How to setup second hub?

[smeighan]

How do I set the jumpers so that my 16 port passive hub is an extension beyond my active hub.

I want my active hub to be channels
1-4096
and my passive hub be
4097-8192

I see pixenet and universe as jumpers on my hubs.

i thought pixelnet would be set to 2 on the second passive hub, it didnt work.

thanks

[sjb]

I believe that is correct and then the first node on the 2 universe is set to channel 1 on the SSC and 4097 in the sequence software.

[jnealand]

I believe both jumpers need to be set to 2 on the second hub.

[sjb]

This is from the PDF in the wiki, I hope it helps.

Understanding Channel Numbers
HubPixelNet     Jumpers   SSC Channel #    LSP Channel #
1                      1 & 1        1 - 4096              1 - 4096
2                      2 & 2        1 - 4096             4097 – 8192
3                      3 & 3         1 - 4096            8193 -12288
4                      4 & 4         1 - 4096            12289- 16384

[smeighan]

Ok;

My first light show is in the books.

But i need to do something to align the start channels.

I programmed my 20 x 120- strings (7200 channels)

String 1: channel 1- 360
String 2: Channel 361 - 720

...

String 12: channel 3961 - 4321
..
String 20: channel 6831-7200

The mega tree was beautiful, But when patterns got to string 12, they all shifted the rgb colors. Reds became either blue/green. Not sure what.
Pixel 1 was no longer at the bottom of the strand.

So i am guessing i cannot cross the 4096 boundary. As soon as i did, colors shifted.
kind of a cool effec, but not what i wanted.

How do you all handle crossing a pixelnet boundary?

Do i need to put out zeroes to fill in the pseudo string 12 to go to 4096 and then start the real string 12
on Pixelnet 2, SSC channel #1 (ch 4097)?

[chrisatpsu]

channel 4097 is in the 2nd universe, you can't have a hub access channels from more than one universe

you can shift all the addresses by (i think 135?) to have the split fall on a natural segment of your ssc's

you can splice in another ssc to divide the string into a before 4096 section, and an after 4096 section, but you will still need to change the channel numbers where nodes lie, as 4096 isn't evenly divisible by 3.

[smeighan]

Ok; i am going to make a new ability in nutcracker.

I will prompt for  multiple nc files and create one larger vix file from it. Since i am using Vixen this season, if i get time i will make it also work on lor, and hls, lsp and msq files will need to wait for next year.

So here is what i think as channel assignments for my 3 16 post hubs



I will make a form that i will fill in

dmx.nc
star.nc
dummy1.nc
A~f149.nc (This is my mtree)
dummy2.nc
A~f152.nc (This is my arches)
A~f162.mc (This is my boys window)
A~f163.nc (This is the guest window)

I will name this collection, Wizards in Winter.

It will then stitch all of these files together and produce one vix/vir file.

I will start coding and see if my idea works

thanks