Compatibility with Advatek PixLite 16 Long Range Mk2 and the likes

Beam for Live
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Hello there !

I’m really thinking into buying your great software but first I needed to know:

Would it be possible to make it work with a controller like the PixLite 16 Long Range Mk2 from advatek ?
I already use it for the Led walls DMX channels and it has 4 other normal DMX outputs available.

I haven’t tested yet but I believe the device acts as an artnet or SACN server so maybe this should work ?

Thanks a lot

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Hi, thanks for reaching out!

Beam can output any number of Art-Net universes (sACN is currently not yet supported), so you should be able to use it to control your pixel controller.

Before buying, please test this yourself using the trial version and let me know if you need any help.

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Thanks for the reply, I’ll have a go at it !

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Hey @Luka , back after years and thinking about making the switch to beam, any info on some sacn support ? cheerz

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Hi @Mozoloa,

Nice to see you back. No concrete news about sACN yet, although it is something that we would like to add in the future. Thanks for sharing your wish.
Could you share some more about your use case? Have you already tried Art-Net? Are there any particular limitations of Art-Net that have prevented you to get to the results you are after?

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Hey ! I’m already using sacn with my pixlite controler as i was under the impression it was faster and more stable, but artnet works as well ! Do you guys have an active discord ? I’m back on my live project and planning on maybe buying Beam, but I have 10000 questions

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The main inefficiency with Art-Net occurs when you broadcast DMX to all devices in a network (e.g. sending to 10.255.255.255), which may create unnecessary network traffic, whereas sACN uses multicasting, which is more efficient. If you’re using unicast Art-Net (where you manually specify every target device you want to send DMX to), the performance difference is not as significant. sACN also has a few other advantages, such as the ability to set priority of packets coming from different sources for redundancy reasons.

Do you guys have an active discord ? I’m back on my live project and planning on maybe buying Beam, but I have 10000 questions

We do - discord.showsync.com! However, the Discord is primarily intended for the community discourse. If you have any questions for the Showsync team, please ask them on the forum.