hi here's the news from enttec: DMX USB Pro Interface Features: • Micro processor enabled • 1500 V isolation (protect your computer from surges) • 1 Input & 1 Output connector (there is only one DMX port though) • Fully compatible with RDM • Internal frame buffering (will work on any PC) • Will talk at any comm's speed, so it will be completely compatible with any system for which the FTDI chip has drivers (Windows, OSX, Linux..) • Universe & user config EEPROM • simple API to: update DMX buffers, read incoming DMX, configure refresh rates ...
http://www.enttec.com/dmxusb_pro.php
so olaf, can you do something for us as osx will be ok with this interface...
dank-e nicolas
nicob wrote:
hi here's the news from enttec: DMX USB Pro Interface Features: • Micro processor enabled • 1500 V isolation (protect your computer from surges) • 1 Input & 1 Output connector (there is only one DMX port though) • Fully compatible with RDM • Internal frame buffering (will work on any PC) • Will talk at any comm's speed, so it will be completely compatible with any system for which the FTDI chip has drivers (Windows, OSX, Linux..) • Universe & user config EEPROM • simple API to: update DMX buffers, read incoming DMX, configure refresh rates ...
http://www.enttec.com/dmxusb_pro.php
so olaf, can you do something for us as osx will be ok with this interface...
I don't see the need to buy the new interface (since the old one works for me on _my_ Mac), but if you send me a test item I'd be happy to help. ;-)
I find the price too high, since a similar thing (on PC, not Mac) is available for free using the Parallel port (see http://manolator.place.cc/). In combination with a USB-parallel convertor you'd get nearly the same, although this might not work in Mac. From what I read in the Enttec mailing list this new thig seems to use a USB-parallel convertor chip as well (http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/FT245BM.htm)...
Olaf
Am 18.03.2005 um 20:13 schrieb Olaf Matthes:
nicob wrote:
hi here's the news from enttec: DMX USB Pro Interface Features: • Micro processor enabled • 1500 V isolation (protect your computer from surges) • 1 Input & 1 Output connector (there is only one DMX port though) • Fully compatible with RDM • Internal frame buffering (will work on any PC) • Will talk at any comm's speed, so it will be completely compatible with any system for which the FTDI chip has drivers (Windows, OSX, Linux..) • Universe & user config EEPROM • simple API to: update DMX buffers, read incoming DMX, configure refresh rates ... http://www.enttec.com/dmxusb_pro.php so olaf, can you do something for us as osx will be ok with this interface...
I don't see the need to buy the new interface (since the old one works for me on _my_ Mac), but if you send me a test item I'd be happy to help. ;-)
I find the price too high, since a similar thing (on PC, not Mac) is available for free using the Parallel port (see http://manolator.place.cc/). In combination with a USB-parallel convertor you'd get nearly the same, although this might not work in Mac. From what I read in the Enttec mailing list this new thig seems to use a USB-parallel convertor chip as well (http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/FT245BM.htm)...
a lightning technician told me last week that dmx will fade anytime soon anyway, the new standard seems to be artnet, a ethernet kind of light control.
although it says in this document that artnet will NOT replace DMX: http://www.artisticlicence.com/app%20notes/appnote013.pdf
would't it be much easier to output ArtNet though the ethernet port directly instead of using those USB to DMX controllers?
max
Le 18 mars 05, à 23:57, Max Neupert a écrit :
Am 18.03.2005 um 20:13 schrieb Olaf Matthes:
nicob wrote:
hi here's the news from enttec: DMX USB Pro Interface Features: • Micro processor enabled • 1500 V isolation (protect your computer from surges) • 1 Input & 1 Output connector (there is only one DMX port though) • Fully compatible with RDM • Internal frame buffering (will work on any PC) • Will talk at any comm's speed, so it will be completely compatible with any system for which the FTDI chip has drivers (Windows, OSX, Linux..) • Universe & user config EEPROM • simple API to: update DMX buffers, read incoming DMX, configure refresh rates ... http://www.enttec.com/dmxusb_pro.php so olaf, can you do something for us as osx will be ok with this interface...
I don't see the need to buy the new interface (since the old one works for me on _my_ Mac), but if you send me a test item I'd be happy to help. ;-)
I find the price too high, since a similar thing (on PC, not Mac) is available for free using the Parallel port (see http://manolator.place.cc/). In combination with a USB-parallel convertor you'd get nearly the same, although this might not work in Mac. From what I read in the Enttec mailing list this new thig seems to use a USB-parallel convertor chip as well (http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/FT245BM.htm)...
a lightning technician told me last week that dmx will fade anytime soon anyway, the new standard seems to be artnet, a ethernet kind of light control.
ethernet connection will not become a standard until a couple of years. evry lighting hardware uses dmx
although it says in this document that artnet will NOT replace DMX: http://www.artisticlicence.com/app%20notes/appnote013.pdf
would't it be much easier to output ArtNet though the ethernet port directly instead of using those USB to DMX controllers?
for all i saw, usbdmx is cheaper than ethernet/dmx but it can be cool to command dimmer with osc...
max
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