So Ive tried the Entec ODE interface and the art-net poll on windows and 088 with now issues, however when running 099 in MacOS the Poll does not find any interfaces. I do have the interface working in OSX with Madmapper fine however I cant get TD to see it…anyone have any insight on this one?
running 10.12.1 on a
2011 MBP 15in
quad-core
512mb of vram
16gb of ram
Are you talking about the ArtNet DAT? Not all Art-Net devices respond to Art-Poll packets even though they will still receive Art-Net data (or send it). I don’t have an ODE to mess with but considering they have their own proprietary protocol (ESP) and config software (NMU) that does everything Art-Poll was intended to do,. I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t implement Art-Poll response capabilities in the firmware. I could be wrong, but I’ve seen plenty of Art-Net devices that don’t respond to polls but work fine otherwise.
SO the ODE is seen by touchdesigner in windows but not in MacOS thats what the issue im having is…
Interesting. That might be a networking issue with the mac (check your firewalls?) but there’s also a chance there’s a bug in the mac version of TD’s ArtNet DAT.
im thinking its a bug because the ODE works fine with Madmapper
Have you tried applying the terminal command as mentioned in macOS Known Issues? It might be related although initially intended for Enttec USB Pro.
trying this now…standby
just realized I don’t even have the ftdi driver installed due to the fact that Im using the ethernet interface. could that be part of the issue?
No you’re right, shouldn’t need that for the ethernet version.
Thanks for confirming, I can confirm that the DMX out chop does work correcting using art-net however the art-net dat I cant seem to get working at all. Is this operator only used for grabbing info from the interface? Initially I thought it was needed to use the DMX out chop however it doesn’t looks like it…
Hey,
the Art-Net DAT is only to retrieve properties and settings from Art-Net devices in the network.
This can be especially useful if you need to figure out which universes the devices are set to or even what IP the devices are configured with.
We did reproduce an issue with the DAT on OSX and also on some windows machines and are looking at it.
Cheers
Markus
Thanks for the reply and explaination! Good to know that I am not going mad!
Now if I could just figure out how to use the channel setting in the DMX out chop 
in packet-per-sample mode, you need to connect a CHOP to the DMX Out CHOP that has multiple single-sample (aka time-sliced) channels in it like the default output of a Constant CHOP. In this instance, each channel is the next consecutive DMX address. If you need to send something to a very high DMX address then you need to put a bunch of dummy channels in before it.
In packet-per-channel mode, you need to connect a CHOP to it that has one or more multi-sample channels in it, in which case each channel becomes a DMX Universe, and each sample is the next consecutive DMX address starting from one. You tell the CHOP which “TouchDesigner channel” to send to which “DMX Universe” with the attached Routing Table DAT.
In both cases, make sure your channel(s) is / are outputting values between 0 and 255, which you’ll have to scale up with a Math CHOP or similar before sending to the DMX Out CHOP. Most values in TouchDesigner are all based on floats of 0 to 1 or -1 to 1
WOW Peeet this is more than I could have asked for! Thanks so much! I was able to figure out the per sample mode but was having trouble with the per channel mode.Your explain lays it out very well and is much more clear now.
Thanks again!
