Even though in 1986 a small band of USITTians got together to establish a protocol whereby any console could talk to and control any device, to this day we are still plagued with this "language barrier". At least today it's primarily how to get a device to listen to or speak DMX, as opposed to translating K96 into CD80, or whatever.
For off the shelf solutions,
Doug Fleenor Designers,
Pathway Connectivity (formerly Gray Interfaces), and others make excellent products, but these are often priced beyond the reach of most non-professionals.
Other companies serving the needs of those less fortunate are:
Northlight Systems, Tempe, AZ
Apogee Kits, Texas, USA
Milford Instruments, UK-based.
All Spectrum Electronics, relay kit for $37.
Celestial Audio, lots of neat DMX and LED devices.
Blue Point Engineering, ditto.
One can also find used converters, such as the excellent ETC Response-Series, on sites like
Gearsource,
UsedLighting,
Solaris Network, and
PRG Lighting.
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Originally Posted by n1ist
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A simple to build DMX tester, almost as good as the ones
DFD charges $25 for:
http://www.bigclive.com/dmxtest.htm.
See
http://response-box.com/ for Protocol Bridges: DMX->MIDI, DMX->Serial, DMX->IR, etc.
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