{"id":119,"date":"2014-06-25T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T13:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/?p=119"},"modified":"2014-06-25T10:13:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:13:19","slug":"ecg-p2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/2014\/06\/25\/ecg-p2\/","title":{"rendered":"ECG-P2"},"content":{"rendered":"

After some research I decided to try the ECG-P2 controller from Joshua-1 systems. The ECG-P2 is a E1.31 to Pixel controller allowing you to control 2 banks of pixel strings. Each bank supports 4 DMX Universes of pixels which totals to 680 pixels (4 * 170 = 680px)<\/p>\n

I ordered the controller at the end of 2013 but didn’t really have time to look at it until recently. Also had to order some pixels to use it with and I was taking advantage of some of the preorder sales for that.<\/p>\n

First impression was good. Looks like high quality hardware. Nice case (I opted to pay additional for the included case) and it comes with nice connectors as well.<\/p>\n

I already noticed when ordering that the J1SYS web site could be a lot better in terms of organization and content.<\/p>\n

When I tried to get started I realized that there was no information\/documentation included with the product nor is there any available on the J1SYS web site. After spending a little time on the internet and asking some questions on some forums I was pointed to third party information to help get started.<\/p>\n

In order to use the J1SYS ECG-P2 you need to first make sure that the jumpers are correct<\/p>\n

here is a link to a document that shows all the jumper setting<\/p>\n

http:\/\/clap-supplies.yagoonalights.com\/manuals\/ECG-P2+ECG-D2+Quick+Notes.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

After setting the correct jumpers the next step is to make sure you can communicate with the controller on your network<\/p>\n

The controllers default setting is not using DHCP but a fixed\u00a0IP address of 10.10.10.10 if I remember correctly. If your network is set to using a different subnet (mine is 192.168.1.x for example) you will not be able to communicate directly with the controller until you change the IP address of the controller.<\/p>\n

you can download a third party utility called PIC32UBL that will allow you to set the IP address of the controller to one that works in your network<\/p>\n

http:\/\/clap-supplies.yagoonalights.com\/info-centre\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Make sure the address you use is outside your networks DHCP range and does not conflict with another device on your network<\/p>\n

After setting the ip address on the controller you should now be able to navigate to the ip address using your browser<\/p>\n

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After some research I decided to try the ECG-P2 controller from Joshua-1 systems. The ECG-P2 is a E1.31 to Pixel controller allowing you to control 2 banks of pixel strings. Each bank supports 4 DMX Universes of pixels which totals to 680 pixels (4 * 170 = 680px) I ordered the controller at the end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[21,20],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controller","tag-artnet-ii","tag-e1-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/salzlechner.com\/decorate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}