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bitfocus / companion-module-generic-sacn

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Multicast missing #7

Open sstaub opened 1 year ago

sstaub commented 1 year ago

sACN is mainly a multicast protocol, this module does only unicast which should not used.

2429Technologies commented 1 year ago

excuse me if i have got this wrong, i am new to github, is this where i should check if there is any update on this?

jf5264835 commented 2 days ago

It is poorly (not) documented, but whether the sACN traffic is unicast or multicast depends entirely on the value of the "Receiver IP" in the connector settings:

If "Receiver IP" in the connector settings is set to a multicast address (e.g., 239.255.0.1 for Universe 1), the traffic is multicast.
If "Receiver IP" in the connector settings is set to a unicast IP address (e.g., 192.168.1.100), the traffic is unicast.

So in a multi universe setup you'll still need a connector for each universe, you'll still need to set the correct universe for each connector, and then you'll need to set the correct multicast IP for each connector.

For Example: Universe 1: 239.255.0.1 Universe 2: 239.255.0.2 ... Universe 255: 239.255.0.255 Universe 256: 239.255.1.0 Universe 257: 239.255.1.1 and so on.