BEYOND ArtNet Setup In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of how to setup and use ArtNet, within the BEYOND Software.
BEYOND ArtNET Input control
In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to set BEYOND up to accept incoming DMX control via ArtNET.
The first thing needed is to make sure the BEYOND computer and the ArtNET device, are on the same network, by setting both up to have "similar", but not the same, IP addresses.
In Windows, you will normally change the IP address for a specific network adapter. You can usually access these settings from a small toolbar icon near the toolbar clock at the bottom right corner of the Window's desktop.
It may take two or three more clicks to get to the correct settings page; each version of Windows is different.
Once you have the Netwerk Adapter settings open You will want to edit the the IP address for that adapter.
Enter 192.168.1.99 into the IP address input box.
Hit the TAB button to move to the next box for SubNet; by hitting the TAB button, Windows will automatically assign the 255.255.255.0 subnet mask.
Click OK to save these settings and continue to the desktop to open BEYOND.
In BEYOND...
Click Settings, DMX, DMX/ArtNET settings. This will open the DMX settings menu where you will see options for setting up DMX Input and Output.
Right click on Universe 1 in the Input area and select ArtNET; this will tell BEYOND to enable DMX Input control via the ArtNET protocol.
Click on the Input tab to familiarize yourself with the generic, 16 channel, FB3-SE style DMX input channel settings.
This will give you a good deal of control over BEYOND to select workspace pages, cues, change X/Y/Z rotation, X/Y location, zoom/size, animation speed/scan rate, and full frame single color-change.
Here is a document detailing these channel settings.
From this screen you can also change the Starting DMX channel BEYOND uses for input control. Channel 1 is the default setting.
Please note, to get output from BEYOND, using this profile, you need to have several channels set to specific values.
Cue, Fade, Zoom, X/Y size, X/Y position, and Visible points all should be set to values higher than 0 (Cue needs to be 32 or higher) or images will not be displayed correctly for various reasons.
For example, if zoom is at 0, then the laser content will not be drawn as it is zoomed out of the projection area, if visible points is less than 255 not all the points within the image will be drawn, etc.
Click OK to accept these settings.
For customized control you will need to work with the DMX/ArtNET to PangoScript settings to make a customized DMX profile.
You can monitor incoming DMX signals by opening the DMX/MIDI monitor available under the View menu.
At this point, external control of BEYOND by DMX over ArtNET is enabled, but one final step needs to be taken before control can be realized.
When DMX input was enabled, a new button appeared at the top of the BEYOND user interface it is “DMX-IN” and must be clicked on before BEYOND will react to any incoming DMX commands.
If you have any problems, a good way to verify BEYOND's ArtNET communication is to set up two BEYOND computers, one doing ArtNET output and one doing ArtNET input; if you can control one BEYOND' from the other, the issue is external to BEYOND.
We hope you found this tutorial helpful, if you have any questions support, feel free to contact us directly. We'd be happy to help.
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