Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
January 20th, 2026
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Replies: 7
Views: 51,161
I believe that the correct intent is to collect...
I believe that the correct intent is to collect all the queued messages first and then after that you'll receive any status messages. If you determine it is more important to return a status message...
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
January 9th, 2026
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Replies: 1
Views: 888
With SUPPORTED PARAMETERS ENHANCED if you have...
With SUPPORTED PARAMETERS ENHANCED if you have the Non-Identical Sub-Device Flag set then each sub-device queried can return a separate list of PIDs and they would only be the list of PIDs supported...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
September 28th, 2025
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Replies: 10
Views: 14,350
Welcome to the RDM forums.
Depending on the...
Welcome to the RDM forums.
Depending on the design of your product I would suggest you'll have the best user experience by periodically caching the information that may be requested so that it is...
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
September 17th, 2024
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Replies: 1
Views: 9,312
Hey Qasi,
These are some of the new...
Hey Qasi,
These are some of the new parameter messages that will be in an updated revised version of ANSI E1.20 that we are nearing completion on.
Thanks
Scott
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
August 2nd, 2024
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Replies: 4
Views: 35,633
Hey Milton,
I generally try to write very...
Hey Milton,
I generally try to write very permissive responders so that even if something is not strictly following the standard I can be accepting of it so it doesn't look like the product is...
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
June 25th, 2024
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Replies: 2
Views: 42,573
Alright...
#1. Why would you ever want to...
Alright...
#1. Why would you ever want to do this?
#2. If you have seen another product doing this, please share details so we can try reaching out to them.
#3. Doing this is playing with...
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Forum: RDMnet (E1.33) General Discussion
May 15th, 2024
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Replies: 3
Views: 61,236
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Forum: RDMnet (E1.33) General Discussion
May 14th, 2024
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Replies: 3
Views: 61,236
Hi Andy,
Welcome to the RDM Forums. I'm...
Hi Andy,
Welcome to the RDM Forums. I'm not familiar with the Showtec units but I'm really not seeing any indication at all in the user guide that this unit supports RDM (other than the one...
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Forum: RDMnet (E1.33) General Discussion
March 7th, 2023
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Replies: 4
Views: 41,567
Hey Rob, welcome to the forums!
LLRP is ONLY...
Hey Rob, welcome to the forums!
LLRP is ONLY meant to be used as a rescue protocol for devices that have incorrect network settings or settings that prevent them from establishing a TCP connection...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
January 13th, 2022
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Replies: 8
Views: 52,788
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
January 13th, 2022
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Replies: 8
Views: 52,788
Welcome to the forums!
A couple random...
Welcome to the forums!
A couple random thoughts of things I've ran into before to also check:
- Could be a timing issue in the response. Make sure everything is within the right timing...
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
September 8th, 2021
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Replies: 2
Views: 41,224
Matthias,
Welcome to the forums! ...
Matthias,
Welcome to the forums! PRODUCT_DETAIL_ARC was meant to denote the source in the fixture is using an Arc source, such as carbon arc, xenon lamp, HID, etc...
Most moving lights of...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
April 17th, 2021
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Replies: 7
Views: 56,505
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
April 17th, 2021
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Replies: 7
Views: 56,505
Thierry,
It does take a bit to wrap your...
Thierry,
It does take a bit to wrap your head around. Here's a couple previous threads on it where I've given some detailed examples that I think should be useful in understanding the...
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
April 11th, 2021
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Replies: 3
Views: 50,653
Fish,
You raised some very good questions. ...
Fish,
You raised some very good questions. These are questions we will need to clarify in a future revision to the standard.
I went back to Wayne Howell who wrote that portion of the original...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
January 31st, 2021
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Replies: 2
Views: 55,236
Jim,
E1.37-5 is getting ready to go back out...
Jim,
E1.37-5 is getting ready to go back out to Public Review in the next couple months. Interesting suggestion on the HELP PID. I'm hoping that the Parameter Description JSON functionality will...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
November 20th, 2020
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Replies: 1
Views: 46,397
Welcome to the forums Thierry.
I would...
Welcome to the forums Thierry.
I would suggest using the ENDPOINT_TO_UNIVERSE PID from E1.37-7. You will also want to support the ENDPOINT_LIST PID as well for controllers that may be expecting...
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Forum: RDMnet (E1.33) General Discussion
October 24th, 2020
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Replies: 3
Views: 34,854
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Forum: RDMnet (E1.33) General Discussion
October 24th, 2020
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Replies: 3
Views: 34,854
Hello, welcome to the RDM forums!
There are...
Hello, welcome to the RDM forums!
