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ARTnet or shARTnet?

Hi, So my theatre has assigned me the duty of moving some linear actuators for automation using a (not the, but a) lighting console. In experimentation and building I was able to do this with my laptop, with Nomad software and license key installed, over ARTnet with an arduino equipped with an ethernet shield and a motor driver module.  Everything worked well, but at some point we'd moved into the space to install, and could not get our Nomad Puck to send the commands. We brought in an Element, and an Ion, and a different laptop with the nomad software and license key, and no other device besides my own laptop is able to control these things.

I've matched the settings, and ensured that ARTnet is being sent to the proper channels in the patch, we've modified the IP address and subnet masks and we've tried downgrading the software version on other laptops to match that of my own (2.5.2). The desired control consoles can all ping the arduinos over the network, but none seem to send it the proper ARTnet values.

Admittedly, I'm very new to ARTnet, or ETCnet, or anything that isn't a dmx cable. This project has taught me a lot, but I'm still missing some key information, apparently. Our head lx is stumped, as is our TD, and even our FieldService.ca technician wasn't able to help.

The show opens on Friday and everything is in place now, I'm afraid that I have no interest in rebuilding much of the arduino or its code to make this work. Just hoping to get my personal laptop back, and am baffled how it could be so special as to be the only Nomad that can work with these things.

Any ideas?

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    What Arduino are you using and what's your personal laptop? I've been running into issues where Nomad on my Macbook will recognize some Arduinos(Leonardo/Mirco) but my PC Nomad won't. It was suggested it may be a driver issue, or that you need to spoof the PID/VID. Or you may just need to swap boards(if possible).

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    That only comes into play when you are using OSC over USB.  This question is about a networked arduino.  

    I've done several projects with networked arduino.  If all the routing seems to be correct the problem may be that the ethernet shield being used can't process all the packets that it is seeing.  The wiznet 5100 based ethernet shields are really slow.  I would try what Matt has suggested to make sure packets are making it to the arduino.  Then you may need to do some logging with the arduino of incoming packets so you can see if it is having issues with processing.

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  • 0 in reply to duquesne09

    That only comes into play when you are using OSC over USB.  This question is about a networked arduino.  

    I've done several projects with networked arduino.  If all the routing seems to be correct the problem may be that the ethernet shield being used can't process all the packets that it is seeing.  The wiznet 5100 based ethernet shields are really slow.  I would try what Matt has suggested to make sure packets are making it to the arduino.  Then you may need to do some logging with the arduino of incoming packets so you can see if it is having issues with processing.

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