Advanced Features > DMX-512

•The DMX-Routing Window is the place for a central management of all DMX-over-Ethernet Inputs and Outputs for your project

•Vertex works with an internal decimal universe count - that gives you the freedom to map, route and split those universes to different protocols, output universe numbers and Systems. Until your final patching, the internal programming in VERTEX is independent from your final output routing.

•Manage all your Systems in one window and split the physical Ethernet output up to other Systems of your project.

Output

1	Label	Free Label Name
2	Universe	Decimal VERTEX Universe number: VERTEX is working with an internal and decimal Universe Count for Lighting Control Data. Independent from e.g. the DMX Start address of your device, you could give all devices a Universe number that stays consistent in your whole project
3	System	Defines the System on which Ethernet Card the control data should be sent. For e.g different rooms or room situations, you could e.g. send out 2 Universes from your Master System. For the Art-Net™ Control data for e.g. some LED-Fixtures you could use the network card and network from your client System2 that is e.g located in another area...
4	Protocoll	Select the Protocol for your Lighting Control data. You can select for every universe between Art-Net™, sACN or DMX over a connected USB-DMX-Output device
5	Output	Defines the universe, on which your control data will be send out. So you could e.g route and output VERTEX Universe 1 to Art-Net™ Universe 1, or even VERTEX Universe 1 to sACN Universe 2
6	IP-Address	By Default, if there is no entry, Art-Net™ data will be broadcasted and sACN-Data will be multicasted. When you enter an IP address into this field, Art-Net™ or sACN -Data will be unicasted to the device with this IP.
7	Frames per Second	Per default this field is set to 44,1 Hz (DMX-Standard). You can individually increase or decrease the protocol frames per second by entering your custom values. The maximum number is limited to 100, in most cases the ethernet-setup limits the maximum to around 80 frames.
8	Single Mute	Disables the network connection of a single column
9	Global Mute	Disables all DMX-over-Ethernet connections

Input

7	Label	Free Label Name
8	Protocol	Input protocoll on that VERTEX will listen
9	Input	Input Universe of the lighting protocol that VERTEX should listen/Read
10	System	VERTEX System on your Project Network that should read/listen to the incoming protocoll. This System should have physical access to the protocoll, of course ..
11	Universe	VERTEX Universe on which the incoming control data is mapped

Supported Protocols

Output Protocols:

•Art-Net™

•sACN

•DMX-512 over USB-Adaptor

Input Protocols:

•Art-Net™

•sACN

•MA-Net2, could only be received as Input and not send out as output protocol

•DMX-512 over USB-Adaptor

information Good to know: Broadcast, Unicast, Multicast
Art-Net™ supports per default specification broadcast or unicast.
sACN supports per default specification unicast or multicast. Please note: multicast is very effective for a larger amount of control data into a network.
When planning to sending data with multicast: Please be aware that your network-switch has to support this. Not all hardware does.

Advanced: Universe Numbering with Art-Net™ and sACN

•Within the VERTEX DMX Patching , we are using a decimal numbering for all control universes. This includes our internal numbering as well as the Art-Net™ and sACN numbering.

•By default, Art-Net™ is defined by using a combination of subnets and universes within hexadecimal numbering. To make it easier to switch between output protocols and to simplify your patching, VERTEX internally uses only decimal numbers for ethernet based Control-Data.

•The output for Art-Net™ matches of course to the protocol specifications. VERTEX takes over the conversion into subnet and universes for you under the hood.

Comparison between hexadecimal and decimal numbering

VERTEX Universe Numbering (Decimal) for interal as for ethernet based control universes	sACN Universe Numbering	Default Art-Net™ Universe Numbering with subnets and universes (Hexadecimal)
		subnet	universe

0	0 is reserved by default and not used	0	0
1	1	0	1
2	2	0	2
3	3	0	3
4	4	0	4
5	5	0	5
6	6	0	6
7	7	0	7
8	8	0	8
9	9	0	9
10	10	0	A
11	11	0	B
12	12	0	C
13	13	0	D
14	14	0	E
15	15	0	F
16	16	1	0
17	17	1	1
18	18	1	2
19	19	1	3
20	20	1	4
21	21	1	5
22	22	1	6
23	23	1	7
24	24	1	8
25	25	1	9
26	26	1	A
27	27	1	B
28	28	1	C
29	29	1	D
30	30	1	E
31	31	1	F
32	32	2	0
33	33	2	1
34	34	2	2
35	35	2	3
36	36	2	4
37	37	2	5
38	38	2	6
39	39	2	7
40	40	2	8
41	41	2	9
42	42	2	A
43	43	2	B
44	44	2	C
45	45	2	D
46	46	2	E
47	47	2	F
48	48	3	0
49	49	3	1
50	50	3	2
51	51	3	3
52	52	3	4
53	53	3	5
54	54	3	6
55	55	3	7
56	56	3	8
57	57	3	9
58	58	3	A
59	59	3	B
60	60	3	C
61	61	3	D
62	62	3	E
63	63	3	F
64	64	4	0
65	65	4	1
66	66	4	2
67	67	4	3
68	68	4	4
69	69	4	5
70	70	4	6
71	71	4	7
72	72	4	8
73	73	4	9
74	74	4	A
75	75	4	B
76	76	4	C
77	77	4	D
78	78	4	E
79	79	4	F
80	80	5	0
81	81	5	1
82	82	5	2
83	83	5	3
84	84	5	4
85	85	5	5
86	86	5	6
87	87	5	7
88	88	5	8
89	89	5	9
90	90	5	A
91	91	5	B
92	92	5	C
93	93	5	D
94	94	5	E
95	95	5	F

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Supported Protocols

Advanced: Universe Numbering with Art-Net™ and sACN