Star Lord Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 Hello, Back in April, I purchased the (http://store.lightorama.com/shcestpa.html) My first show was the 4th of July. During that time, I ran a cat5e cable from my CTB16PC to the "miniDirector and FM Transmitter". For my Christmas show, it's difficult to run a cat5e to the miniDirector and I found that it's really not needed as the signal is transmitted as expected on my desired FM frequency. My question is: what is the purpose of running a cat5e to the miniDirector? Thanks, James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 Well, if you are going to be running the show from the Mini-Director then there needs to be a connection between the mini-director and the controllers. Otherwise you will have no power to the director, nor any show running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Lord Posted November 22, 2018 Author Share Posted November 22, 2018 Hi Don, My computer that I run the show from is right at the front of my house and I connect the Mini-Director directly into the the audio output jack of my computer. So since I have the output of my show directly feeding into the Mini-Director, that's probably why I don't need the cat5e, right? James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 All sorts of alarm bells going off in my head right now. If you are not using the director to run your show, then you would have a network cable going from the USB485 to Controller 01 to run the show. Audio would go from your computer to the FM Transmitter. If you are running from a computer, then you don't need to touch the mini-director. Nothing will be hooked up to it, and it will do nothing but simply exist in the enclosure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Lord Posted November 22, 2018 Author Share Posted November 22, 2018 You're right Don, I'm running the network cable from the USB485 to Controller 01 to run the show and not really using the Mini-Director at all. Thanks for the clarification and answering my question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 Cool. I had visions of wires running everywhere overly complicating things. Glad to hear it's set up 'normally.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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