Hello.
I have an active hub that I'm planning to eventually use (obviously) for both smart strings and DMX. Some DMX stuff is ready to go, but the smart string stuff won't be ready until next year. In the meantime, I'd like to run just the DMX stuff. But, I'd like to get my software setup (Vixen, xLights) so that I can sequence the DMX stuff now and then add in the smart string stuff later on. I'm using the USB dongle, not an etherdongle, btw.
Can I flash my dongle to pixelnet and run the active hub for the DMX stuff without using the power supply for the hub? It seems like a waste of electricity for me to run the supply without powering any SSCs. Or, should I just leave the dongle flashed for DMX, run the DMX stuff directly through there, and worry about the hub when I'm ready to add smart strings? And will that method give me issues if I want to later add smart strings to the existing DMX-only sequences?
Thanks in advance.
-Greg