DP 8000

Yes, you must downgrade the software in your DP8K if you wish to use it a H3 Family console.
The desk should tell and ask you if you want to downgrade the 8K as it should see a node on the network in the wrong software.

So the dmx processor is on idle on this road hog full boar and not spitting out dmx.
Thoughts?

Looks like you only have the internal dp running.
If you had an external it would have two nodes listed under the dmx processor header.

thought I made a different thread not sure why it put it on this one but anyway

the road hog full boar is not spitting dmx out from the console ignore connecting the dp8000 I just want dmx from out the back of the console

If the DP is idle that means you have nothing patched to it.
If you do not need the external dp it does not need to be connected.

I have a light patched on the dp8000 in univ1 add1

Not the external but the internal one

Is the internal super widget mapped?
Are you sure you are patched the DP1?