Multiple Universes

[mitch09]

Just checking to make sure I understand correctly here. This year I ran about 3000 channels of pixelnet including my first 512 for dmx on one pixelnet universe. I am planning on changing my mega-tree over to rgb and I believe will need another universe. Am I correct in my thinking that the one etherdongle will put out 4 universes of pixelnet and I just need to set the jumper on the other 16 port active hub I am using to Universe 2. This will also control all of my current dmx stuff in my yard.

Thanks for correcting or reassuring me,

ryan

[peteandvanessa]

You are correct Sir, the etherdongle puts out 4 x 4096 channels = 16,384, so it can support 4 Smart Hubs and each Hub support 4096 channels. So Hub 1 can be set to PixelNet Universe 1, Hub 2 PixelNet universe 2 etc.

[mitch09]

Thanks. Just thought I'd ask instead of trial and error.

[chrisatpsu]

and then hibs set to different uni #'s can be in any order...  if using 4 universes, the 2nd hub you come to can be on universe 4 for example

[Steve Gase]

...and, each smart hub has the ability to select any of the 8 512-channel blocks to expose as DMX channels.


Each smart hub has 4096 pixelnet channels.   Think of them as 8 blocks of 512...  (8x512=4096).  A jumper lets you access any of the blocks. 


The devices attached to DMX still think of themselves as devices with a channel assignment from 1 through 512.  But the software thinks of it as channel in the range of 1-4096.

[mitch09]

...and, each smart hub has the ability to select any of the 8 512-channel blocks to expose as DMX channels.


Each smart hub has 4096 pixelnet channels.   Think of them as 8 blocks of 512...  (8x512=4096).  A jumper lets you access any of the blocks. 


The devices attached to DMX still think of themselves as devices with a channel assignment from 1 through 512.  But the software thinks of it as channel in the range of 1-4096.

Steve,

Does this mean if I use LSP I could technically just have one controller e1.31 for every 4096 channels, then have light elf turn it into a xseq file?

[smeighan]

...and, each smart hub has the ability to select any of the 8 512-channel blocks to expose as DMX channels.


Each smart hub has 4096 pixelnet channels.   Think of them as 8 blocks of 512...  (8x512=4096).  A jumper lets you access any of the blocks. 


The devices attached to DMX still think of themselves as devices with a channel assignment from 1 through 512.  But the software thinks of it as channel in the range of 1-4096.

Steve,

Does this mean if I use LSP I could technically just have one controller e1.31 for every 4096 channels, then have light elf turn it into a xseq file?

I use one E1.31 etherdongle for three hubs, 12288 channels. In the first hub i also use 70 channels of DMX.

This worked perfectly for me. I have two active hubs and 1 passive, I am finding that i am not using that many Lynx Express channels , but am making most of my display smart rgb.

It looks like i will be running close to the 16K channels this year.

E1.31 + 4 hubs + 64 SSC's

[mitch09]

...and, each smart hub has the ability to select any of the 8 512-channel blocks to expose as DMX channels.


Each smart hub has 4096 pixelnet channels.   Think of them as 8 blocks of 512...  (8x512=4096).  A jumper lets you access any of the blocks. 


The devices attached to DMX still think of themselves as devices with a channel assignment from 1 through 512.  But the software thinks of it as channel in the range of 1-4096.

Steve,

Does this mean if I use LSP I could technically just have one controller e1.31 for every 4096 channels, then have light elf turn it into a xseq file?

I use one E1.31 etherdongle for three hubs, 12288 channels. In the first hub i also use 70 channels of DMX.

This worked perfectly for me. I have two active hubs and 1 passive, I am finding that i am not using that many Lynx Express channels , but am making most of my display smart rgb.

It looks like i will be running close to the 16K channels this year.

E1.31 + 4 hubs + 64 SSC's

Are you going to run this with LSP scheduler, xLights, Conductor, or something else? I have read that large channel counts are becoming an issue with schedulers. I have always used xlights do I need to get in on a conductor coop?

Ryan

[smeighan]

...and, each smart hub has the ability to select any of the 8 512-channel blocks to expose as DMX channels.


Each smart hub has 4096 pixelnet channels.   Think of them as 8 blocks of 512...  (8x512=4096).  A jumper lets you access any of the blocks. 


The devices attached to DMX still think of themselves as devices with a channel assignment from 1 through 512.  But the software thinks of it as channel in the range of 1-4096.

Steve,

Does this mean if I use LSP I could technically just have one controller e1.31 for every 4096 channels, then have light elf turn it into a xseq file?

I use one E1.31 etherdongle for three hubs, 12288 channels. In the first hub i also use 70 channels of DMX.

This worked perfectly for me. I have two active hubs and 1 passive, I am finding that i am not using that many Lynx Express channels , but am making most of my display smart rgb.

It looks like i will be running close to the 16K channels this year.

E1.31 + 4 hubs + 64 SSC's

Are you going to run this with LSP scheduler, xLights, Conductor, or something else? I have read that large channel counts are becoming an issue with schedulers. I have always used xlights do I need to get in on a conductor coop?

Ryan

I am using xlights version e. it worked fine with the 12K channels.

[rdebolt]

Steve,

Does this mean if I use LSP I could technically just have one controller e1.31 for every 4096 channels?

In LSP you would set up 1 E31 contoller output for all of your channels. I would break things out into different zones, such as put all of the tree channels on zone 1 and all DMX on zone 2. Something along those lines anyway. Doing it all with E131.