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Hardware => Lynx Smart String => Topic started by: travailen on September 07, 2013,

Title: Hub Modification
Post by: travailen on September 07, 2013,
Can the PixelNet 16 active and passive hubs be modified from working with universes 1 thru 4 to work with universes 5 thru 8. If so, how do I do it.

Thanks,

Rick S
Title: Re: Hub Modification
Post by: tbone321 on September 07, 2013,
There is no modification required.  The hub works with 4 Universes because it has 4 pairs of inputs.  You can better think of Universe 1 thu 4 as pair 1 thru 4.  If the hub is connected to an Etherdongle or conductor that is sending out Universes 5 thru 8, then the hub is working with those universes and pair 1 would be Universe 5, pair 2 would be Universe 6, etc ....... 
Title: Re: Hub Modification
Post by: Steve Gase on September 07, 2013,
RJ posted separate firmware image(s) for the EtD that has different multicast addresses for universes 5-8 and 9-12.  This will allow your show computer to send E1.31 packets over the same physical network to the 3 EtDs out there.  As tbone says, each EtD will act the same...  the second EtD would use jumpers 1 to get pixelnet universe 5, jumpers 2 to get pixelnet 6, and so on...
Title: Re: Hub Modification
Post by: travailen on September 07, 2013,
Thank you for the help.

Rick S