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Yes, the DMX value for every address in all 4 universes is "0" when the board powers off. I need to get some kind of monitor device to look at the DMX values going through the system after the has shut down.

Alright, I tested this and it unfortunately had no effect.

I will try this when I get in tomorrow and see what it does. My best guess is that the problem has something to do with the lyntec or the way it connects/receives DMX. So this could be promising. I'll let you know if it has any effect.

We do have the power patched to the board, but we're way too old school to actually have a real preset panel. We have a one-button preset panel that only controls the house lights and has no way for us to reprogram. But yes, that would have been something to look at; I have made that mistake in...

That is a fairly easy solution, but I'm a huge fan of automation making life easier. But this or just turning off the master power on the lyntec is the immediate solution.

General I'm a student at a college theater, and we have an incredibly annoying problem where a random number of our intelligent lights will power up as soon as our lighting board turns off. Our SetupETC Eos Lighting Board Connects to an ETC Net3 Show Control Gateway Ancient ETC Dimmer Rack...

You make a lot of good points. We'll see how the budget plays out, but we might just get some DMX splitters and wireless DMX units. That way we don't have to break the bank, can get good equipment, and solve all of the current needs.

Yeah, we've gotten here by the past few generations of techies being rather incompetent (highschool 4 year rotations and such). And it's just now that we're really recovering and knowing what on earth we're doing. So last year was the first year we through intelligent fixtures into the mix. We...

Yes, that does have the potential to go rather wrong. But it's something that is extremely convenient to have. So the answer might be that during shows we just unplug cable connecting our network to anything else.It looks like most of the stuff pathway connectivity makes is meant for much...

Our system isn't really part of the building's system. We basically undermined the existing networking and built our own network on top of it (in a school, not just a theater, so it WOULD have a lot of traffic). Our (tech's) router is connected through a jack connected to one of the school...

Yeah, all of our things take DMX; our LEDs and various moving fixtures too. The reason we'd want ethernet distribution is not simplify THE SYSTEM, but to simplify its USE. Basically wiring backstage so that all of our dimmers have data is a pain because they're always moving and have lots of...

I know absolutely nothing about any ETC hardware that has the same purpose as artnet. I'd love to give it a look though, any suggestions?

Yeah, we looked into those. They're definitely a useful thing. BUT they're pretty pricey, and we still have to run fairly long runs of DMX. It'd cut down half of the cable (only there, no back). But it's not nearly as cheap as running ethernet (dirt cheap) and converting to DMX. Eventually a...

Yeah, that would probably be a better idea. We'd just be using it for things like the ground row and other cyc projections; the cyc isn't hung in the same place every show so we're always moving all of those lights. And wiring to get to them can be a pain.Yes, that helps a lot. We don't have...

No, that would be a huge difference if that's the way if worked. Because then it would mean we could set up a bunch of artnet universes, but each one would only have a few addresses. So by doing that we would go over the 2 universe limit, but we would never go over the 1024 address limit...