We have been successfully using your casDMX units to control standard DMX RGBW fittings. Given the limitations of the animation speed possible when programming animations in the Casambi app, we sometimes require the use of standard DMX controllers for some projects (where faster and more complex animations are required). However, given the simplicity of the Casambi app, we would like to be able to connect a Casambi device to the DMX master to trigger the pre-programmed animations. This gives us the ability to have the complex and fast animations required for the project, but still have the ease of triggering and scheduling possible through Casambi. For example, we could program 10 specialized animations into the DMX master, but then trigger each animation from either a Casambi switch, motion sensor or time schedule from within the app.
We were thinking that a ‘SceneDMXcas’ may be the correct device to do this but are not 100% sure. If you could give some advice that would be awesome!
We have two “DMX master” devices, the DMXcas and the SceneDMXcas. Both accept a DMX master signal to its input, and then drives the Casambi network accordingly.
The DMXcas is an 8 channel device and can act like 8 separate dimmer inputs. You map the Casambi channels to fixtures using the Casambi app.
Likewise, the SceneDMXcas is accepting DMX from a master controller, but can chose 1-20 pre-defined Casambi Scenes that have been made in the Casambi app.
Note that the SceneDMXcas needs an exact number, meaning that 1 is a 1, 2 is a 2, so the precise selection has to be available in the DMX master.
To be able to trigger the DMX controller to select those Scenes if using the SceneDMXcas is something that we do not know how to do, since the DMX master is outside of the Casambi network, unless you can find a Casambi enabled relay that can be triggered by some action in the network, and then feed the DMX master that contact closure…
We appreciate the continued discourse around the subject!