RickR
Well-Known Member
Can some of you console gurus fill me in on an odd situation?
A touring LD brough his GrandMA to a multi-venue site where all the house fixtures were put in Universe 300+ and he couldn't control them. I wasn't around for the previous nights Hog issues, but it might have been the same thing. (For those keeping score, we dropped all the gateways down to a normal range and didn't need the dimmers. )
This 300 stuff was done for good and sound, but old reasons. The house Ion consoles use a sACN start of 300 so it just looks like U1, 2, 3, etc. (no pun intended) They really are just now moving into network control of the house gear, and lots of new fixtures! The best the GMA could do was up to U256. I'm aware that ArtNet was once restricted to 256, but was very surprised by the limit.
A touring LD brough his GrandMA to a multi-venue site where all the house fixtures were put in Universe 300+ and he couldn't control them. I wasn't around for the previous nights Hog issues, but it might have been the same thing. (For those keeping score, we dropped all the gateways down to a normal range and didn't need the dimmers. )
This 300 stuff was done for good and sound, but old reasons. The house Ion consoles use a sACN start of 300 so it just looks like U1, 2, 3, etc. (no pun intended) They really are just now moving into network control of the house gear, and lots of new fixtures! The best the GMA could do was up to U256. I'm aware that ArtNet was once restricted to 256, but was very surprised by the limit.
- Is there a real limit on a significant number of consoles?
- Is this only a range limit (any 256 you like)? The show had media stuff in low universes.
- Is this a price issue, they didn't pay enough? Remote processors, added licenses, etc.
- Is this a LD knowledge issue? I'm no Hog/ GMA wiz, but I hope some you are!