Control options
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Control options
You can control the MAC Aura XIP using DMX and/or Martin P3 protocol. The fixture auto-senses the type
of data that it is receiving and will respond correctly with no need for manual protocol selection.
The following options are available:
• DMX control over standard DMX cable connected to the fixture’s 5-pin XLR connectors.
• DMX control using Art-Net over Ethernet cable connected to the fixture’s etherCON connectors.
• DMX control using streaming ACN over Ethernet cable connected to the fixture’s etherCON connectors.
• DMX control over DMX cable and P3 video data over Ethernet cable.
• P3 video data with embedded DMX commands over Ethernet cable. If you connect DMX / Art-Net / sACN
to the P3 system controller, the controller can merge the DMX commands into the P3 signal and send
them to the fixture over Ethernet.
The P3 Mix DMX channels let you choose how the fixture should behave if it receives both DMX data and
P3 video data. You can use the P3 video pixel data to control the intensity and/or the color of the fixture’s
output with real-time control.
Fail-safe connection
The MAC Aura XIP has a fail-safe network connection. If the fixture loses power or if you shut it down, it will
continue to relay an Ethernet signal, and the Art-Net / sACN / P3 signal to the other networked fixtures in the
daisy chain will not be interrupted.
Data rate
Any Ethernet switch used to relay Art-Net, streaming ACN or P3 data to the MAC Aura XIP must be capable
of running at 10/100 Mbps speed, as the fixture does not support Gigabit Ethernet data rates.
DMX
The MAC Aura XIP accepts a DMX-512A data signal.
DMX setup
The DMX address, also known as the start channel, is the first channel used to receive instructions from the
controller. For independent control, each fixture must be assigned its own control channels. If you give two
fixtures of the same type the same address, they will behave identically. Address sharing can be useful for
diagnostic purposes and symmetrical control, particularly when combined with the inverse pan and tilt
options.
DMX addressing is limited to make it impossible to set the DMX address so high that you are left without
enough control channels for the fixture.
To set the fixture’s DMX address:
1. Press MENU to open the main menu. Scroll to
DMX SETUP
.
2. Press ENTER to enter the
DMX ADDRESS
menu, then scroll to the desired address and press ENTER
to save.
DMX modes
The
CONTROL MODE
menu lets you set the MAC Aura XIP to one of the fixture’s four DMX operating
modes:
•
Compact Mode
offers 8-bit control of the strobe/shutter, color temperature, green-magenta shift, virtual
color wheel, fixture control/settings and PWM frequency. It also offers 16-bit control of the global dimmer,
global RGB color mixing, zoom, pan and tilt.
•
Basic Mode
offers all the effects of Compact Mode plus 8-bit control of fading between Beam DMX and
P3 video control, FX selection, adjustment and synchronization, global Aura backlight, Aura RGB color
