Entec Datagate

[samsc]

is there a configuration menu to select 2.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x on the datagate?

whatever you do - you need to have the mac and the datagate both on the same - either 2.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x

[PerezLindo]

I have used datagate in a new installation , some problems appear using all 8 universes with same ip , I just upgrade it to last firmware & use NMU application to configure datagate, problem solved. NMU have a couple of tips , in mac version channels setting appear as "2" when in fact "512", in windows version that´s ok.
Gustavo.

[Mike Redmer]

we have one in the office...

first eastern, then...

[jkumin]

they have a horrible configuration menu system - one that you want to shoot yourself in the head after trying to configure.
and the web configuration is incomplete...you have to use the menus...
and their manual is not up to date with what they do.

they claim to not do all 8 outputs as artnet - but they do.
because we had them working in argentina.

seem to work.
had 6 of them driving 50 universes on a tv show.

You're right, the old way of configuring them by menu buttons on the face plate was tedious and confusing. We have a free utility now that does it very well now, however. It's easy to see what you have, and change what you need to, all on one screen. The Node Management Utility makes this former chore a breeze, and lets you save and load profiles to disk, too.

We'll work on that manual to reflect this. The datasheets on the Enttec Website already do. More about the art-net 8 streams issue in a later post.

Jeremy Kumin
Enttec US Sales and Marketing Manager

[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