Hello All, I need your recommendations because I can't seem to wrap my mind around what I am doing. So far I have two of the DIY LYNX dongles flashed with Pixelnet firmware. One I will be using with a Smart String hub to control 15 of the 90 node flexible strips for a total of 4095 channels(hmmm, what to do with the 1 leftover channel? LOL) The second I will use on 8 120 node flexible strips for an additional 2904 channels. I have another dongle controlling my 8 Animated Lighting controllers. Now, I have purchased 30 of Brad Boyink's (Computerized Lightings) Snow tubes, so if each set of 10 equals 480 channels, that is 3 DMX universes and I would need 3 more dongles? That would make 6 dongles? I don't think my show laptop has that many com ports!!! LOL Now how do I handle all those dongles? Also since my second Lynx hub has 1192 left over channels, could I use the DMX output on my second hub (and a DMX splitter?) to control 960 channels of the programmable snow tubes and instead of needing 3 more dongles I would only need 1 more flashed with DMX firmware? I am not sure if the hub can speak Pixelnet and DMX at the same time or the dongle can send Pixelnet and DMX signals to the second hub at the same time? Do I go with an EthConGateway for the snow tubes? Is there a DIY alternative to the EthCon Gateway? I'm sure the answer is simple, I just can't seem to see the forest through the trees right now. FYI I will be using LightShow Pro again this year. Thanks for any help you can give.