There are no licensing requirements related to the RDM protocol itself (ANSI E1.20). You are free to market and distribute anything you develop as you see fit,...
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Forum: RDMnet (E1.33) General Discussion
July 3rd, 2020
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Replies: 3
Views: 33,278
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
January 2nd, 2020
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Replies: 2
Views: 48,141
Fraser,
Very cool! It would be awesome to...
Fraser,
Very cool! It would be awesome to see you add emulation of RDMnet Devices in the future to it as that could be a lot of use as people are beginning their RDMnet development.
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
December 9th, 2019
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Replies: 4
Views: 65,053
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
November 4th, 2019
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Replies: 2
Views: 47,965
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
November 4th, 2019
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Replies: 1
Views: 43,888
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Forum: RDMnet (E1.33) General Discussion
September 4th, 2019
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Replies: 0
Views: 32,074
RDMnet Introduction Webinar
For those interested in learning about RDMnet there is an introductory Webinar that was recently produced by the co-chairs of the RDMnet Task Group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGfF5XfOnj8
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Forum: RDMnet (E1.33) General Discussion
September 4th, 2019
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Replies: 0
Views: 32,847
ESTA Announces Release of RDMnet (ANSI E1.33)
ESTA Announces ANSI Approval of RDMnet!
ESTA’s Technical Standards Program (TSP) announced today that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved E1.33 RDMnet as an American...
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
July 30th, 2019
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Replies: 6
Views: 67,555
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
July 27th, 2019
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Replies: 6
Views: 67,555
Rory,
Welcome to the RDM forums!
Yes,...
Rory,
Welcome to the RDM forums!
Yes, you can definitely have multiple secondary slots pointing to the same primary. It can be quite common on moving lights with gobo wheels and color systems...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
March 5th, 2019
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Replies: 9
Views: 87,687
Yes, this has always been my belief from past...
Yes, this has always been my belief from past experiences coupled with the TDR tests ESTA did many years ago studying the effects of difference cables types and connections.
Those studies can be...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
March 5th, 2019
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Replies: 9
Views: 87,687
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
December 17th, 2018
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Replies: 19
Views: 95,842
It's also worth noting that the current public...
It's also worth noting that the current public review document for the E1.20 revision has the following language added to IDENTIFY_DEVICE
"Once Identify is enabled it should remain active until...
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
December 15th, 2018
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Replies: 16
Views: 89,209
Mike, welcome to the forums!
There's two...
Mike, welcome to the forums!
There's two issues here. If the Footprint is zero then that means the Start Address PID is probably not a supported PID. The language in the current version of RDM...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
December 13th, 2018
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Replies: 19
Views: 95,842
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
December 12th, 2018
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Replies: 19
Views: 95,842
Hey Majid,
You're fine up until step 4. ...
Hey Majid,
You're fine up until step 4. You're going to have problems in that case because the vast majority of the time you will have RDM commands interleaved between the DMX packets. This...
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
November 14th, 2018
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Replies: 8
Views: 63,777
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
November 14th, 2018
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Replies: 8
Views: 63,777
Hey Shawn,
Welcome to the RDM forums! It's...
Hey Shawn,
Welcome to the RDM forums! It's a good question and you are likely to get different answers from different people. The standard is not specific about order things must be validated...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
September 28th, 2018
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Replies: 28
Views: 119,484
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
September 26th, 2018
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Replies: 3
Views: 54,158
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
August 22nd, 2018
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Replies: 28
Views: 119,484
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
August 20th, 2018
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Replies: 28
Views: 119,484
First off you will need to register for a...
First off you will need to register for a Manufacturer ID to be able to then generate your own Unique ID from it. They are free to register and details are available here: ...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
August 20th, 2018
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Replies: 1
Views: 57,109
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
August 17th, 2018
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Replies: 28
Views: 119,484
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
August 14th, 2018
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Replies: 28
Views: 119,484
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Forum: E1.31/sACN General Discussion
July 21st, 2018
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Replies: 0
Views: 42,117
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Forum: RDM User Discussion
July 21st, 2018
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Replies: 1
Views: 86,421
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
June 8th, 2018
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Replies: 4
Views: 63,985
Welcome to the forums. There are a number of...
Welcome to the forums. There are a number of people here that have implemented Proxies so they can help answer your questions. Technically for a Proxy you just have to set the flag and support the...
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
May 14th, 2018
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Replies: 4
Views: 61,378
Sandor,
Just to add another voice here I...
Sandor,
Just to add another voice here I agree with all of Eric's responses.
On item #1 there is a lot of differing feelings on this and it is very implementation specific. My opinion on it...
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
May 13th, 2018
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Replies: 7
Views: 51,161
Yes, that is correct. The intent of this is to...
