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DMX Core 100 - Standalone Controller
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Cosmos ID rename #3

Closed VividRGBLighting closed 10 months ago

VividRGBLighting commented 11 months ago

The term "Cosmos" - while I understand it now in the sense of "universe", is not intuitively understandable.

If I understand correctly - the Cosmos ID is the "recording slot" that the data gets recorded into? So Universe 1 could be recorded into "slot" 7, and then I slot 7 could be assigned to export on universe 4? Or is there a fixed relationship?

Perhaps consider it "DMX Core ID" Or DMX Core Slot? Or some other term that I'm not thinking of yet. Recording slot? Internal Mapping Position? Memory Position?

TBH> I kept reading Cosmos as Cmos - as in CMOS memory. A computer hardware term, or perhaps it had to do with a pin on the processor... I didn't connect it to a bigger conceptual idea of how the hardware was dealing with it.

Do you have concept overview document that would explain this?

HakanL commented 11 months ago

It's not just for recording, it's basically a mapping from internal "universes" to outputs (or inputs in the case of recording). So you can record a cue on let's say universe id 1 and 2 from sACN. Then you set up an output to take Cosmos Id and send it to DMX port A, and Cosmos Id 2 to go out via ArtNet. Or even do both DMX Port and sACN. I don't mind renaming it, but the functionality is powerful, just need to figure out a good explanation for it. "Slot" may be a good term.

VividRGBLighting commented 11 months ago

So it's a matrix of Input universe, Stored universe and output universe? I can send input universe 3 Tell the DMX Core record it as DC Universe 8 when DC plays, play universe 8 as universe 14?

HakanL commented 11 months ago

Yup, it can be mapped in any way you'd like (even if the UI may not currently display all the complex configs. I want a term that means the internal universe id, but I don't want to use "universe id", because it could be mapped to unicast to a specific node via ArtNet, or go out on the internal DMX port, so it's not a 1:1 relationship with sACN universes for example. Maybe Slot is better? So you can record sACN universe 3 into Slot 1. And when you play back you can have that sent to DMX Port A, for example.

VividRGBLighting commented 11 months ago

This is a perfect place to put a "help" button that links you to a page that provides explains the options and also maybe even a sexy graphic

HakanL commented 10 months ago

I renamed it "Slot Id". Also added a Help page.