I work in a Net3 facility. The house lighting system is driven by Paradigm, and they own an Ion. The house package uses 5 universes.
There are a ton of Net3 RJ45 wall ports, but they did not budget for Gateways. Therefore, there are none. Also, there is not a dedicated computer attached to the system running Concert. I have Concert on my personal computer, but I'm not in the facility on a daily basis to play around with it.
When we do in-house productions, the nature of my life is such: 1) unload the truck 2) wire the lights & address them 3) get them working immediately - no time to troubleshoot. I utilize the four dmx ports on the Ion for temporary, portable gear. Because these productions are perennial, I keep the fixtures in patch and in a cuelist(s) so that the next year, I can simply address the lights in the same manner, and magic presto, just like all the other temporary, portable gigs I work outside this facility, there is my show. Wrong!
I think I might be experiencing a network collision. I turned off sACN on those ports. Could be I just needed to restart. I am working with the newest version of Eos, v 3.0.2. I don't integrate new equipment on a regular basis, so there is always a "Now, how did I do this the last time?" pause. I think patching has changed a bit. Also, years earlier under a previous Eos version, I assigned the dmx ports via the shell, but now I read another community answer in which dmx outputs can be configured via System then Output. Maybe this has always been an option. Like I said, I rarely work in the facility, and when I am there, I don't have time to explore.
Here's my question. If the rental equipment has ethernet connections, can i connect them directly to the Net3 wall ports or do I need Response Gateways with RJ45 ports?
