Gaffer & Gear 213 - Battery Powered CRMX Hub In this episode I show my solution for receiving CRMX commands and distributing it to my cables DMX lights. The splitter is available from…. www.tecart.com.au/product/tec...
This looks great, thanks for sharing! My knowledge of DMX/CRMX is very limited so this may well not be a valid idea but much in the way that this setup works, could you instead use a CRMX receiver into one of those cheap Chauvet wireless DMX packs to multiply the DMX signal but wirelessly? I'm guessing that there's an obvious reason that wouldn't work or it would be a flaky workflow but they're like £50 a receiver vs £500.
I remember looking at those years back. I don't think they are CRMX compatible, but I could just feed my DMX signal into their transmitter. And I think they are 3pin lxr not 5pin. A bit of working around, but possibly a cheap option, very cheap option!
I suppose this is a great 'DIY' way to do it, but don't you still have the hard wire DMX cables to deal with? Whether from the splitter or another Unit?
Hi Andrew, not familiar with the CRMX/DMX system..hope you can help my learning.. • With this box does it mean that you can now send a wireless signal to the box, which itself is connect up to four separate lights via DMX cables? • Does this still give you full control over all the lights’ different functions? I hear you often mention about DMX channels on reviews, I’m curious if there’s any implications to that with this box setup? • I’m also curious if there’s any issues connecting different lights with different DMX capabilities with this? I suppose the box will receive a signal for output 1 and only send it through to output 1? And if it’s a signal for 1 to 4 (E.g. all fade to black), it will send it across all four outputs? Hope to learn from your experience. Thank you!
All I am doing here is changing between wireless to wired DMX. Without this box my only options to get the DMX commands from my controller to lights that don't have built in receivers is limited to using a wireless receiver (about $500 USD each), or to feed a DMX cable into a light that is receiving the signal from my transmitter or hardwire to the one output on my transmitter. This just enables me the freedom of not having lights wired together in daisy chains. In an ideal world, all the lights would have receivers and I wouldn't need cables at all So we can end up with several lights running in a daisy chain of cables. With DMX the lights don't receive separate commands, they receive all the commands for every light and can relay them via the DMX out. So yes the lights retain all the DMX capabilities. It's the same commands going through each outlet. So it doesn't matter which outlet on the box you connect the lights to.
