Light Control Freezes at 5pm everyday

lightman
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Light Control Freezes at 5pm everyday

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I recently experienced a light control freeze at a theater I work running laptop with DMXIS dongle, Win 7, anti virus turned off, & wifi disabled the same time each day.

During rehearsal at 5pm AZ time (12 midnight GMT) each day the cues stop working.... I can still press show control buttons, but Device Browser is frozen with Monitor turned on. DMX Output window is frozen but DMXIS dongle is still blinking (DMX being sent)....and lights hold last position.

If I exit D-Pro...and reinvoke it, it works fine. In fact, after that.... it works all night through show...no problem. Next day...freeze at 5pm.

So I ran another computer, win7, different DMXIS dongle, wifi disabled...and it freezes at 5pm. In fact side by side, they both freeze at 5pm.

Is there a master timer in D-Pro or DMXIS dongle, or Win7 that checks for updates, or resets, or is scheduled for maintenance at 5pm AZ time (12 midnight GMT)?

Has anyone else seen freeze at same time everyday?

Perplexed,
Lightman
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Re: Light Control Freezes at 5pm everyday

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Fixed in upcoming 1.5 release.
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Re: Light Control Freezes at 5pm everyday

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You are the best Dave!

Regards,
Lightman (Brian)
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Re: Light Control Freezes at 5pm everyday

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I am pleased to report my "5pm freeze up" problem has been solved with the beta version 1.5.1. Dave issued me an early release to test his solution.

I ran a test today using new beta version at 5pm Tucson, Arizona, USA and no longer see the previously reported freeze up of lights. I ran ASUS laptop with i7 quad core and Win 7 OS using DMXIS dongle.

Thanks Dave! Great job!

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Re: Light Control Freezes at 5pm everyday

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This issue is fixed in the D-Pro 1.5.2 public release (now available via the standard D-Pro upgrade mechanism).
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