BSS Soundweb 9088ii's won't connect. Can you help?
Funk-O-Meter
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I scored a couple of the older green BSS Soundwebs and am trying to program them but the Sound Designer software keeps saying \"preparing to go online\" and then \"Soundweb could not find a device on the network\"
I'm using a gigabyte RS282 to USB converter w/ a gender bender and have tried several different versions of soundweb software and tried all kinds of different ports and baud rate settings. I'm connected to the rear port. I could try to connect to the front port by hacking up a s-video cable but that's about all I have left to try.
Somebody help a brother out or Im gonna have to sell these off and I don't wanna. They where pulled from a working system.
Can you help?
I'm using a gigabyte RS282 to USB converter w/ a gender bender and have tried several different versions of soundweb software and tried all kinds of different ports and baud rate settings. I'm connected to the rear port. I could try to connect to the front port by hacking up a s-video cable but that's about all I have left to try.
Somebody help a brother out or Im gonna have to sell these off and I don't wanna. They where pulled from a working system.
Can you help?
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Two different RS232/RS485 adapters.
Two different 9088ii's
Three different PC's with two different OS's
Multiple baud rates, com ports and addresses.
The only thing left to try is to build a cable and try the front 232 port. I read in my travels that perhaps if the units where being controlled by one of the aftermarket controllers that they wold be programmed to answer only the front port.
Today I took the units to work where we use a rs232 adapter to talk down the snake system to our XTA DSP's. This was to eliminate any potential problems concerning the adapter, OS, or PC. Everything worked like clockwork when talking to the XTA's. I fire up and connect the 9088's and Sound Designer can't find any units on the network. I went directly from the USB port through the adapter to the 9088ii's rear port.
So I guess I'll try hacking up an S-video cable and building a front port dongle.
im presuming you have used null modem cable?
i purchased a keyspan usb>rs232 adapter cable as other posts indicated they were pretty good, and seemed to have worked for them
i made my own front panel cable as per the specs in help file.
fyi - a svideo cable is different pin config. - need 8pin mini din.
so tried 2 different usb> rs232 adapters
tried pass thru and null modem leads
made my own front panel lead - also tried null and pass thru cable.
and still no joy
tried on two different 9088iis units.
not sure where to go from here.