peperoni usb dongles

[emilianomorgia]

I'll go ahead and purchase a Pepperoni single input dongle and let you all know how they work.

Christian Choi

It work great here .

[kmclights]

Bumping this thread with fruther questions about reliability of peperoni Rodin 2.

Twice in a tech now I've had the nice flashing blue LED turn constant and Catalyst stopped seeing DMX. The DMX was there (tested it) but plugging and replugging the DMX didn't resolve the problem. Only unplugging the USB from the Mac Pro and replugging resolved the problem.

Both times it has been totally unpredictable when it stopped working. Not good when I'm relying on it to trigger Catalyst at key moments. I've put in an e-mail to the guys who make peperoni to see if they have any ideas. Anyone else had any problems or found out why this may be happening.

Cheers,

Kevin

[kmclights]

From the peperoni makers...

Dear Kevin
The steady blue light means - you are right - that DMX is received. In addition it means that there are not USB transactions going on. The later seems to be the reason for your problems: the catalyst software is not handling the Rodin2 anymore.
As long as the software is handling the interface the blue led is flashing with approx 2Hz. If there is no DMX signal present the led will flash red with approx 2Hz and keep signalling usb transactions in blue.
Hopefully that helps.

Kind regards
Jan Menzel

...For all you who know more about Catalyst than I do...If this is true, why would Catalyst stop handling the peperoni adapter all of it's own accord?

Kevin

[samsc]

dont know - not tested recently for over a year - but i think that peperoni changed the way they did the usb.

[emilianomorgia]

Catalyst does handling the peperoni adapter.

[samsc]

Catalyst does handling the peperoni adapter.

i think they may have changed something in the hardware - but i havent had a chance to test for a long time

[Mike Redmer]

i have actual running a peperoni dmx->usb interface (it's two month old) and work's without any problems on intel mini mac pro, osx 10.4.9 and catalyst m119.

plug, patch in catalyst and play

[ping141]

Yes, I´ve had these problems. Mine mostly go to the Catalyst seeing the Peperoni, but giving 0 on all DMX channels upon startup. This happens very frequently. Unplug/plug the USB side works.

But, a desk operator had my system suddenly not responding to DMX during show, and it took him a while to get it back going, so I´m not all comfortable with the Peperoni.

[peppe]

It work great here .

I have a RODIN T, maybe only RODIN 2 is working when I can´t get Catalyst to see my T, I can choose Peperoni, but in the dmx value it just says "no peperoni".....and no signal, even with plug in and reconnect....

I don´t have acess to a RODIN2 to test, so anybody have function with a T?

[Mr_P]

indeed

I purchased a Rodin T - and it would be great to be able to use it

not an urgent request though Richard...

S