Stagecraft Digest in a search would prove a wealth of information on the subject.
On books,
Recommended Practice for
DMX: A Guide for Users and Installers, by Adam Bennette;
PLASA and
USITT 1994
would be the
manual on the subject though it's TBA or now updated. Check with
USITT on the update.
Also some newer books that should have some amount of info:
The Speed of Light, Linda Essig, - Review of the
book: "covers the development of
DMX512 (though not at the bits & bytes
level) as well as computer control and automated lighting and the impact these technological advances have on our industry." - Mitch Hefter
ESTA /
USITT DMX Revision (
ANSI BSR E1.11) Task Group Chair
USITT Engineering Vice-Commissioner,
DMX512 Subcommittee Chair
After this, lots of good or new books on the subject or having to do with it. These are the ones I note beyond others might be of use to look at.
The Automated Lighting
Programmer’s Handbook. By
Brad Schiller
Computerized Lightboards
Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business 2nd Ed, by James L. Moody; Focal Press ISBN: 0-240-82934
Control Systems For Live Entertainment 2nd Ed., by John Huntington; Focal Press - Newton, MA. 1994 ISBN: 0-240-80177-6
Focus on Lighting Technology by Richard Cadena, ISBN: #1-904031-14-5
Let There Be Light: Entertainment Lighting Software Pioneers in Conversion, by Robert Bell.
Lighting Control Technology and Applications 2nd Ed. Robert Simpson, Lighting Control Systems ISBN #0-240-51566-8
Lighting Control by Robert Simpson
Lighting Technology 2nd ed. by Brian Fitt, ISBN #0-240-51651-6
Lighting and the Design Idea, 2nd ed. by Wadsworth/Thomson.
A PracticalGuide to
Stage Lighting, by Steven Louis Shelley Focal Press Boston 1999 ISBN: 0-240-80353-1
Recommended Practice for
Ethernet Cabling Systems, In Entertainment Lighting Applications,
ESTA Publications.
Stage Step - Dist. #TE3011
Stage Lighting Controls, Uif Sandström; MPG Books Ltd. - Bodmin, Cornwall 1997 ISBN: 0240514769