Use of a non-ETC Streaming ACN capable console?

I did a bit of searching, and didn't find any posts that answer my question. It's a bit off topic, because it involves involves interoperability of ETC and non-ETC gear.

I'm currently working a show in a newly constructed high school auditorium. It's an all ETC installation, with an Ion console, Sensor racks and DMX output "nodes" all tied together with ETCnet 3 over TCP/IP and Ethernet CAT5 cabling. Or so I'm lead to believe, anyway, by the venue technical staff. There is no provision for DMX input to the system.

My question is can I use a non-ETC console, which has Streaming ACN output capability, in this system? My understanding is that the level signaling is via sACN, and other configuration, error and device intercommunication takes place via "full" ACN. It's not clear to me that the sACN output of my personal console extends to "full" ACN capability.

If I can use a "generic" sACN console with this system, are there any other setup or configuration issues that I would need to worry about? For example IP addressing? Would the system be configured by default to use IP subnet broadcast? Or does the system somehow know the unicast IP address of the primary (Ion) console? What about "priority" tagging of the sACN stream?

Understandably, the documentation provided with the system does not cover interoperability with third-party product.

Regards,

Dave Nelson
d.b.nelson|design

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Steve Bailey over 13 years ago

dbn said:

DMX output "nodes" all tied together with ETCnet 3 over TCP/IP and Ethernet CAT5 cabling.

If any of these "nodes"are ETC 1,2, or 3 port Gateways, with 5 pin XLR connectors, then they output and/or can be set up to receive DMX. They just need configuring via the Net 3 configuration editor.

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ctprice over 13 years ago in reply to Steve Bailey

Just to clarify 2 port and 4 port Gateways are configured via GCE (Gateway Configuration Editor) while 1 port Gateways are configured via NCE (Network Configuration Editor).

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ctprice over 13 years ago in reply to Steve Bailey

Just to clarify 2 port and 4 port Gateways are configured via GCE (Gateway Configuration Editor) while 1 port Gateways are configured via NCE (Network Configuration Editor).

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Steve Bailey over 13 years ago in reply to ctprice

ctprice said:

Just to clarify 2 port and 4 port Gateways are configured via GCE (Gateway Configuration Editor) while 1 port Gateways are configured via NCE (Network Configuration Editor).

Any particular reason two different config editors ?. I know I have the GCE in the Ion shell, is the NCE the older Net2 NCE ?.
bpalmer over 13 years ago in reply to Steve Bailey

the honest answer here is also the simple answer.

Yes this is the NCE from ETC Net2 days. We are working on adding 1-port support to GCE now. this is something that should have been completed several years ago but had gotten shuffled in the list of development. For that I apologize to you,a and everyone else that has a 1-port gateway!

Worth mention it is possible to install NCE in the Ion shell. Phone Support can certainly assist with this if necessary.
Hans.Hinrichsen over 13 years ago in reply to bpalmer

bpalmer said:

Worth mention it is possible to install NCE in the Ion shell. Phone Support can certainly assist with this if necessary.

Indeed. We've also documented it on our wiki page here: http://community.etcconnect.com/wikis/products/installing-nce-on-an-eos-family-console.aspx