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Linking Compulite desk into Eos Ti network

Next month we have an overseas Dance Company bringing a Compulite Spark Top lighting desk, which I need to link into our Eos Ti network.  We've done this in the past but I can't find my documentation about 1)how to link the desks, 2)how to patch the show into the Eos, and 3) how to keep certain background functions in the Eos. Any help is very much appreciated.

  • 0 in reply to ueliriegg
    Ueli, I'll have to find out about that. Compulite website lists the Spark series as discontinued.
  • 0 in reply to abctwhite
    in general it's one of those options:
    - either you find a network protocol that both consoles and your nodes have in common. you only keep the patch for the background functions in your Ti
    - you have a node that can convert dmx to network input and you do a clever thing with priorities.
    - you have a node that can convert dmx to network input and in the Ti you only keep the patch for the background functions.
    - the other console can do sACN and you use sACN input in the Ti's Show Control function to do something clever.
    - you have a node that can convert dmx to sACN and you use sACN input in the Ti's Show Control function to do something clever.

    in cases like these i prefer to have everything unpatched that needs to be controlled from the guest console. it makes everything so much simpler. alternatively you can make sure that you output zero on all channels that are not supposed to be controlled by the Ti. especially with multiparameter devices that can be a lot of work...
  • 0 in reply to ueliriegg
    Thanks again Ueli. No sACN from that 1990's desk.
    At our Theater they need to output 2 universes to House Dimmers, and a third to the data network for their Danor Eco Pars. If I can't get an ethernet signal to a Gateway 3 device, I'm feeling I might have to send all DMX out from the Spark and disconnect my desk completely (our ETC/LMI L86 dimmers are circa 1990 as well and will only accept signal from one source) I'll still have house and worklights on the house panel without conflict.
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