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USER’S MANUAL

Summary of Contents for CubeConnect

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Page 3: ...ver Modes CubeConnect Transceiver Interface 8 Basic Operation 11 Normal Input Mode 12 Locked Mode 13 DB9 Serial In Mode 15 Bluetooth In Mode 17 DMX In Mode 20 Wireless In Mode 21 CubeConnect Transceiv...

Page 4: ...nts 04 Your CubeConnect Dongle Product Description 27 What s In the Box 28 CubeConnect Dongle Modes CubeConnect Dongle Interface 29 Basic Operation 30 Network Operation 32 CubeConnect Dongle Support F...

Page 5: ...e Transceiver accepts lighting control commands input from DMX512 BlueTooth Limited Energy BLE or a Serial DB9 connection and sends the data back out on either the wireless antenna or on the DMX outpu...

Page 6: ...ss Out Bluetooth In Wireless DMX Out Wireless In DMX Out DMX OUT ANTENNA CUBE WIRELESS IN DMX Out ANTENNA CUBE IPHONE APP CUBE WITH DONGLE CUBE WITH DONGLE ANTENNA CUBE CUBE WITH DONGLE NOTE When usin...

Page 7: ...What s In the Box 07 CubeConnect Transceiver Power Supply...

Page 8: ...n DMX Out BlueTooth In Wireless DMX Out DMX In Wireless Out Dongle Pair Wireless Out DB9 Serial In Wireless DMX Out LEARN Button LEARN indicator Channel 1 Diagnostic Channel 2 Diagnostic Channel 3 Dia...

Page 9: ...ative techniques can be implemented to maximize the CubeConnect performance when many fixtures are being controlled Doubling up fixtures addresses will help minimize propagation delay Shows can also b...

Page 10: ...10 CubeConnect Compression Propagation...

Page 11: ...rotocol Data sent to the BlueTooth Module or DB9 Serial input must conform to the MINI SSC protocol which is sent out at the standard 9600 baud rate Make sure you are sending data to the same channel...

Page 12: ...the Radio Antenna and the DMX out connector unless in DMX input mode CH1 CH2 CH3 CH254 DMX IN or BLUETOOTH IN or DB9 SERIAL IN or WIRELESS IN NORMAL INPUT MODE OPERATION RADIO ANTENNA Radio antenna se...

Page 13: ...volatile memory Thus if you leave the Transceiver in an INPUT MODE and power cycle it all the channel data in the BUFFER will be lost and would need to be re sent to be valid again CH1 CH2 CH3 CH254 L...

Page 14: ...CKED MODE all data sent out to the wireless antenna and the DMX OUT connector is based on the data saved in the EEPROM Additionally none of the data input sources are actively receiving new data into...

Page 15: ...n sending data to the Transceiver must send the characters so that they conform to the MINI SSC Protocol which is sent out at the standard 9600 baud rate The Transceiver is programmed to listen for ch...

Page 16: ...hat light to full on 100 on would be CHARACTER 2 CHARACTER 3 CHARACTER 1 255 Sync Marker 1 Channel 254 Intensity Setting The MINI SSC Command to turn the Green LEDs channel 2 of the same fixture to 50...

Page 17: ...DMX data is generated when the MINI SSC commands are used and the LOCKED MODE can be commanded on and off with the application Bluetooth In App to Transceiver Conforms to UL Stds 1573 8750 INPUT 90 2...

Page 18: ...s made up of three parts The first part of the string is a single character that denotes the color channel number that is being adjusted It must be lower case and can only be a r g b or w which corres...

Page 19: ...e enable the MINI SSC commands reset the four color channels to zero by using the simple serial commands or power cycle the Transceiver Power cycling the Transceiver sets the four color channels contr...

Page 20: ...he standard 9600 baud 8N1 serial data settings At these settings the MINI SSC output method cannot transmit the 254 channels at the same data rate as they come in on the DMX512 input The microprocesso...

Page 21: ...T connector The only difference is that the input data in this case is on the wireless antenna When a Transceiver is used as a DMX End Point i e Wireless IN DMX Out Mode it should be paired to the sen...

Page 22: ...nna connector from the PCB unscrew the antenna and move the antenna to the new location Plug in connector and re install cover The wireless antenna can be mounted in two locations on the enclosure 1 O...

Page 23: ...time for the Master based on how many Slaves are present If there are two Transceivers present the Master transmits first the Slave listens for Master to be done transmitting and then the Slave trans...

Page 24: ...Master Slave settings the Transceiver must be hard powered from off to on while the MODE SELECT BUTTON is held in When you do this two things will happen 1 The top two MODE LEDS will illuminate indic...

Page 25: ...ollowing procedure 1 Put the Slave the Transceiver that you are going to learn into Wireless IN DMX Out mode 2 Put the unit the Slave will be listening to into DONGLE PAIR mode 3 Make sure these are t...

Page 26: ...en and be controlled by multiple Transceivers and data reception will be unreliable NOTE When pairing a Dongle to a Transceiver be sure to have only the Transceiver being used for pairing turned on an...

Page 27: ...scavenges power from the MIRO Cube or BRAQ Cube DMX IN connector and as a result no power adapter is necessary The radio technology used is not compatible with other wireless DMX products as it uses a...

Page 28: ...What s In the Box 28 CubeConnect Wireless Dongle...

Page 29: ...etwork Mode Off On Slide Switch LED Power Learn Indicator Neutrik 5 pin XLR Plugs into MIRO BRAQ Pin Layout Pin 1 ground Pin 2 D1 Power for Dongle Pin 3 D1 Power for Dongle Pin 4 D2 Data from Dongle P...

Page 30: ...e menu choice Put the MIRO BRAQ into Serial Mode Set the Serial Address to the desired fixture address Addressing in Serial Mode is similar to addressing in DMX mode With a 4C fixture the selected add...

Page 31: ...mode Begin sending DMX commands to channels 1 2 3 and 4 The MIRO BRAQ Cube with the Dongle should respond to the DMX being sent to the Transceiver accordingly When power is first applied it may take...

Page 32: ...ssary If multiple Transceivers are necessary there are setup functions built into the Transceivers to insure that they won t interfere with each other See the users guide for Transceivers for more inf...

Page 33: ...eiver that is still in use and within range of the dongle 5 Push and hold the LEARN PUSH BUTTON for a full 12 seconds The Dongle power LED will turn off while the switch is held 6 Release the LEARN SW...

Page 34: ...gle will only listen to a paired Transceiver and will ignore all other data Care must be taken because Dongles do not automatically clear previous pair settings when a new pairing is established Dongl...

Page 35: ...erence when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with this user s guid...

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