Entec Datagate

[jkumin]

There has been some back and forth in this thread about how many Art-Net universes an Enttec Datagate could chug if a Datagate could chug ether. Well, something like that.

I'm not an engineer, so let me say that I'm only half scratching the surface of the problem with my knowledge of the topic, but here's what I've been told. There seem to be two issues here. One is what does the specification say, and the other is what can you in reality do.

Art-Net's spec says 4 out and 4 in is the max per node. Enttec supports that. Some people have made applications where they use a non-standard version of Art-Net which ignores that spec, and it works. We don't want to say "sure, it's easy, call it 8 whenever you like" because that simply won't be reliably true across the board. That being understood, there are a lot of times when it's been known to work, but we'd rather be conservative in our claims and sometimes give people a bonus gift than claim miracles that only happen for some customers.

Does this clear things up a little for anyone?

Jeremy Kumin
Enttec US Sales and Marketing Manager

[samsc]

Art-Net's spec says 4 out and 4 in is the max per node. Enttec supports that. Some people have made applications where they use a non-standard version of Art-Net which ignores that spec, and it works.

jeremy - thats a software protocol spec- but for a manufacturer-

all you have to do is have two ip addresses for one box- its called multihoming in tcpip language - or even more than 2 - and you can support as many universes - from a single physical box - as you want without doing anything none standard -

this is what i believe other manufacturers such as luminex do.

Richard