RJ,
I'm surprised nobody's brought this up yet...
Will wireless DMX be able to integrate into the hub?
The final hub has a DMX out port on it that you jumper to select which 512 channels it outputs. The wireless hooks here and sends out your wireless DMX.
So in other words you can have channel 3684 of PixelNet be your DMX Start and it would be DMX channel #1 on your expresses for example.
Or you can have Channel #1 of PixelNet be you DMX start and Channel #1 of PixelNet will be your Channel #1 on DMX.
Make sense?
The whole system is designed around the minimum and simplest of hardware to get the job done. The other requirement being that it is completely DIY so simple means less to build. This in turn means cheaper. The only cost that is fixed, so I had no control over, was the power supplies and pixel strings but they cost the same for every system. Because I am using higher voltage I need less power supplies also so my mega tree only needs on inexpensive $40 power supply. When you increase the voltage each amp has much more wattage so you then need less amps to do a given job.
RJ
Ok if I read this right, then you can send DMX out from PixelNet (any given 512 chs), I think the original question was can Pixelnet be wireless or does it need a CAT5 connection to the modified dongle, instead of using a "modified" TX/RX ver2?
EDIT 11/02/10: Just re read your post or do you mean that "PixalNet" can take over a single DMX Channel, but control over 3048 Pixals? So it could recieve the info from a standard TX/RX or even a modified or newer EX/RX?
Hope a wireless option is available since my neighbor and I are looking for a multi house display in 2010 (already worked for halloween) that will be expanding for 2010 Christmas and obviously 2011 Xmas (Hopefully with these )
BTW Thanks for mentioning this can basically replace LED Triks II, now my budget really has gone.
Ok, before I confuse people any more let me clear it up.
First you can not send PixelNet over the wireless system. You can use a regular DMX Dongle on the same computer as a PixelNet Dongle.
PixelNet is the protocol for the SmartStrings. DMX is still DMX. So you can use one dongle to control 512 ch of DMX things, and at the same time run a PixelNet dongle to run 4096 ch of Pixels.
But if you say needed one universe of (DMX 512 ch) and only 3684 ch of pixels or less, Then you can run one pixelnet dongle and on the hub is an DMX out port. It will steal 512 channels of your pixelnet data and make DMX data out of them.
See the pictures
Look at # 1 it is running one pixelnet dongle putting out 4096 channels of pixel data. But at the hub it is converting 512 of them into DMX and sending it to a Transmitter to run my dmx devices in the yard via wireless. The Smart Strings then connect to the hub for power and data.
In the second picture I show the same but not using wireless just sending the DMX via cat5 to the Express. Also in this one I am showing you how just like DMX the Pixelnet can daisy chain to additional hubs.
Hope this clears it up some.