Newbie question regarding Artnet and Showtec Pixel bubble

[mrchacha100]

Hi to everyone on the forum.

My question may be very simple but I would greatly appreciate any help any user could offer. A production that we are designing is going to be purchasing Showtec pixel bubbles 80 MKII and we want to output from resolume to this using artnet. Now the fixtures all have artnet inputs and outputs so are we correct in assuming that these can be connected directly to resolume without any need for a DMX dongle? We also run the lighting rig via DMX and a separate program containing midi triggers and the idea was to set up resolume to also respond to midi and run the pixel bubbles directly.

If this is possible, could someone give me a heads up. We don't want to waste a large portion of budget on this if it cannot run directly through artnet.

Thanks in advance!

[Oaktown]

You can run a Showtec pixel bubbles 80 MKII with all the maximum number of LED strings (30 strings or 150 LEDs) with one universe each. If you have more than one Pixel Bubbl, all you'll have to do is to set the universe of the second Pixel Bubble to 2 and so on and so forth. Artnet control will be done via CAT5/6/7 cables and you can daisy chain your Pixel Bubble units


Then in Resolume you would define 5 X 5 RGB pixel fixtures like this:

and stack them like this (up to 6 per universe):

[mrchacha100]

Thank you very much for the help.

It is much appreciated!!!

[Oaktown]

Hopefully that works for you!

I'm attaching the fixture just in case (Zip file). All you have to do is unzip and drop it in the Arena 5 [fixturelibary] folder located in the [Resolume Arena 5] folder.

Pixel Bubble (25 LED Block).xml.zip

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[mrchacha100]

What a gentleman!

Thanks again!

[Oaktown]

My pleasure!

Will you please write back to let me know if this worked as you expected?

[mrchacha100]

Of course. We are waiting on our budget being approved and the equipment being order. once its here we will have 2 weeks to program (hopefully).

I can update you to see how it works all together!

Thanks again!

[mrchacha100]

Hey...just an update. After taking delivery of the bubbles and setting up profiles (which worked perfectly first time, thank you), we have decided to stick with DMX for the protocol for the bubbles. Resolute had started to crash randomly and lock up the computer. As we were also running ableton live for playback and our 2 universes of dmx software on the same machine, to take the chance of it crashing during a performance was unacceptable. Next year, we will definitely try to use this but we have less that a week to program a 2 hour show and don't have the time to bug find. Thanks for taking the time to help and the pixel bubbles displayed the video no problems although with obvious low res viewing.