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The current version of the ArtNet protocol supports 15-bit addresses and allows multiple con‐
verters to be connected. There is only one Net Switch and Sub Switch of a device and the phys‐
ical 8-channel interface of the device can be used as output or input accordingly. The lower 4
bits of the 15-bit address can be set accordingly. The default output address as well as the
input address of 8 interfaces is ‘0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7’ . This way, both devices – one as an 8-port
input and the other as an 8-port output – can be used as an 8-channel DMX signal repeater via
the network cable after setting the local IP address and destination IP address over the net‐
work connection.
If two devices are used simultaneously as an output or input, the interface address of the
second device can be set to ‘8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15’ and the Net Switch and Sub Switch of
both devices can be identical. To separate the physical interfaces when using more than three
devices, different Net Switches and Sub Switches must be set to have a unique 15-bit address
for each interface.
If eight interface addresses of the device match, they are treated as one interface. For example,
if Interface 1 and Interface 2 are set to 0x0000, the DMX data sent by the ArtNet controller to
the 0x0000 interface will be simultaneously transmitted to both interfaces.
For the sACN protocol, the interface address corresponds to the universe and the value for the
universe is the address of interface 1 and is then incremented with the interfaces (the universe
at interface 1 is 1, the universe at interface 2 is 2, etc.). The converter sends DMX data to the
appropriate interface associated with the universe in the sACN packets sent by the converter.
Interface address
Operating
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ArtNet DMX converter