OK then, double check the wires going to the terminal strip on both sides.
Just to confirm, all the buttons should light up if your adapter in good since the order of the leds us correct. Your only problem should be the joystick doesn’t light up right?
I’ll double check the barrier strip lighting when I get home from work.
But the RGB LED isn’t doing anything, and the J2s, which are working fine with the old setup/coding, work but are all out of sync - so when I press K4 one LED from the K4 J2 lights up and one LED from the K3 J2 lights up and so on around all the buttons.
Ok so why don’t we start from a good config? Get that original config working without the joystick. Once you confirm they are working plug the joystick led at the end of the LED chain rather than in the beginning, then we start messing around with the code to map it, which will probably be just changing the assigned number in the definitions.
This is definitely strange, is this the first time you connect it to load code or has it worked before? Use a different USB cable just to eliminate that possibility.
It has never worked when connecting to a machine in Khameleon mode. I’ve tried multiple USB cables and different usb ports on each of the machines. When it’s connected and NOT in Khameleon mode the passthrough works correctly. When I either use the ‘home-k1’ button combination OR press the button on the board it disconnects from windows and never enumerates as a new device. I’ve ordered a Kaimana mini to see if that works any better. I’m hoping to hear back from Paradise at some point as it sounds like a hardware failure.
Right I’m home, fed and sat down with my stick so shall try @JRDIBBS ideas…
I’ve solved a small problem, turns out the reason I had no joystick lighting at all was because I had wired into the Barrier Strip incorrectly. Now that I’ve wired that right I at least have lighting.
However I think the coding is off.
I’ve had to stick with wiring the joystick in BEFORE the J2 chain, as I don’t have a wire to chain off of the last J2 to the Kaimana Adaptor, I only have harnesses with 4 pin connectors on. So it has to stay in front. However troubleshooting should be somewhat easier now I at least have lighting.
using the wiring from before Everything lights up and starts the idle animation. After I press something the LEDs all change to their “unpressed” purple, but as before the LEDs are out of sync and the last LED in the sequence stays red all the time.
Moving the joystick does nothing. P4 actives 1 P4 LED and the Joystick, P3 activeates the other P4 LED and 1 P3 LED and it continues around until K4 only activates one of its LEDs.
If I use the same code and definition without the joystick in place the LEDs work perfectly.
If I use the old code (just button LEDs) the button LEDs work as they should and the joystick just stays the one colour.
Video showing the Setup using the Code that includes the joystick (definitions above) without the joystick LED attached and then with it attached:
Glad you got that out of the way! Now we enter the world of “what the hell are you doing man?” lol Did you create a new code file or just use the same one?
General ideas on why this is happening :
The indexing of the leds is breaking when you add the joy to the chain. Why? It probably has to do with the way the SWITCHES (NOT the leds) are defined in the code. @“Jasen Hicks” what button order is your site expecting?
I wish I had a set of j2s to be of more help out but I just have regular js at the moment
I used the same code file from last week when I first started trying to add the RGB LED, just a simple everything is purple, turns yellow on activation with home, sel, start off using the definitions above.
@Noryia
I had the same problem with a Khameleon and it turns out it was not programmed correctly. It’s been a while since I’ve played with my board, but I believe there’s an LED to indicate whether it’s in PS360 or or programming mode. If that light isn’t on, you should probably contact the vendor for an RMA/exchange.
@JRDIBBS I used the same code file from last week when I first started trying to add the RGB LED, just a simple everything is purple, turns yellow on activation with home, sel, start off using the definitions above
Hello! I’ve been working on getting my LED’s working on-off for the better part of a year but I am at a roadblock and I’m throwing in the towel and asking for help.
I am currently using 8 Kaimana J2 LEDs indexed and the Khameleon with a PS360+.
I’ve gotten it soldered together, it doesn’t seem to be defective because the LED1/power light works, as well as the 2 & 3 that indicate which mode its on and the little button on the board switches between them fine.
I’ve also set up Arduino 1.6.5 and uploaded the Kaimana_master example ino file - Set to Leonardo and port Com3(Leonardo) - to the Khameleon without a problem.
Everything seems fine with both the hardware and software but I cannot get any of the LED’s to work at all, I’ve tried multiple indexing paths and nothing will even give me a sign of life.
If they were at least working but not lighting up in the correct order or something similar I would keep troubleshooting it myself but I’m not savvy enough to figure out what the problem is.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
Really stumped here, one last test you can do, only leave the Joystick LED connected and change the index to 0, then test the joystick on its own. Let’s confirm the LED adapter works correctly.
First things first, If you connect the Khameleon on its own to the usb does it turn on the leds? Check that you are connecting the Kaimana to the DIN side of the J not the DOUT and that the chain follows DIN->DOUT until the last J
When I have a little more spending money I’m gonna get one of these to do a cycling rainbow. I don’t know how I didn’t see this in any of the other 3 years it’s been here…
In other of news, I got an indexable LED strip and am driving 30 leds succesfully! Trying anything above that causes issues which im sure is all code based but real life is happening so i only work 15 mins on them some days. Anyone get their stuff working?
Sorry, very busy. I tried disconnecting the entire string and made sure each one was DI to DO with the last D1 plugging into the Khameleon itself, fired it up by the USB connector on the Khameleon and nothing.
But I did find something new, after that failed I didn’t disconnect the power but instead the LEDs; after I rechecked them all I plugged the strand back in and it killed the LED1 and LED3 on the Khameleon board until I disconnected them again - could it be drawing too much power or bleeding it somehow?
Thanks for the help so far, I’m making some progress now.
It sound like either too much power draw (are you using a relatively modern computer?) or a crossed connection (triple check that din-dout). Can you plug just 1 J and see if it turns on?