Legacy Archives - Artistic Licence

Posted on July 11, 2017February 8, 2021 by ALE Admin

Dali-Scope: Adding a ballast to an existing system

It is sometimes necessary to add a new ballast to an existing installation. Usually you will want to do this without changing the short addresses of the existing ballasts.

To do this you need to isolate the new ballast from the existing network prior to commissioning with Dali-Scope. This means that you should connect the new DALI ballast, the bus power supply and Dali-Scope together. If the new ballast has previously been assigned a short address, simply change the short address to the preferred address using Dali-Scope. If the ballast is in factory default state, run an “Automatic channel discovery”. This process will assign short address 1 to the ballast. Then change the short address to the preferred value prior to connecting it to the ballast network.

You can then connect the new ballast to the existing network.

Posted on July 11, 2017June 14, 2023 by ALE Admin

Gateways: Reset product IP address

Our gateway products, which include artLynx uno, artLynx duo, artLynx quad, artLynx RJ45, netLynx quad, rackLynx octo and dataLynx II all have a factory reset switch. To reset to factory defaults, hold down the switch and cycle the power. Once you have reset to the factory default, the IP address will change. See Gateway: Finding the IP Address of a product.

The IP address of legacy Artistic Licence network products can be reset to factory default using the front panel controls as described below:

IP reset procedure (legacy products)

A: Set Sub-Net wheel and both Universe wheels to F, power off, power on.
B: Set Sub-Net wheel to 9, power off, power on, power off, set Sub-Net wheel to F, power on.

Product	IP reset procedure
AL5001	A
AL5002	A
Data-Lynx O/P	B
Data-Lynx I/P	B
Data-Lynx IO/P	B
Down-Lynx	A
Up-Lynx	A
Net-Lynx O/P	A
Net-Lynx I/P	A
Cata-Lynx I/P	A
Cata-Lynx O/P	A
Ether-Lynx II	B
Art-Lynx O/P	A
Art-Lynx I/P	A
Art-Pipe	B
Art-Relay	B
Multichrome E1 & E2	A

Posted on July 7, 2017June 14, 2023 by ALE Admin

Gateways: Finding the IP Address of a product

There are three methods for finding the IP address of an Art-Net product:

Connect using DMX-Workshop, this will display the product in a network list along with its IP address. DMX-Workshop can be downloaded from here. DMX-Workshop provides a gateway recovery system that uses the RDMnet – LLRP protocol. This allows a gateway to be recovered even when it is on a totally different IP range to DMX-Workshop. The LSI article HelpDesk17-Low-level-recovery-Oct2018 explains this in more detail.
Ping: Open a command line window and use the ping command. If the products are on the normal Art-Net address range, type: “ping 2.255.255.255”. This approach is best on a Mac as Macs do not support net-bios.
Perform a net-bios search (Windows only). To do this, connect the product to your laptop’s network, open browser and type in the net-bios name of the product you are using (see below). Occasionally the net-bios cache in the browser gets out of date. To flush the cache and restart, type “nbtstat -R” in the browser window.

Current Products (product code – net-bios name)

oemGate quad – oemGatequad
rackLynx octo – rackLynx
daliGate quad – daliGatequad
netLynx quad – netLynxquad
dataLynx II – dataLynxII
artLynx duo – artLynxduo
artLynx quad – artLynxquad
artLynx RJ45 – artLynxRJ45
versaSplit EthB – VersaEtherB

Legacy Products (product code – net-bios name)

Data-Lynx O/P – DATALYNXOP
Data-Lynx I/P – DATALYNXIP
Data-Lynx I/OP – DATALYNXIO
Down-Lynx – DownLynx
Up-Lynx – UpLynx
Net-Lynx O/P – NetLynxOp
Net-Lynx I/P – NetLynxIp
Cata-Lynx I/P – CataLynxIp
Cata-Lynx O/P – CataLynxOp
Ether-Lynx II – EtherLynxII
Art-Lynx O/P – ArtLynxOp
Art-Lynx I/P – ArtLynxIp
Art-Pipe – ArtPipe
Art-Relay – ArtRelay
Multichrome E2 – E2MultiChrome
Eaton / Cooper Controls EN2RDM – EN2RDM
Eaton / Cooper Controls EN8RDM – EN8RDM
Thorn SensaDMX – SENSAEDMX
Lex Products LexNet – LEXNET