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I am finally going to get a PixieLink. Right now I have 7 Highspeed Networks in my show each network runs about 2500 pixels. I have a couple of  duplicate unit ID numbers in my show on different networks. Network B uses units 30 thru 4F a total of 25 ports, Network E uses the same Unit IDs. Both networks run a 50x50 Matrix. Don't ask my why I have duplicate Unit IDs. It just worked out that way. lol. In the description on the LOR store it states.

When a port on the PixieLink adapter is configured as an Enhanced LOR network, the adapter will pick up to 32 universes out of the Ethernet traffic. The intensities associated with a universe will be converted into Enhanced LOR commands and the first universe in the list will be sent to LOR unit ID 01, the second universe in the list to unit ID 02, … the 32nd universe in the list to unit ID 20 (unit IDs are base 16).

Does this mean that if the second port on the PixieLink is also configured for an Enhanced LOR network,  will  this second port start at unit ID 21 or does the second port start over at Unit ID 01 for that network? 

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Each PixieLink Port Supports 32 Unit ID's, Each PixieLink Port will support only Unit ID's 1-32...

So you will have 6 PixieLink Ports with each PixieLink Port only supporting Unit ID's 1-32

If using Pixie16's - Each Pixielink Port will have a Unit ID 01 and Unit ID 11

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When you build the preview using a pixielink - do you use the universe numbers in the preview - or the pixie16's numbers/letters to get to 32?

Said in another way - these universes you are setting up on the port configuration page are unique, and you can't assign two universe 1's at all, so it would seem to me you could do either one within the preview.

The manual is completely devoid of this information, and the preview videos are not updated to allow pixielink users.

So, does pixielink even matter when it comes to preview building? Just use the alphanumeric characters up to 32 for each port?

Thanks

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The universes.  The Preview does not know or care that it's a PixieLink.  It's just DMX universes.  The Network config page defines that those universes point to a particular IP address.  Only the PixieLink controller itself knows that it will be converting that to LOR Unit IDs.

 

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