I wanted to see if my thought process is correct before I hook all this up and nothing works. I will have ~6200 total channels. All but ~50 are RGB/pixelnet. I don't want to span universes if possible so it seems like the most logical setup is as follows. My megatree is the largest channel count so it will be on it's own universe and use up 4080 channels of it. I should then have 16 blank channels to complete the first universe I believe. The rest of my items would then be on the second universe. The attached items describe in graphic detail what I am thinking. Do I need to add additional blank channels to the end of the second universe to complete the channel count to get to 8192 or do I just stop at my last channel...which is about 6250? Am I missing something or way off base in my plan?
Also, if I have a Lynx Express as the first DMX item, it would actually be set to channel 1, even though the channel in Vixen is 4097. Correct?? The DMX items would just map 4096 behind the channel number in Vixen. So the DMX channel of an Item would be (X - 4096) where X is the channel in Vixen. Or alternately, the channel assigned in Vixen should be X + 4096...where X is the DMX address of the item. And using the same logic, my first smart string controller after the DMX items would be set to start at channel 51...even though it is 4148 in Vixen. Or would it still start @ 4148?? HMMM, now I am wondering.
TIA,
-Keith