Ventuz with DMX4ALL

[Daniel Willer]

Since there is no support for DMX cards in Ventuz 3 I've played around with the StageProfi 1.1 from DMX4All and thanks to Tobi S. came to success by just sending the right ASCII commands over TCP.
A small sample project is attached.

Stay tuned!

[Andre Bellmann]

AAAAAAND :

I am happy to inform you that everyone who mentions that he is a Ventuz user receives a 15% Discount on DMX4ALL products !

Cheeeers

André

[chriss0212]

hi daniel

thx for the scene.....will check it next time in the office

but i thinkt you can replace the expresion (int1 < 10 ? "00"+Convert.ToString(int1) : int1 < 100 ? 0+Convert.ToString(int1) :Convert.ToString(int1)) by changing the input {2} of the to text node to {2:000}

greetz

chris

[Daniel Willer]

Oh, yes your right. Damn .Net string formatting I always forget about it.

[TobiTobsen]

You are welcome, but it was Chriss K. Device and idea . I usually take what I need from his office .
Great, thanks for the discount Andre, good salesman .

But still I think that it can be annoying that ventuz really starts making problems as soon as the tcp client is not reachable... I think there is some headroom for improving this node...?

Cheers,
Tobi

[chriss0212]

hi tobi

i allready posted the "bug" in the bug thread because its not only a dmx issue

greetz

chriss

[TobiTobsen]

Hey Chriss,
yes I know, I just wanted to adress it here again... .

Cheers,
Tobi

[TobiTobsen]

It works also quite well with the USB to DMX Node (its cheaper and you avoid using the TCP/IP node). The driver emulates a virtual com port using the ftdi drivers.
You can send the same commands via Serial Port to the Virtual Com Port, just like with the LAN to DMX converter.

But I am wondering, the Serial Node is throwing a lot of exceptions saying "Error receiving Data: The Operation has timed out"...
so how can I teach the node not trying to receive sth?

Cheers,
Tobi

[TobiTobsen]

Hi,
while working more with the Serial out, I have the problem that each time I am sending a message, the node generates a few error Messages saying that he failed to read input from the ser port.
In fact I do not need any feedback from the port so its quite annoying and I think it really slows down the system.
Any ideas?

Cheers,
Tobi