Hello,
I am installing a stage lighting system for a church in my area.
The system includes 16 Chauvet Pro Colorado Quad Zoom Pars (in tour mode), 3 - 4ch Dimmer Packs, 4 Elation Satura Spot LED Pro Moving Heads (22ch mode), 1 Chauvet Amhaze Hazer and 16 Chauvet Pro Epix Tour Strips driven by a 900ip Epix Driver.
Originally, the system was sold with an ETC Colorsource controller but, I soon talked them into using ShowXpress with the new 1024 usb interface and a Chauvet DMX AN-2. (I have 10+ years experience working with ShowXpress)
My plan is to control the entire system via artnet from the PC running ShowXpress, using the DMX AN-2 to control the DMX fixtures and artnet to control the Epix driver.
My issue with this plan is:
1- The Epix 900 uses 6 consecutive artnet (or sCAN) universes which will require a 2nd 1024 interface and max out ShowXpress leaving no room for the remaining fixtures in the patch.
Question 1:
The EpIx 900 driver is not in the ShowXpress fixture library and I have not been able to find any instructions explaining how to patch the Epix driver to ShowXpress or, how to build scenes in the pixel mapper.
How can I do this or, where can I find it?
Question 2: There are 16 Epix strips (not 18) so there will be some unused channels at the end of universe 5 (artnet starts at 0). Can I simply patch the remaining fixtures starting at 5-512 and patch backwards from there? Those commands will be seen by the Epix driver but because there are 16 strips instead of 18, the patch overlap will not be seen on stage.
Question 3:
If the answer to question #2 is No, can I send DMX and Artnet from ShowXpress simultaneously and exclusively?
I am nearing the end of this project and my deadline is closing in.
Thank you for any help you can provide.