I've opened my ETC Ion and took out my dongle. Placed it in a Macbook. In the ETC Ion i have 1024 outputs, on a Macbook i have 6144 outputs. How is this possible and why??????
I've opened my ETC Ion and took out my dongle. Placed it in a Macbook. In the ETC Ion i have 1024 outputs, on a Macbook i have 6144 outputs. How is this possible and why??????
It gets more confusing. When adding a 6.000 parameter Nomad dongle to a 1024 parameter licensed Ion gives a total system count of 4096.
i'm not aware of all the details, but i think this (certainly among other things) depends on the Eos software version: the same dongle unlocks different amounts in different versions, but the differents i've seen were 512 or 1024 rather than 5000. do the Ion and the mac run the same version?
The software versions are the same, Both my Macbook and my Ion (which had a new upgraded motherboard and windows version) are running 3.1.4. The dongle is exactly the same. I asked to someone at ETC. They say the Ion is limited because i bought it like that. If I want an upgrade (which they gave for free for the separate dongle i bought a couple of years ago) I have to contact my local dealer. :-)
There are some complicated reasons behind the scenes, but Eos always knows which device it is running on, and calculates the licensing based on that device. Many years ago, we moved from licensing in 1k increments to "base" and "unlocked." So your console was purchased at 1024, but your Nomad sees that as "unlocked" and gives you Nomad's maximum capacity.
While it will generally function, we do not officially support the removal of the license key from a console to be used on other devices, so this behavior will continue. Enjoy the free additional outputs on your Nomad :)
Thanks for the answer, but it didn't really help me that much. I wanted know why there is a difference in number of outputs between a Ion (1024) and a separate dongle (back then 1024 now 6144) i bought. I don't know why ETC changed the number of outputs to 6144 for a separate dongle with the use of Nomad software and not for an Ion. I really appreciate the upgrade in outputs i got for the separate dongle.It just feels a little illogical that a device (Ion) i bought for 5 x the price of a separate dongle has 6x less outputs.
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