Liberation is going to Glastonbury! Thanks to Reach Lasers and Arcadia, the biggest laser install at the event to date will be powered by Liberation!
The crew are on site as we speak setting up, but in this video you can see how I helped at their pre-production build in the studio last week.
The DMX feature highlighted in the video will be in the next build, once it’s a little more tested I’ll get it out to you all before the end of the month.
(I’m experimenting with HDR video, so if you’re watching on a compatible screen, this video should be extra bright. I thought that might be good for lasers so let me know how that works for you!)
Seb
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The Ether Dreams are on one network, the ArtNet is on another, with separate interfaces. The ArtNet node is just literally plugged into a USB-C network adaptor on the Mac (I’m kinda surprised that works haha), then standard DMX cabling for the fixtures on 3 universes.
Danny runs a fixed IP router-less network, I personally prefer to have DHCP on my set ups, but fixed IP seems to be somewhat of a standard in the industry. There are multiple managed switches to get between the towers I believe.
Thanks Seb, good to hear that as I add heads the network should hold up. Currently I don’t separate my Artnet but clearly that’s a good idea for the future. I saw someone here mention that Etherdream can trip over Artnet traffic but I haven’t seen that yet. I rarely run more than 4 universes right now, but I don’t doubt the first time it dies will be in the middle of a gig!
I run a Ubiquity edge router as a field DHCP server with all my standard kit assigned a fixed address in the server. It feels like the best of both worlds. Known addresses are kind of important with a lot of Artnet kit, especially with vile Artnet not-quite-mDNS going on.
Sounds good, yeah I can’t see any reason why ArtNet and Ether Dream would conflict at all, it’s more likely that they had a shitty network that was falling over at a certain data rate! (I don’t think that was on here?) But I’ve run 24 Ether Dreams on a 100 base network before I hit the data limit (so gigabit is recommended)
