Hey, so I am not sure if this has been asked before and it's a really specific question that would be difficult to find via search.
The high school where I am TD just got a beautiful new 6 million dollar theater with a brand new ETC Element 60 with ETCNet3 run around to many different places in the theater and two nodes. The theater manager insists on keeping one down on the floor for running the lights we place on the floor which leaves one node for all of the (four) cats. I'm working on convincing him to let us just drop a DMX line to the floor instead, but he doesn't seem to want to run the theater that way for some reason.
Is there a relatively cheap alternative to buying the nodes (currently priced at $1000)? Would it be possible to set up a split network (so that one universe was sending/receiving DMX/RDM and the other was sending/receiving Art-Net or some other datatype), or is it an all-or-nothing deal?
Given the number of students in the cats, we're trying to keep the amount of cabling in the catwalks to a minimum, for safety concerns. Does anyone else have ideas as to what we could do to overcome such a small number of nodes? (The school district doesn't even want equipment from the old theater to come into the new theater, let alone buy new old equipment to put in there, so ebay and craigslist aren't really options.)
The high school where I am TD just got a beautiful new 6 million dollar theater with a brand new ETC Element 60 with ETCNet3 run around to many different places in the theater and two nodes. The theater manager insists on keeping one down on the floor for running the lights we place on the floor which leaves one node for all of the (four) cats. I'm working on convincing him to let us just drop a DMX line to the floor instead, but he doesn't seem to want to run the theater that way for some reason.
Is there a relatively cheap alternative to buying the nodes (currently priced at $1000)? Would it be possible to set up a split network (so that one universe was sending/receiving DMX/RDM and the other was sending/receiving Art-Net or some other datatype), or is it an all-or-nothing deal?
Given the number of students in the cats, we're trying to keep the amount of cabling in the catwalks to a minimum, for safety concerns. Does anyone else have ideas as to what we could do to overcome such a small number of nodes? (The school district doesn't even want equipment from the old theater to come into the new theater, let alone buy new old equipment to put in there, so ebay and craigslist aren't really options.)