SACN implementation

[Raphael]

Hello Guys, I wondering about Sacn protocol in VL
Is there a plan for a proper nuget, a hello world for this protocol that seems to be everywhere now…
@nissidis as already work on a implementation here

UDP JoinMutlicastGroup - sACN

Recently I was back and working on sACN Prototcol, I started with the Kadmium implementation (you may find the original lib here and my implementation here) however I was not quite happy how the UDP server (Listener) was working, so I kept the core for the object classes and I switched to vvvv’s beloved one UDPServer. The issue now is that there is no way to join multicast groups (I was thinking that it would be nice to use JoinMulticastGroup ) in bulk way. The important and crucial thing with…

But its a little bit too complex for my understanding and for my purpose

Does someone have a simple patch for basic control with that protocol… ?
Few little light to control on the same ip…

Thanks you very much :)

[nissidis]

@Raphael Can be, it is just matter of time (as usual). Did you try to use it? If you have any questions I LL be glad to guide you through and why not to update it accordingly.

[Raphael]

Hello @nissidis,
Thanks for the quick return,
I think I not far… how do you input the data in your patch…
Dummy question I feel, A Spread to sequence…? why is it on create ?
Thank you ?

[nissidis]

@Raphael this one looks weird, or in a very early stage. Can you pull again the repo please?

and check the example How to join Multicast Groups

The main question is do you want to send data or to receive ?

[Raphael]

I want to send data!
And yes I will try to pull the repo again…
Come back soon in front of the computer

[nissidis]

@Raphael Ah ok I see now, yes sorry, had over a year to work on this.
So, there is nothing yet to send data to sACN, I couldn’t test it back then and it wasn’t also in my scope. What I was looking for was to receive data from a lightdesk with a fairly complicated fixtures setup (aprox 2000 fixtures).

The only thing that I had (and still have) to test this was the sACN View

I will see if I can get there but probably not the next couple of hours, I ll keep you posted.

[Raphael]

Ok I see,
I found this old wip in the forum…

Just released: sACN for vvvv/VL

Dear evvvvrybody, I just uploaded a partial sACN implementation in pure VL to GitHub. Now we can send sACN from vvvv. No syncing yet, and only sending is supported through multicasting. Internally it’s heavily based on the Art-Net nodes. As this is my first attempt at VL, I’d welcome any comment or suggestion as well as bug reports. Have fun! https://github.com/szekelyisz/VVVV.Network.sACN

On beta but with VL
I Think it was working…

[TremensS]

I agree an official sACN implementation would be nice…
I see it more and more since installations get bigger and bigger, multicast is a real advantage over ArtNet.

Devvvvs, any attempts/plans in the work for this? 😇

[nissidis]

@Raphael I wasnt aware of this tbh, and I like the idea of starting from scratch rather than working on an already existing lib like Kadmium

@TremensS yes, that would be great and indeed, it is the last four years (at least) where I don’t see anymore Artnet in big venues.