copy/paste) and roll in of minor fixes tested in 2009. The middle of the year will contain the DMX focus. After DMX, we'll be doing a "paper cut" release in order to clean up as many of the various annoyances that we can. In parallel with all of the above, we'll be migrating to a new installer in order to get rid of the installation issues. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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Posted By: Jonathan
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2010 at 8:55pm
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Although "Near-seamless transitions" sounds fancy and complicated, it is actually a really cool very easy to use new feature. This last season, it took me an average of 9 seconds to go from one sequence to the next; you may have noticed something similar in your shows. You will now have the ability (via a checkbox) to pre-load your sequences at the scheduled show start time so that during the show, as soon as one sequence ends, the next one plays pretty much instantaneously. I actually had to edit in a few seconds of silence between the songs and the voiceovers! ------------- ~Jonathan |
Posted By: Pony_God
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 7:44am
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Any word on sticking channels or the network not being picked up all the time? ------------- Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. http://www.frappr.com/dlight - D-Light users Unite! 
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 8:07am
is this an Aurora issue or a hardware issue? ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: Jonathan
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 1:37pm
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Didn't we trace that problem back to the FTDI driver? I'm pretty sure not an Aurora issue. ------------- ~Jonathan |
Posted By: Pony_God
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 1:48pm
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I didn't think so... I was running the latest driver and V3 of the adapter.
As for Aurora or hardware, It's not hardware unless it's tha adapter since... Well, three things.
1. Looping the sequencer drops the net after the first loop.
2. I've had an entire network not kick in until a few commands later at the start of the show/sequence.
3. There are a TON more sticking channels vs. last year and on the same with only the RS485 and Aurora being different.
If you check out this year's THX Intro, you'll see that the left side of the house doesn't kick in until the second command. As for stuck channels, I'd have to review the videos to point out a specific song/time where it's obvious. ------------- Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. http://www.frappr.com/dlight - D-Light users Unite!
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Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 3:11pm
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Sticking channels were tracked to two issues: 1. Some D-Light firmware versions are known to cause channels to stick. 2. There are some bad versions of the FTDI drivers out there (Windows Update pushed at least one of them). In addition to sticky channels, bad drivers can also cause severe lag and/or loss of networks (there appears to be a race condition within some driver versions where the adapter can be both closing and opening simultaneously and as a result neither happens). The issue is only compounded by changes FTDI made to their driver for Windows 7 compatibility which have caused a performance hit in the XP/Vista world. Sticking channels and dropping networks are not an Aurora issue. Testing to determine which driver version is the correct one for Aurora is still pending (lots of system/adapter version combinations to test). ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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Posted By: Comporder1
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 4:25pm
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FYI.... Dropped networks have also been caused by EMI near the adapter or network/USB cabling. I've had my radio tx lock up my USB485 adapter. Someone else found a motor near his cabling caused his adapter to lock up. ------------- http://www.williamsonworkshop.com - www.williamsonworkshop.com |
Posted By: BigDPS
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 6:18pm
Well all these changes will be very welcomed to this sequencer. Not having my wife hit me in the middle of the night and wake me up to inform me that our display has turned on again will be a blessing as well.
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Posted By: JohnnyL
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2010 at 10:16am
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I just wanted to say thanks for looking into the RGB & scheduler issues. John ------------- "In God We Trust" all others pay cash |
Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 12:22pm
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Just updating this thread since the release obviously didn't happen in late March... The delay is because we are fixing issues with the installer for version 1.1. Testing has shown that all of the "uninstall/reinstall/reboot a dozen times" problems from the past several versions were about to blow up on us again with the 1.1 installation. Switching installers wasn't part of the 1.1 schedule, so it has set us back a couple weeks. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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Posted By: BigDPS
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2010 at 6:07pm
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Will this update fix the importing of channels? It seems each time I import channels from a previously sequenced song, it will take an eternity and finally crash on me without doing what's supposed to happen. Unless I'm not doing it right which could well be a possibility.  ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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Posted By: bdkeen
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2010 at 12:06pm
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Now in late April.. Do you believe this slippage in 1.1 will also result in 1.2 being delayed? My interest is in the DMX version (1.2)..
For me it's understandable to have delays, I'd much sooner see more of the bugs out of a release version. This post is purely driven by curiosity. ------------- 
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Posted By: Pony_God
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2010 at 8:10am
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Understandable to a point, but we're at the 8 month late mark now...
If you remember, we were supposed to have the update in September for the 2009 season, not just in time for the 2010 season.
Now, being a programmer, I do realise there are unexpected delays and setbacks, but I've fired people that wanted to have the final product six months late and I know that if my current application upgrade is one month late, that there will be serious reprecusions to pay, possibly includeing the entire project being scrapped, and myself being fired.
I realise that Aurora is not Microsoft, and that there is not a large team working on it, but I think that we are serriously pushing the reasonable delay timeframe. ------------- Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. http://www.frappr.com/dlight - D-Light users Unite!
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Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2010 at 11:34am
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PG, The installer for the new version was trashing installs once again. We switched to a different vendor to resolve this but ran into other problems with the new installer. I'm now reworking a section of Aurora to allow it to run installer free (XCopy install; runnable from a USB drive without installation). ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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Posted By: Pony_God
Date Posted: 06 May 2010 at 5:50pm
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Less hooks in Windows always sounds good.
Can we get a solid 1.X date, or if needed (as far as I'm concerned), drop the 1.X update and only aim at 2.0 and call it Jan of 2011? ------------- Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. http://www.frappr.com/dlight - D-Light users Unite!
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