While trolling the LOR site I came across this thread.
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Will S3 software (once E131 capability is added) allow direct connect to an E131 controller? I'm interpreting your explanation as that being the case (for example, S3 with E131, connected direct to a sandevices E681 board, or one of the j1sys devices), and the gateway you describe is purely for interfacing to non-E131 devices, such as standard LOR controllers, or DMX devices. So the gateway is optional, not required.
Please let me know if I am thinking about this correctly.
I think you have it exactly right if what I say in the next paragraph is correct.
My understanding of the E681 is that it looks to S3 exactly like an E1.31 gateway -- it doesn't matter to us that it decodes the DMX messages and drives the pixel strings itself. If it is E1.31 compliant, then no additional hardware is needed. PC -> LAN -> E681. Our gateway is like the J1Sys EthConGateways which we used for our initial testing.
If the E681 is as I explained above, then it is similar to our Matrix controller. It's just that we have a bigger window into the user community so we needed to add some additional hardware to meet their needs.
So it it puts E1.31 out to an eather dongle flashed with Pixel Net will I control Pixel net with S3? Looks like I can from what I understand the Edongle just converts the input to Pixel net.....I hope it works.