Hi guys my name is Jorge again from SIRS Electronics and today I'm going to show you guys how to
do interface with the DMX protocol and the ArtNet Protocol through the EntTec Open Ethernet
DMX device. Ok, this open Ethernet DMX device, or short for: ODE, has ArtNet protocol that
you can interface with DMX and use it to control the LED strip with MADRIX. Ok, so let's show
you guys how to set this up. First of all, you want to go into your Network
and Sharing Center and click on your Network Connections. So first, let's make sure that
your Wireless Network Connection is OFF and that your Local Area Connection Network is
ON. We're going to go to Properties and then make sure to select Internet Protocol version
4, ok. On this one you'll want to instead of using the IP address automatically, you're
going to want to set it up manually, ok. So first click on that, and the IP address
that you should put in should come up in the box for your EntTec ODE device, ok. For this
EntTec device that we have the IP address is 10.7.144.199.
And the Subnet Mask should automatically appear
as 255.0.0.0, just click Ok. Click Ok again and close it. Make sure you're using the same
IP address as your box and don’t change the value as much as only 1, because if you
change it more it will not work. Now you can select this application, it's called a Note
Management Utility. You can download it from the website or it comes with the CD in your
ODE device. This little application is really good because, let's say you have different
devices with different IP addresses. With this application you can actually have a record
of which IP address belongs to which device and even if you change it, you'll still be
able to see it. So if you click on the application, go down where it says Discovery and it says
that it's going to look for EntTec devices. Now this is the EntTec devices that I selected,
this is the Open DMX Ethernet. So now if you select that , you go to Configure and make
sure it has the same IP address, the Protocol is ArtNet and that the Port Direction has
an output to DMX. So now that the configurations are saved and are the ones that we need , you
can go ahead and open MADRIX.
Ok, so now that we open MADRIX guys, we want
to go to the Preference and to the Device Manager. And just make sure that you turn
OFF the Key that you're using. We're using MADRIX Neo Key and go to the ArtNet tab and
here we're going to see the ArtNet Remote. Make sure that the IP address on the ArtNet
Remote matches the one for your device. Now you want to add a New Device. And since this
device only has one output and one port, all you want to do is leave it like that. 1 Number
of New Devices and 1 Port Count per Device. So you click on Ok. And now you want to go
back to where it says DMX Devices. So here on the DMX Devices you're going to see that
the Port 0 is now added. So you want to turn that ON so you'll be able to control the ODE
device from Port 0. So now you go back to your Preferences, go to Matrix Generator,
and here you're going to select your X, Y and Z axis. Ok since this LED strip is only
one LED strip ,for your x-axis you are going to put a value of 1. Since it has 34 LEDs
per meter and it's a 5 meter reel, you're going to put 170 LEDs in the y-axis. And the
z-axis doesn't really matter since it's not a 3D LED strip. You can put a 1 or a 0, it
doesn't really matter. So you just click Ok. And now you'll be able to see a black line
running through our Display, that's going to represent our LED strip. So you just have
to select an effect and let's say that you want to put the Fill Drops. So now you'll
be able to see the Fill Drops. As you can see, it was red now it's turning green, and
now from green it's turning into yellow. Now back into a green and it keeps doing the effect.
And then you can select other kinds of effects and change the Beats per Minute or whatever you want.
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