Yes, that is correct. The intent of this is to reduce the amount of polling needed so QUEUED_MESSAGEs are sent only to the root device and the response can be either from the root or the sub-device...
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Forum: RDM Timing Discussion
December 30th, 2017
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Replies: 2
Views: 49,163
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
December 14th, 2017
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Replies: 19
Views: 113,535
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
November 3rd, 2017
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Replies: 5
Views: 58,949
Majid, Welcome to the forums!
Yes, there is...
Majid, Welcome to the forums!
Yes, there is only 1 set of personalities. I would take caution in how you implement this as having a large number of combinations/personalities will make it much...
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Forum: RDM User Discussion
November 1st, 2017
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Replies: 3
Views: 53,162
Welcome! There are a lot of timings that are...
Welcome! There are a lot of timings that are very specific for DMX512 and even more so for RDM that it's unlikely you would be able to reliably use a generic RS485 repeater. There are very specific...
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Forum: RDM User Discussion
September 15th, 2017
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Replies: 3
Views: 39,008
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Forum: RDM Physical Layer/Hardware Discussion
September 13th, 2017
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Replies: 2
Views: 42,363
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
September 5th, 2017
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Replies: 3
Views: 59,800
Welcome to the forums. There are no official...
Welcome to the forums. There are no official restrictions on the logo usage. However, I would strongly suggest you not mark or brand them with anything "RDM" unless they fully support the protocol....
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Forum: DMX512 Discussion
June 19th, 2017
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Replies: 2
Views: 34,191
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
May 30th, 2017
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Replies: 9
Views: 84,642
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Forum: RDM Marketplace Discussion
March 17th, 2017
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Replies: 2
Views: 49,894
Joe, welcome to the RDM forums! I've not had...
Joe, welcome to the RDM forums! I've not had much specific experience with the Swisson RDM test units myself, but someone else on the forums here may have and can comment.
It sounds like you...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
January 12th, 2017
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Replies: 4
Views: 58,359
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
January 12th, 2017
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Replies: 4
Views: 58,359
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Forum: RDM User Discussion
December 13th, 2016
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Replies: 4
Views: 43,127
Correct, the decoder reports the...
Correct, the decoder reports the status/configuration of itself back to the Controller. The decoder has no knowledge of what is actually connected to its PWM outputs as you said since it is just...
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Forum: RDM User Discussion
December 13th, 2016
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Replies: 4
Views: 43,127
Welcome!
Both ends have to support RDM....
Welcome!
Both ends have to support RDM. You have to have support for it in both the controller and in the device for it to work. Additionally, if you have any DMX Splitters in-line they...
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Forum: RDM User Discussion
October 11th, 2016
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Replies: 2
Views: 40,615
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Forum: RDM User Discussion
October 11th, 2016
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Replies: 2
Views: 40,615
Edit:
After looking at the current...
Edit:
After looking at the current release notes for the GrandMA it looks like they have recently added RDM support into their console. You would need to make sure that RDM is enabled in the...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
October 8th, 2016
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Replies: 3
Views: 59,552
The specific command is IDENTIFY_DEVICE. It is...
The specific command is IDENTIFY_DEVICE. It is all documented in the standard itself as to how the protocol all works. Every controller presents it differently to the user depending on the design...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
October 8th, 2016
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Replies: 3
Views: 59,552
All RDM devices have a UID preprogrammed into...
All RDM devices have a UID preprogrammed into them that is like a unique electronic serial number. This is how they are discovered by an RDM Controller.
The DMX Address of the device can be...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
July 22nd, 2016
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Replies: 9
Views: 71,933
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
July 22nd, 2016
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Replies: 9
Views: 71,933
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
June 30th, 2016
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Replies: 5
Views: 62,420
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Forum: RDM Interpretation Questions
February 24th, 2016
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Replies: 3
Views: 54,772
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Forum: RDM Marketplace Discussion
February 5th, 2016
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Replies: 2
Views: 43,763
Welcome to the RDM forums!
It really will...
Welcome to the RDM forums!
It really will depend on the architectural controller you are using. You'll need one that supports RDM and allows for a remote connection. If you're using something...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
February 3rd, 2016
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Replies: 28
Views: 119,484
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
February 2nd, 2016
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Replies: 4
Views: 60,002
We are constantly developing new RDM PIDs...
We are constantly developing new RDM PIDs (messages) to add different functionality. What you're requesting is something that has been discussed in the past, it is certainly something that we are...
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Forum: RDM General Implementation Discussion
January 31st, 2016
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Replies: 4
Views: 60,002
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Forum: RDM Timing Discussion
May 27th, 2015
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Replies: 10
Views: 68,203
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