7th Sense DeltaServer, User Manual

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MC258-2 Device Control with DeltaServer : User Guide © 2023 7thSense
Introduction
Introduction
DeltaServer offers a number of ways of controlling external devices, whether projectors, lighting,
stage and theatre effects machines, or playback devices including smart glasses, 3D synchronised
glasses and VR headsets.
See also: 7thConnect
A powerful, single application, used to connect multiple I/O feeds for use with Delta Media Server
system. Receive dynamic inputs to the Delta Timeline and send controls to switches over IP.
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7thConnect User Guide
Art-Net/DMX Control
DMX is a serial protocol used to control many lighting systems, bubble, and smoke machines and
other stage effects devices.
Art-Net is DMX over Ethernet, the protocol that DeltaServer uses to interface with external devices,
so we need to convert the Art-Net signal into DMX.
An Ethernet cable carries the Art-Net signal to and from a converter (e.g. Enttec box), which converts
to DMX over XLR cable to the first device: other DMX devices can then be connected in a serial /
daisy-chain format, one to the next.