First a bit of background - RDMnet or E1.33 is an industry standard protocol for transporting RDM data over the network (unlike the current situation where most manufacturers have a non-standardized way of doing this, e.g. ETC has Net3, it's somewhat handled in Artnet, and so on).
The RDMnet standard was ratified by ESTA late last year. Here at ETC we are keen proponents of industry standards so we are planning to implement RDMnet, but like any big change it will take some time.
The first place you will see RDMnet implemented will be in the Response Mk2 gateways and in Concert. We will support RDMnet in parallel with our existing Net3 method so we will retain compatibility across the board.
Once we have that solution up and working, we will begin rolling out support to the rest of our product line including consoles.
Since this is all in development I can't give you a definite timeline for anything; however I can say we hope to have an RDMnet enabled version of software for the Response Mk2 DMX gateways and Concert before the end of this year.
We are hoping that RDMnet will achieve good acceptance within the industry - to help with that we are providing the underlying software for free, which is at https://github.com/ETCLabs/RDMnet if you are interested in the under-the-hood workings of this.
First a bit of background - RDMnet or E1.33 is an industry standard protocol for transporting RDM data over the network (unlike the current situation where most manufacturers have a non-standardized way of doing this, e.g. ETC has Net3, it's somewhat handled in Artnet, and so on).
The RDMnet standard was ratified by ESTA late last year. Here at ETC we are keen proponents of industry standards so we are planning to implement RDMnet, but like any big change it will take some time.
The first place you will see RDMnet implemented will be in the Response Mk2 gateways and in Concert. We will support RDMnet in parallel with our existing Net3 method so we will retain compatibility across the board.
Once we have that solution up and working, we will begin rolling out support to the rest of our product line including consoles.
Since this is all in development I can't give you a definite timeline for anything; however I can say we hope to have an RDMnet enabled version of software for the Response Mk2 DMX gateways and Concert before the end of this year.
We are hoping that RDMnet will achieve good acceptance within the industry - to help with that we are providing the underlying software for free, which is at https://github.com/ETCLabs/RDMnet if you are interested in the under-the-hood workings of this.
I would love to see more RDM integration as well. Right now RDM is integrated in Eos as a proprietary protocol because it only works with Net3 nodes. It should be possible to exchange RDM data via nodes from other vendors (such as Pathway, Obsidian, or ELC)
