ARRRG!!! Anyone else have trouble connecting to Centralite LiteJet?

[86turbodsl]

It is too bad this isn't working for you! I really like my Litejet 48. I had a little trouble getting it to talk to my Elk out of the box but once I sorted that out it has been great!

Let us know what you find out!

Well that's encouraging. I *really* like the architechture and simplicity of the Litejet, and am very disappointed it didn't work out of the box, especially for
a US-built product. Let's hope my contact at Centralite can help out. I'll report back here what I find out.

Thanks for the tips.

Mark

Well, I spoke with some extremely knowledgable folks at Centralite today who diagnosed two bad MCU's. They were shocked.
We'll see what happens with the swapout... stay tuned.

 

[ctay]

Well, I spoke with some extremely knowledgable folks at Centralite today who diagnosed two bad MCU's. They were shocked.
We'll see what happens with the swapout... stay tuned.

Wow... I'm shocked as well. Bad luck for you!

 

[86turbodsl]

Well, I spoke with some extremely knowledgable folks at Centralite today who diagnosed two bad MCU's. They were shocked.
We'll see what happens with the swapout... stay tuned.

Wow... I'm shocked as well. Bad luck for you!

Ok, got the two new boards installed. It's acting wierd still though...

I can get two green RS232 lights on it, and I can get lights to go all on on whatever unit I'm plugged into, but I can't get an all on command to work on both units at the same time. They don't seem to be talking to each other. I can plug in to either one and control only that unit though. When I try to recieve data from the units, it says there's an error, but I still have a green light. I checked my data rates and it's all matching. I pinned out my cable between units and that pins out as a null modem alright. I am just stumped.... any suggestions/insight?

Ctay, I noticed on one of your posts that you had an issue with a bad cable, and they diagnosed pin 7 being bad. Since pin 7 is not one of the send/recieve or ground wires, do you know if they require full connectivity for the null modem cable on this controller? Currently I only have 2,3,5 connected on my null modem with 5 being ground.

 

[86turbodsl]

Update:

If I take the software OUT of Litejet48 mode, I can work with each unit separately, and capture buttons, program, etc no problem.
But not together. I'm beginning to think there's some problem with the null modem setup. But not the cable? Just three pins on the cable,
2,3,5. Do I need a full null modem pinout? ARRRG!!!

 

[ctay]

Just got back into town...

What I found out when I was troubleshooting communication between the Elk and the Litejet was that when talking to the Elk the Litejet does use pins 2,3,5 and 7. When communicating with its own software (dip 8 in off position) it only uses pins 2,3 and 5. What I suspect is there is a problem with the chipsets on the boards they sent you. What I guess is that you got two boards for Litejet 24's and you now need to convert them to litejet 48's. The procedure is in the litejet manual but the problem is I doubt they sent you the proper chip to convert to LJ48. Give them a call and I'm sure they will sort it out.

Just to be sure can any buttons from panel "a" change lights in panel "b"?

Mark I wouldn't recommend going outside during lightning storms. You seem to have the worst luck in the world right now!

 

[86turbodsl]

Just got back into town...

What I found out when I was troubleshooting communication between the Elk and the Litejet was that when talking to the Elk the Litejet does use pins 2,3,5 and 7. When communicating with its own software (dip 8 in off position) it only uses pins 2,3 and 5. What I suspect is there is a problem with the chipsets on the boards they sent you. What I guess is that you got two boards for Litejet 24's and you now need to convert them to litejet 48's. The procedure is in the litejet manual but the problem is I doubt they sent you the proper chip to convert to LJ48. Give them a call and I'm sure they will sort it out.

Just to be sure can any buttons from panel "a" change lights in panel "b"?

Mark I wouldn't recommend going outside during lightning storms. You seem to have the worst luck in the world right now!

Resolution: Both boards sent as replacements were shipped with firmware SC7.0 instead of DC7.0. The S stands for single and the D stands for dual.

They shipped me new firmware chips and after popping them in, I have both controllers talking to each other and everything works as it should.

Thanks for the help guys!

 

[ctay]

Resolution: Both boards sent as replacements were shipped with firmware SC7.0 instead of DC7.0. The S stands for single and the D stands for dual.

They shipped me new firmware chips and after popping them in, I have both controllers talking to each other and everything works as it should.

Thanks for the help guys!

Glad you got it worked out!