We had a client in the US that did a 200 universe !!!! display with datagates, and it worked fine too, there was no visible lag between any of the outputs.
Unicast isn't a problem and scales very...
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We had a client in the US that did a 200 universe !!!! display with datagates, and it worked fine too, there was no visible lag between any of the outputs.
Unicast isn't a problem and scales very...
Yes, I know and we fell in that trap too.
First versions of the datagate firmware would die if you send more than 12 universes, it never came to us people would be broadcasting 40 universes of...
Packet loss can happen anywhere, it's impossible to make sure it never happens.
A switch will drop packets, the nodes can drop it if 2 packets arrive too close to each other or it get's busy .......
Richard
This is how we test, and we haven't seen any problems with unicast.
If someone, has experienced differently please contact me
Nicolas
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That's one of the main problems with DMX over Ethernet systems such as Artnet. It's UDP, so packets can get lost and if they do it can have devastating visual effects as we all know. Murphy's law...
Olli
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with our Datagate, there are a couple of things I'd like to clear up, so hopefully people using our gear will have everything working as they want it...