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OlliR
06-03-2008, 12:08 PM
I just had a meeting with the developers from SchnickSchnackSystems and we are pleased to announce that Software Version V1.7 for the System PSU 4E and the LED-panel C100 successfuly supports unicast Artnet communication.

While testing the setup we came along a few points that could get improved in the Catalyst / Pixlemad GUI:

If an input or output universe is not implemented in the node, Catalyst shows a "0" for this universe. This might get mixed up with the universe "0"... Maybe show a dash (-) or an x for these not implemented universes.

When setting up a larger system with unicast it might be a nice option to automatically configure the universe - unicast IP address settings - as information which universe can be found on which IP address is given by ArtReply.
Background: If nodes use the default IP address as described in the Artnet protocol rather than a manually set IP address it would save a bunch of work setting up the system.

It would be a nice feature if the Artnet Device window would also display the firmware version of the node as given in ArtReply - would be easy to make up old software in your system.

Last but not least one question: The status message shown in the Artnet Device window seems to be the NodeReport string - but we were not sure on this as in DMW-Workshop it was also shown as "status" - but Status in ArtReply is defined as one byte with different flags that should default to zero...

I hope some of this makes sense to you.

Cheers,