Hi guys my name is Jorge again here from SIRS Electronics and today I'm going to show you
guys how to interface the protocol ArtNet with DMX using this Work DMX Net8 interface.
Ok, so this interface works with DMX and ArtNet. And what it does is, you can actually use
programs like MADRIX to interface this Net8 and be able to control your LEDs more effectively.
So I'm going to show you on the computer how to set up your IP address and how to set up
the DMX Net8, and then you'll be able to use MADRIX with the interface.
So let's start first of all, what you want to do guys is, you want to make sure that
your Wireless Network Connection is Disabled, ok. And when you have that, you'll be able
to go into your Local Area Connection, you go to Properties, and then you select Internet
Protocol version 4. When you open this up it's going to say that you can get your IP
address automatically but what you want to do is select your own IP address. You select
the following IP address and on that one, since this is an ArtNet protocol, ArtNet only
uses a 2 or 10 value for IP address. So what you're going to put here is 2.0.0.1 and for
a Subnet Mask you're going to automatically see it as 255.0.0.0 now here you just go Ok.
You select Ok, and you Close it. Now you see Unidentified Network. So if you want to make
sure that it's connected, what you can do is you can come back and turn off your DMX
Net8 . You'll be able to see that the network cable was Unplugged so to speak. If you turn
it back on, it's going to continue and it's going to connect it back again. So now it's
identifying it and it's connected back again to the network, ok. So now we can open up
our MADRIX Software.
Ok, so now that you open up MADRIX, what you
want to do is go up on your Preferences, select Device Manager, and here you're going to be
able to see your ArtNet Remote and the Key that you're using. Make sure you turn off
your Key, go to the ArtNet and now the ArtNet remote should be set to the same IP address
that you set on your computer. So now you can go to Add New Devices, and since this
is an 8 Channel DMX Net8, what we're going to do is we're going to set 2 New Devices
with 4 Ports. That is going to give us 8 outputs. So now you can see the ArtNet's 1, 2, 3 and
4, and 5,6,7 and 8. So if you go back to DMX Devices, you're going to see the list of ArtNet
Devices and Ports that you already set up. So you want to turn on the first Port, which
is the one that we have connected to our LED Strip. So when you click Ok, all you got to
do is set up the Matrix. So go to Matrix Generator under Preferences, and now here we're going
to select our X, Y, and Z coordinates. Since this is not several strips, you only have
one strip for your x-axis, you're only going to have a value of 1, now this strip has 34
LEDs per meter. That means for the 5 meter reel it's a total of 170 LEDs. So for your
y-axis, you're going to have 170. And for your z-axis you don't have a 3D dimensional
LED strip, you don't need anything there. You can put a 0 or a 1, it doesn't really
matter. So if you click Ok, you're going to see a black line running through the middle.
That's your LED Strip. So now you can just select an effect. Go to SCE and then let's
say I want to do some Color Change. So now you're able to see the color changing on the
LED strip and then you can go back and change different kinds of effects.
So there I'm using the Fill Drops,
and you can select different effects if you want.
So that's how you basically
guys interface the DMX NET8 with MADRIX using ArtNet protocol.
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