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At 13:05 -0500 12-01-2004, Eric Cornwell wrote: But one of the features of LCEdit is that it, too, is very fixture oriented. It would be nice someday for LCEdit to be able to plug-and-play with ACN fixtures, which will describe their capabilities through DDL (XML) files, so that LCEdit could, for example, automatically assemble control palettes for previously unknown devices. Because of its great flexibility, LCEdit is an ideal controller for ACN-enabled fixtures. Well, LCedit is not the controller, the LanBox is the controller. We are just implementing a decent protocol to have efficient communication between LanBoxes, and to 3D visualization software. Art-Net and ACN are just not made for this purpose. Granted, neither of these protocols may be appropriate for internal LCEdit/LanBox communication, but both could be valuable for controlling and responding to the outside world. In a future all-ACN installation LCEdit could discuss abstract control topics with the fixtures while the LanBox transmitted output levels on ACN instead of DMX, all on the same piece of wire. You could build an ACN LCX that had only the ethernet port and save some costs, I should think. The LanBox is a small, low-cost, highly reliable, stand-alone, easily integrated, distributed DMX controller. We have currently no interest to make it an ACN controller, which would require changes so radical it basically means a (very costly!) software rewrite from scratch.
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