To give a clear picture of the situation, we have a Net3 network running through Paradigm. Touring house with ten (10) Universes. House consoles are networked and pose no issues however, Touring consoles need to stay OUT of certain Universes lest we have the lobby chandelier patch overlapping with the tour's movers which isn't all that terrible until the ballyhoo starts and everyone in the lobby suddenly thinks they've stepped into the club next door. (No not the voice of experience at all).
In short, Is there an effective method of masking/blocking specific DMX Universe information coming into a network port. I mean, its simple enough to hand the tour an saCN line but insisting that they stay OUT of specific Universes gets tricky and doesn't always compute when it is mentioned. Ideally, blocking any saCN information for a specific Universe would allow for all "allowable" universes to be patched while making it impossible to even accidentally send anything to a universe that is already populated with dimmers, fixtures, etc that we don't want accessed by touring lighting control.
For the record, the fall-back method is to hand tours a multi-channel DMX umbilical connected to a multi-output node/nodes. It works, but its messy and creates a lot of clutter with all that extra gear I keep hoping for a way to "address" a network port to only "see" a defined group of Universes. Is it a thing and I'm just not tech savvy enough to have done it or should I put more in the pipe and keep dreaming?
