The Control Panel has 2 ways to test the lights on your controllers:
1.Use the Test Lights function on the main menu if you are going to run the show from your computer, once you are confident you have your networks set up correctly. If you are going to run your show from a Light-O-Rama Director, then there is no need to set up networks, and you should test using method #2.
2.Use the "Test Lights" function in the Hardware Utility when you are configuring your controllers to verify your configuration is correct. Testing using this method is covered below.
You can test the operation of Light-O-Rama controllers using the Hardware Utility by taking the following steps:
•If you haven't already done so, plug a Light-O-Rama USB adapter into an available port. Connect a Cat5 or Cat6 cable from the adapter to the controller. Plug the unit into an AC outlet, and turn the unit on.
•Open the Light-O-Rama Control Panel and navigate to the Hardware Utility section.
•Make selections in the Ports to Scan and Scan For boxes.
oIf you do not remember the unit's current unit ID, or if the controller doesn't seem to be reacting to its current ID, select "Advanced (Unknown Id)" in the "Scan For" box. If you select this option, make sure that you have just one controller connected.
•Click the "Scan" button
•Wait for results to appear at the bottom of the page
•For the device you are going to test, click the "Configure" button
Click the "Configure" button to change the unit ID of the controller
•After clicking the "Configure" button:
oIf you are configuring a Pixie or Cosmic Color device, then you will have a Test Pixels tab
oFor all other devices, you will have a Test Lights tab
oThe Light-O-Rama Input Pup has no outputs and therefore no Test tab is displayed
Testing Pixie and Cosmic Color devices
Because of their high channel counts, output to Pixie and Cosmic Color devices, like Cosmic Color Bulb, Cosmic Color Pixel, and Cosmic Color Ribbon, are tested a little differently than other LOR Controllers.
The Test Pixels tab for Pixies and Cosmic Color Devices
•Activate the "Run Test" toggle to start running the test (sending data to the controller).
•Select the check boxes next to the strings you want to test. There is one check box for each output on the pixel controller. You can check and uncheck boxes while the test is running.
•In the "Color Cycle" box, select the colors you would like included in the cycle. The test will continuously cycle through all of the selected colors until the test is stopped. You can change the selected colors while the test is running. If you only choose a single color, the test will remain on that color. There is also the choice for a custom color - there is a block that shows the currently selected custom color, and to its right is a down-arrow which you click to change the custom color. After clicking the down-arrow, you can set the customer color by picking from a spectrum, from a palette, by setting the red, green, and blue values via sliders, or set the HSV values via sliders.
This box assumes the first channel in a 3-channel group is red, the second is green, and the third is blue. Depending on your controller configuration and pixels strings you have connected, this may not be the case. So selecting red may display a different color. You have 2 options here:
1.Go to the configuration tab and change the color order to match your pixel strings. If you selected the correct color order, when you return to the "Test Pixels" tab, selecting "Red" should turn your string red. Later, when you set up props that use this controller in your preview, you should set the color order in Prop Definition to "RGB".
2.Leave the controller configuration as it is and just understand that selecting "Red" may yield a different color on your pixel string. Then set the correct color order in Prop Definition.
•You can adjust the speed at which the test changes colors by using the "Color Cycle Speed" slider on the right.
•Turn off the lights by deactivating the "Run Test" toggle.
•When you are done, click the "Back" button at the upper left to return to the scan results.
If you would like to test individual circuits on a Pixie or Cosmic Color device, select Test Lights on the main menu, then select the Test Pixels tab.
Test All Other Units
Testing any unit other than a pixel controller will show the screen below. This screen is designed to test individual circuits.
The Test Lights tab
•Activate the "Run Test" toggle to start running the test (sending data to the controller).
•Select the check boxes next to the circuit numbers you want to test. There is one check box for each output on the controller. You can check and uncheck boxes while the test is running.
•In the "Intensity" box, select how the intensity should change during each step in the test. The range slider at the bottom affects all choices.
o"Steady On" - turns the select circuits on to the maximum value on the range slider.
o"Fade Up" - starts the select circuits at the minimum value on the range slider, then fades up to the maximum value.
o"Fade Down" - starts the select circuits at the maximum value on the range slider, then fades down to the minimum value.
•In the "Effect" box, choose which lighting effect will be used during test.
o"All On" - during each step in the test, all selected circuits use the same intensity setting.
o"All Shimmer" - during each step in the test, all selected circuits shimmer and use the same intensity setting.
o"All Twinkle" - during each step in the test, all selected circuits twinkle and use the same intensity setting.
o"Chase" - during each step in the test, a single circuit is turned on using the intensity setting. The test moves from one circuit to the next in round-robin fashion.
•In the "Speed" box, move the slider to control how long each step of the test takes.
•Turn off the lights by deactivating the "Run Test" toggle.
•When you are done, click the "Back" button at the upper left to return to the scan results.