Addressing DMX Devices

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Addressing DMX Devices

Your devices receive messages from DeltaServer according to the DMX Base Address and their respective Delta channels.

Each Base Address can be any number within range (0-511) but should be unique for independent devices: it should not coincide with any other base/channel number unless this is the requirement (e.g. multiple devices listening to the same part of the addressed block).

Plan your device requirements:

For example, Light 1 has base address of 1 and can have 4 Delta output channels:

Red channel 1 (values 0–255)

Blue channel 2 (values 0–255)

Green channel 3 (values 0–255)

Brightness channel 4 (values 0–255)

Light 2 can then start at base address 5 and take up 4 channels, and so on.

Further instructions for addressing specific devices may be found in its manufacturer’s user manual.

DIP switch settings

The example below shows a DIP switch chart denoting that this light is ON (switch 10) with a base address of 5 (switches 1 and 3):

DIP-example

A device set-up might look like this:

example-ArtNet-device-setup

ArtNetominator is a free facility to help you to set up and troubleshoot your Art-Net devices:

http://www.lightjams.com/artnetominator/

Page edited [d/m/y]: 02/07/2021