Dmx dongle for 2 universes?

vvvv beta question
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can someone recommend a v4-compatible usb-dmx dongle that can handle 2 dmx-universes ?

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the butler

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The Stage Profi 1.1 has the option to handle 2 DMX Universes in extension mode, with the loss of DMX Feedback.

http://www.dmx4all.de/produkte_artnet_dmx_interfaces.html

http://www.dmx4all.de/download/manuals_en/DMX461_ArtNet_DMX_STAGE_PROFI_11_en.pdf ← Extension Mode, Site 7.

but i havent tested it yet.
I needs no driver and works out of the Box with VVVVs DMX(artnet) Nodes.

d0t

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or if you go enttec: http://www.enttec.com/?main_menu=Products&pn=70018

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@d0this, all the dxm4all hardware I encountered was rather bad, I could see lags/delay when we started to use more and more channel. But that was like 7 years ago, did they fixed it by now? any one knows?

The Enttec and the Butler are Artnet (DMX via Ethernet), not USB, I am not aware of a 2 uni’s usb dongle. vvvv has good Artnet support, so that should work.

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anyone got the new enttec dmx usb pro mk2 working?

the enttec guy at the prolight and sound told me it should work :)

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If they claim “Fully backward-compatible with all software titles that support DMX USB PRO” it should already work using @karistouf)) ((contribution:littlecat-dmx-engine, for 1 uni anyway…

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I highly recommend to use Art-Net Nodes, less trouble with drivers and compatibility

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this bit of kit worked well for me on a project a while back. Elation E-Node 8 - Artnet/DMX Node. It’s very cheap for what it does too. Def good to work with ArtNet.

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@xd that is cheap for 8 outputs!

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yeah mega cheap and worked well. Rack mount is nice too. We had all 8 universes running all channels all changing every-frame at 44fps and it was all smooth. Couldn’t fault the artnet.

Tried getting the real-time record function working but it wouldn’t - oh yeah I remember now I got reply from Elation support saying it wasn’t actually a feature on this model and was an error on site. Looks like they haven’t updated their site. You won’t find any mention of it in their documentation though if I remember correctly.

Also couldn’t get ‘shows’ working. Their software with it is like bad windows 98 application. Buggy and badly written. Recommended Artnet only. Didn’t test High Speed DMX- 1000K(1M) protocol.