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I am brand new. Am trying to find out if Freestyler will work with an older dimmer pack. I'm not sure if I should ask this here, or at Enttec....

I am wondering if Freestyler will work with an Enttec Pro (or any other USB dongle, for that matter) and run an ETA Ultraplex Model MD410U-40 dimmer pack.
It's an analog/digital dimmer pack, and I'm hoping freestyler will work with it (through the Enttec, or other dongle)

Searched and didn't find any answers.

Thanks.
Roger

AFAIK the Enttec Pro works fine with Freestyler. (Got a Velleman so I admit I haven't actually tried it.)

Assuming the Dimmer pack is DMX compatible you shouldn't have any problems running it either. Simply create a location in Freestyler that contains a bunch of Generic Par Cans, then make sure that all addresses match your Dimmer pack settings.

Should be fairly simple.

Enttec Pro works fine with FreeStyler.

Also if your dimmer pack has a DMX input and you know how to give it a DMX address, then it will work okay.
So indeed, that should be simple.

If your dimmer pack has no DMX input, then its far from simple, even quite impossible.

I found out the ETA Ultraplex MD410U-40 dimmer packs were not DMX compatible. I took it to EMI in Minneapolis (audio/video rental place) and they hooked up a DMX controller to it. Nothing happened. I ended up renting DMX dimmer packs from them, and some software that came with a USB/DMX dongle. Now, to figure out that software (ADJ My DMX).

This will have to do until I build my own Enttec Pro compatible dongle and DMX conrollers, along with LED RGB lighing - and use Freestyler to run it.

Thanks for the help.