Hello. This is my first time working with DMX and although I have a basic surface level understanding I'm unsure what the ideal amount of universes is best for my project. There's a total of 8 4-port gateways. 4 of those gateways are going to be using all 4 port (I'll call these flood lights) and the remaining 4 will only use 1 port since those lights will be daisy chained since they will all be the same color (I'll call these necklace lights). I know I'm using sACN since between each gateway from the controller there is ethernet/fiber connections since they are all a fair distance away from each other.
I know I will be using at least 2 universes to separate the two types of lights but besides that are there ever any issues with 4 different controllers using the same universe so long as they are in the same network? The way I'm imagining is Universe 1 will host the flood lights using channels 1-64 for the 16 individual lights on 4 of the gateways and on the remaining 4 gateways those will be Universe 2 using channels 1-16 for the 4 daisy chain lights.
