For the past three seasons I have running my show with Vixen 2.1.1.0 and a usb dongle and 15 lynx express boxes. I had about 210 channels. Now it is time to expand. I want to add three mega trees using 72 strands of dumb strings. I have built a ether dongle and smart string hub and I have three more smart string hubs to build. Now the questions
!. I know I need to upgrade Vixen but to what version and do I need to add any addons. Where do I find the up grade for Vixen
2. I assume I will need to use E1.31 for all channels in vixen and then convert the first 512 channels to dmx at the smart string hub.
3. What if any are the wiring differences between smart strings and dumb strings. I have all my dumb string controllers built.
4. I envision the process to be Vixen to ether dongle then to a smart string hub, then split with first 512 channels going to the lynx express boxes and the pixels going to the dumb string controllers, is this correct.
Please give me any comments on my proposed layout and any corrections I need to make.
thanks for any comments you have including "you don't have a clue what to do"
Ken