EOS and DP8000

What I can find the DP8000 only take HogNet in... And the EOS consoles can't send that. So, no you can't do that.

The best way would be to have Response gateways that distribute the DMX, and have the DP8000 and the ION to feed sACN into them. If the DP8000 isn't needed to process more universes than the Hog4 console can do by it self, run pure sACN out of them in to the Response gateways. (I say only response because you get the most out of it with EOS with RDM)

So the DP8k communicates both over Artnet and sACN, I don’t see why it would be locked down to just Hognet, which for HOG4 is the not artnet etherternet port.  Right?

The DP in DP8000 stands for DMX Processor. What it is essentially doing is taking the HogNet commands and processing that for output on either the DMX ports or outputting on Art-Net/sACN. Unlike a gateway, it doesn't listen for incoming sACN or Art-Net to translate to the DMX outputs on its own.

However, if you have your Hog 4 console running and you connect your Ion XE to the same FixtureNet network as the DP8000, you can set the DP8000 to listen to an Art-Net universe and map that input to a HogNet universe. Then in your DMX Output window on the Hog 4 console, assign the addresses to Art-Net input.

See https://www.highend.com/pub/support/controllers/documents/HTML/en/sect-dmx_artnet_input.htm for more instructions on how to do this.

You would not be able to have concurrent control (Hog 4 and Ion XE) of the outputs, but you would be able to switch back and forth. The Hog console would still need to be on to act as the translator between the incoming Art-Net and the HogNet commands to the DP8000.

The DP in DP8000 stands for DMX Processor. What it is essentially doing is taking the HogNet commands and processing that for output on either the DMX ports or outputting on Art-Net/sACN. Unlike a gateway, it doesn't listen for incoming sACN or Art-Net to translate to the DMX outputs on its own.

However, if you have your Hog 4 console running and you connect your Ion XE to the same FixtureNet network as the DP8000, you can set the DP8000 to listen to an Art-Net universe and map that input to a HogNet universe. Then in your DMX Output window on the Hog 4 console, assign the addresses to Art-Net input.

See https://www.highend.com/pub/support/controllers/documents/HTML/en/sect-dmx_artnet_input.htm for more instructions on how to do this.

You would not be able to have concurrent control (Hog 4 and Ion XE) of the outputs, but you would be able to switch back and forth. The Hog console would still need to be on to act as the translator between the incoming Art-Net and the HogNet commands to the DP8000.

Starksk

Thanks for this response.  We'll try it out and let you know how it works.