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Old September 29th, 2021   #2
Thierry Dupont
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Hi Everyone,


We are facing the same issue not on a controller side but on our node implementation for our profile fixture range. We do work on ARTNET/RDM :RDMNet being nor ready and MANET/ETC NET are proprietary protocol.

We have about 60 PIDs implementation and we are going to limit the RDM data transfert to 16 fixtures to prevent long discovery. 16 units on a pipe is quite a large number already. We have seen that a lot of high end nodes do have an incremental discovery and you can remove it during the show but you would loose the possibility in this case to monitor if all your fixtures are present. Some manufacturers have a not so incremental discovery and a lot of traffic is generated.
We might take the view of the post above and offering the possibility to have RDM incremental on and off probably on a control channel, display, RDM manufacturer pid and web interface that we have also.
Anyone here who implemented this on a node?...we believe that no one yet implemented this on a fixture.


We tested so far 3 major lighting console brand and we have 3 flavours of RDM implementations and discovery is part of this. Also they do not treat RDM the same when they use a DMX line and an ARTNET/RDM network.
It is all part of the fun.
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