How Do You Tie into Venue's Lighting System as a Band?

[@lucastseh4709]

This is exactly what I was looking for for months! Thank you so much!

[@surfinstincttv369]

Hey David! A quick question, The venue I’m playing has a production spec which says “two cat 5 feeds from front of house to stage allows for control of an extra lighting floor package via a two universe controller”. I’m wondering what hardware / software will I need in order to be able to utilise this? Currently I have a 1 universe enttec pro usb dongle. Any help Is appreciated! Thank you!

[@LearnStageLighting]

More than likely this is an Art-Net or sACN feed, but you would need more details to determine that and then figure out if your software or hardware could send to it.

[@surfinstincttv369]

@@LearnStageLighting hey thanks for the reply! I don’t believe my dongle can send art net as it only has 1 dmx out and 1 dmx in. But the board is called an lcs mantra lite. Is it possible to send artnet signal from my computers Ethernet port for the venues lights, as well as send dmx through my dongle to my lights?

[@mashzmash]

For the small clubs without a patch sheet available, you'd be surprised how many "budget" fixtures can do RDM these days.. definitely give it a shot before reverse engineering everything. Especially if they hired a contractor to do the install, it's likely they'll be brand name with a fixture profile readily available in your console. I would never even dare to plug into a venue's IP network -- and I do networking professionally. Way too many unknowns, pitfalls, and things to break. If I'm in a situation where there are (physically inaccessible) DMX nodes, I'll sooner set an input on the house console for HTP DMX merge and send a universe in through old fashion DMX. If I absolutely need to send an IP DMX protocol, 90% of the time if it's sACN, it'll be multicast with "dumb" switches and frankly it won't matter what your IP or subnet configuration is anyway.

[@JoboLS]

Hey David, I really appreciate the videos you make but can you please not repeat so much. Write a script, summarize. 15 minutes is really long for what you need to teach. Thanks