Hey everyone I swear I’ve scoured the board for a recommendation on this one but I haven’t seen anything so gonna use this a chance to post my first question.
I have a Denon Prime 4 along with a Control One from Soundswitch. I have everything setup, my lights sync to my music, autoloops and static looks I configure through soundswitch all work great. Its an amazing setup, and as a mobile/wedding DJ I honestly couldn’t ask for a better solution.
I’ve used my full setup at roughly 5 events so far this year, couples love the light shows and no one’s had anything but good things to say. But I’ve noticed my lights at the far end of a room seem to lose connectivity with my wireless DMX transmitter pretty consistently. Currently, I’m using a Donner Wireless DMX dongle that plugs directly into universe 1 on the Control One. Its been great up until now, but I have bigger venue shows coming up and I’m pretty sure the Dongle is the root cause for my signal dropping out over distance.
Does anyone know of a proven wireless DMX transmitter/Dongle outside of the Donner one that works with the Control One and the Prime 4? I don’t think the Prime 4 would have compatibility issues with a transmitter/dongle since its not directly connected so its more so a question for the Control One itself.
Any help/feedback with this is greatly appreciated, I’ve used this forum to answer so many questions when I was first starting out with the Prime 4 and its been an amazing source of knowledge for me. So big shout out to whoever contributes here, you have no idea how much time you’ve saved so many people over the years.
Hardware list in case its relevant
Denon Prime 4
Control One
Donner Wireless DMX Dongle
Rockville PAR60 Uplights
Rockville Spot 260W Spot Lights
Both Lighting Pixel Tubes
Is it possible to use a DMX cable to place the Dönner dongle to a higher place (on top of your truss, on top of the totems? Or just some place away from other electronics which could hinder the signal.
Use a second transceiver set to a different color somewhere halfway your setup to extend the reach. (so, receiver into the dmx-in of a fixture, and te secondary transceiver into the dmx-out)
Or use a cable whenever possible. We also use the chauvet system at weddings, but it aint entirely trouble free. Now, audio is more my thing, I let the other guy fumble around with lights, but if it was my choice I would just draw a cable…
I had some eurolite lights with integrated quickdmx wireless. So recently i bought the transmitter to use the system. I am quite happy with that, but don’t know what your distances are. They state like 400 meter range.
I also think the Chauvet use the same system with the 2,4 ghz (maybe interchangeable )
Thing is everything gets thrown into that 2.4 GHz band, so depending on the location, venue, WiFi, live band with wireless guitar and mic transmitters, Bluetooth, wireless surveillance cameras, you name it, you can get funny things…
I’m not saying it never works, it often does… sometimes it doesn’t. but in pro audio and lighting world, most techs will use a wire whenever they can.
I am also using wired most of the time. But had for the fun factor tried the wireless stuff. I used it in the central of my city, so other frequencies are are around me. Had good results on the 20-30 range. Just answering possible solutions for @Umar_Iqbal if he really wants to use the wireless protocoll
Big thanks to everyone for the replies and feedback, had a question specific to the Chauvet system. All of my lights already have wireless DMX built-in, if I were to use the Chauvet transmitter I’m assuming I would need to use the Chauvet receivers for that system to work? Right now I just make sure the Donner dongle is set to the same DMX color code as the lights and it works, can’t beat the convenience for sure.
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