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Multiple universes with VM116

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Multiple universes with VM116

Post by wilwahabri »

The software supports 2 universes. However during setup it won't allow me to use 2 VM116's, it says the controllers have to be different.

Anyone tried this or should I get a different interface for 1 universe?


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Re: Multiple universes with VM116

Post by Partyman »

I have not been successful in getting two of the same dongles to work with 2 universes. The only way I can make two universes work (and they work perfectly) is with two different brand devices. I could not even get it to work using one Enttec Pro and one Enttec Open.
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Re: Multiple universes with VM116

Post by remco_k »

The VM116 (or better: its dll that comes along with it), only supports one VM116. A second one wont be accessible to the host application (=FreeStyler). For that reason FreeStyler, whatever it tries to do, won't be able to access 2 of those. I'm not sure, but can imagine that the same problem is with other DMX devices/dll's as well. And maybe a second problem is the SDK's that come with the DLL's, often they are created to just create 1 instance of the library. Not 2 or more.

So in short, I think you are required to buy something else than a VM116. Which isn't a bad thing, because the VM116 is a terribly slow responding device (or did they finally fixed that, 10 years after I ran into that?). I would suggest Enttec Pro.
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