Products DMX512 Lighting Control Systems (DMX over Ethernet, Wireless DMX)

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Products DMX512 Lighting Control Systems (DMX over Ethernet, Wireless DMX)



A DMX512 lighting control system refers to a collaborative collection of products that work together to deliver a DMX-based lighting solution. These products include, but not limited to, DMX controllers, RDM controllers, Ethernet-based controllers, lighting consoles, network gateways, protocol converters, LED drivers, DMX repeaters, control panels, triggering devices, and commissioning tools. By “DMX512”, all we mean here relates to the use of this digital communication protocol in controlling architectural and landscape lighting systems, rather than entertainment and stage lighting equipment for which this protocol was originally designed. With LED lighting taking the center stage, lighting controls are playing an ever more important role in unlocking the technology’s capacity to deliver value. DMX512 has a great deal to live up to, whether it is to enhance architecture, transform an environment, and create a feast for the eyes. With DMX-controlled LED lighting, there are limitless possibilities to inspire the conversation between visual art and lighting technology.

The DMX512 protocol is a system of digital message formats and rules based on the EIA/TIA-485 standard which is commonly known as Recommended Standard 485 or RS-485. DMX is an acronym for Digital MultipleX, which describes a standard method of carrying a stream of data for multiple devices down a single cable. The ‘512’ means that control commands originated by a DMX controller, the device transmitting the DMX512 data and otherwise known as a master device, can be sent on 512 separate channels. Each control channel has a DMX address assigned to it. Each DMX receiver, also called a slave device, is addressed to a unique DMX channel. It will only listen to the addressed channel and respond to commands sent to that address from the controller.





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