WiLink
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Topic: WiLink
Posted By: BigDPS
Subject: WiLink
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2009 at 5:47pm
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I know this isn't D-Light forums but I really am lost. I have posted over to D-Light but I want to set my controllers this weekend and need to find what I'm doing wrong. I'm hoping either forums can help me. This is my problem as posted on D-Light WiLink area:I have the remote in controller number 1. Then I have controllers a cat5 going from 1 to 5 to 4 to 3. The problem is this. When I discover to try and see my boxes, 1,4 and 5 comes up. 3 is dropped completely. When I put a cat5 cable from the spare connector to 1 going straight to 3, I then get controllers 1,3 and 4 to be discovered. I just can't have more than 3 controllers at a time. What am I doing wrong? I can use the hardware utility on every channels but not on the missing boxes. I haven't added my 5th box yet either. This doesn't look good at this point!!!  I have every parts with the latest firmware. When I play my sequence on Aurora, it doesn't see the missing controller at all. Anybody care to advance a theory as to what may be going on? ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2009 at 1:37pm
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What distance of cable? Have you tried terminating the line? ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: BigDPS
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2009 at 2:03pm
Right now, the longest cable is 10 feet. They are all side by side besides my mock display. I can just imagine the headache when the whole line will be out on almost 100 feet total! 
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Posted By: BigDPS
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2009 at 4:55pm
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Okay this is what I did: I put all my boxes side by side and attached them to my middle box ID#4. Then I added one box on each side one at a time. From left to right, they are in this order: 3,5,4,6 and 1. That's to match my trees and what not. From 4, I have 6 connected to it going to 1. All that side works and is discovered. When I try to attach 5, it isn't discovered at all. Even though that box isn't discovered, box #3 is attached to it and is discovered no problem. It's looks like that box doesn't like the idea of being fed through the WiLink. What a racist box.  However, if I connect all 5 boxes using wires hooked to the RS485USB dongle, all 5 boxes are happy like flies on poop.  They are all discovered no problem. I tried swapping cables, closed the loop by adding wires to the empty jacks but no go. Box #5 just doesn't want to play like the others. I am very lost.  I even tried changing the ID number on the box but that didn't do jack squat. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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