DMXking artnet interface

[musht]

 

...for being crap.

 

Yes I have had very serious lag issues

 

Luckily I caught the issue during rehersals

 

 

Is there any straightforward test that can run on an Artnet node to see if it is liable to be troublesome?

[ceecrb1]

Use it...

 

since then I have bought a cheap LED par for at home... and I basically bombarded my pathport nodes with the 12 universes of DMX doing a continual pixel mapping for 24 hours with just my one led parcan.... Things similar to that..

 

I just kept an eye on it as much as I could looking for any changes/lag etc etc... bashed DBO every once in a while etc.

 

The "bad" units would lag even if just one led parcan was patched and static on one colour... you'd hit blackout and 9 out of 10 times it would be fine.... then once in a while a lag.. anything from half to 2 secconds.

 

 

I was only really comfortable using it on "big shows" after I tested it on a main touring show I do... Its just a cheap touring generic cover band for drunks during spanish fiestas... We can basically be the filler between Bull runs etc.

Its the kind of thing were yes, you do you're best but if something fails or you miss a cue, nobody realises and its "ok".. So I use it to test gear, test programming tecniques, test my arduino midi flashboxes etc etc etc

 

So for a few weeks I ran my RJ45 and also XLR.. I was running the show over artnet but ready to jump on stage and swap from artnet to standard DMX if there were any issues.

 

In the end I've stopped using artnet on that show, prurely because its just not neccessry and we deal with drunks and have no security.. its not where we take our best kit... Most night's I op my mq60 but some nights its laptop and magicdmx.... as the town may be "blacklisted" from past bad experienced.... so we use an old LS9 and analogue multicore....