Is anyone else using wireless DMX?

[icewolf08]

Originally Posted by koncept

what about using some dmx over ethernet? (i know this is going away from the original post) but if you used taht you could probably use wireless bridges to do something similar. but becareful and do not put something that could cause damage on a wireless system
(this is wierd to have so many threads inter relate...or at least the ones i've been watching have been)
http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/s...7&goto=newpost

As far as I understand, even though you can run DMX on Cat5 cable, you can't just plug it into standard network hardware and expect it to work. With many of the lighting consoles available like the Strand 300/500, ETC Eos or Obsession II they communicate with their DMX nodes via TCP/IP so you can connect those to standard network hardware. Therefore you can connect, say, a Strand 500 to a wireless router (provided you know how to set it up to work with ShowNet) and then connect an SN103 DMX node to a WAP that connects to the wireless network and it would work. I believe the same goes for ETCNet.

So this, while useful, may not solve the issues that some of the WDMX devices can solve. It is very bulky to put a WAP and DMX node on a batten, but a simple WDMX box is easy. If you just wanted to go wireless from the console to a distribution center, using the standard networking approach might be more efficient as the console can send multiple universes over it's proprietary protocol (ETCNet or Strand ShowNet, etc.) to a DMX node.

[koncept]

i didn't think of where they would put the equipment, especialy if you were using higher powered antennas. as a point of clarification, you cannot plug dmx into a network jack, you will fry something, i was refereing to shownet, etcnet, etc to do something like that. in the one theatre I was in we used sn110 nodes and shownet for 90% of all of our dmx. it worked great and being that it was poe, we could drop network lines where ever we wanted and move the sn110 nodes as needed for shows. if I was doing a new install i would use shownet or etcnet to a 16 in-out opto isolator on my grid and then do drops from there to the battons and have a couple of drop box like items for specials. or get multiple network lines run following something similar to what was mentioned above

[Hughesie]

ethernet has packet checking
dmx doesn't, that's why you don't run pyro off it