Mini Maestro and VSA

Support Servo controllers and servos
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Hi all,

I currently have a Halloween prop that up until my usb parallax servo controllers died was working fine. I have four singing skeletons with 4 servos each. The show is in VSA and like I said was working fine. I just recently bought the mini maestro 18 channel and have been trying to get it to work.
I am using VSA 4.0. I have it now set for MiniSSC servo and I am using com port 13 which is the control com port. I can control all the servos in the control center and they all function fine. But when I load the show and try to run it the servos are not working like they should. For example the Jaw of skeleton #1 will reset to close but as soon as the show starts will open fully, stay open and not follow the voice. I have been messing around with the channel settings but cannot seem to get it to work. Can anybody suggest something to try?

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Hello.

Are you using the exact same program (e.g. serial commands) for the Maestro as you were for the Parallax servo controller? Could you try simplifying it by testing a single servo and seeing if you can get it to move as you expect? If not, can you post the serial commands you are sending along with a description of the servo motion it causes (or maybe even a short video)?

Brandon