[Resolved] PinDMD3 and DOF conflict

[Pablo Smiraglia]

I have PinDMDv3 working with PinballX. I have just configured a Teensy controller with DOF, and it is working also (using the PF right/left events). Now the catch: they don't work together. If I start PinballX with the Teensy controller plugged to USB, the PinDMD does not work (the controller does). If I start it without the Teensy controller plugged, the PinDMD works fine. Note that:

- PinDMD is on COM3, Teensy on COM 6 (I have tried changing this with same results)

- PinDMD and the Teensy (DOF) work well together on Visual pinball (I have not tried FP, FX2 or other systems yet)

- Once the conflict happens, I have to recover the PinDMD by restarting the PC

 

Other than configuring dmddevice.ini in PinballX, is there other setting I should keep an eye on ? Is the DOF plugin somehow causing the conflict ? Any ideas on what to look for ? I'll be interested to hear form anyone that has both devices on their setups.

I can provide config and logs if necessary.

thanks.

[Draco1962]

I don't have either of these devices, but you may need to look at the IRQ settings for each device via Device Manager in Windows as it sounds like COM 3 and COM 6 share the same interrupt.

[Pablo Smiraglia]

No interrupt conflict, plus VP does not have an issue with using both controllers

[Draco1962]

You may want to go ahead and attach copies of your pinballx.ini and log.txt files.

[Pablo Smiraglia]

Here are my config files. I added pinDMD_log.txt that shows that PinballX is trying to connect to the DMD via COM6, instead pof COM3 as configured in DmdDevice.ini... I hope this helps figuring out what is wrong here... thanks.

DmdDevice.ini

pinDMD_log.txt

PinballX.ini

log.txt

[Pablo Smiraglia]

Tom, any ideas why would PBX try to talk to the PINDMD on COM6, when dmddevice.ini points to COM3 ?

[Pablo Smiraglia]

alright. I figured that PinballX was *not* using dmddevice.dll, but XDMD.dll instead. Looking at by \visual Pinball\XDMD folder, I noticed that I had a pinDMD.ini that was missing from \PinballX\ . Copying pinDMD.ini did the trick. Not PinballX (XDMD.dll actually) finds teh PINDMD3 on COM 3 regardless of teh Teensy being connected or not. 

I guess I missed a configuration step at some point... I remember I had to rename pindmd.dll to pindmd.dll.backup, for XDMD.dll to kick in, but I missed the part of having to either keep or create pindmd.ini, as XDMD.dll uses it

[Draco1962]

Thanks for reporting back with your solution!