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#1 bthlonewolf

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Posted 04 July 2025 - 05:09 PM

Love what I can do with DOFLinx, so thank you!

 

I have 5 flashers and 2 strobe on my cab right below the DMD. (strobe - 5 flashers - strobe)

 

All working great. In my DOF config, I turned down the brightness considerably at the global level using the custom brightness. In my DOFLinx config, I do this to lower the strobe:

 

LINK_SR=122,ON,200,50

 

I have my flashers set up such as:

 

LINK_FLOL=110

 

... but would like to lower the brightness a bit (in short, scale it to a lower range similar to what DOF does). Is there a way to do this in DOFLinx globally? I realized that if I add additional parameters, I believe it's looking for additional device/port assignments. I'm pretty sure I can edit the FX config files in this case if needed.

 

Thanks so much!



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Posted 06 August 2025 - 02:28 PM

I am interested in the same. I tried the intensity settings that work for toys and that does not work.



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Posted 07 August 2025 - 04:51 AM

There is no global intensity function in DOFLinx.

 

You can adjust per device, as you have for the strobe.  This also applies to RGB devices https://doflinx.gith...doooffffmmmmiii

 

For anything RGB you can also use a DOF config file with the intensity turned down.  This loads different values for the colours that are lower intensity.  I think its best to do it when loading devices rather than the DOF config file unless you use the same lower intensity for things like VPX.


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Posted 08 August 2025 - 12:36 AM

There is no global intensity function in DOFLinx.

 

You can adjust per device, as you have for the strobe.  This also applies to RGB devices https://doflinx.gith...doooffffmmmmiii

 

For anything RGB you can also use a DOF config file with the intensity turned down.  This loads different values for the colours that are lower intensity.  I think its best to do it when loading devices rather than the DOF config file unless you use the same lower intensity for things like VPX.

Can this be done for the flashers. It did not seem like it from the Parameters help file. If it can is this the correct string to turn the outside left flasher brightness to 50%

 

FLOL = 237,ON,0,127



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Posted 08 August 2025 - 08:01 AM

Sorry, I didn't explain well.  No you can not do this for LINK_FLxx= .  You will need to use a directoutput.ini file with the colour's intensity set to the level you want.


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