I have been using DMX for 3 years, I already invested in the LOR iDMX gear 4 years ago, or whenever it first came out. No worry on investment there.
As far as being in S2, the translation idea is not bad. However, the translation is not so straight forward. I have not looked at the virtual controllers in LSP yet, but translating will mess up the template I have in S2. Not so bad if no changes occur during the season, but I am tweaking sequences usually many times. Sometimes even in a night. I will be over 600 channels this year with a lot of those being DMX. I still may consider this.
It has been a busier year than most for me, and I am having to re-adjust priorities in the display to do some new things, and also get quite a bit of Lynx gear into the show as all my new growth.
I will check with LOR on the DMX packet info. I was not aware of the length item.
Thanks all. I guess a test is still in order!