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Stardraw adds enhanced support for EIB and DMX (4/2/2008)

Integrated Systems Europe 2008

The Stardraw Control product family has recently been updated to provide enhanced support of two more industry-standard protocols, DMX and KNX/EIB.

The long-established pro lighting control protocol DMX is an ANSI standard that is commonplace throughout the entertainment sector and is increasingly prevalent in architectural installations, largely due to the growing popularity of DMX controlled LED fixtures.

Although the base DMX standard allows for a limit of 512 controllable channels, Stardraw Control overcomes this limitation by supporting the Ethernet transport protocols Art-Net, by Artistic License, and PathPort, by Pathway Connectivity. These protocols support multiple DMX universes, each of 512 channels, and Stardraw Control now allows for control and monitoring of any device on any channel in any universe, without having to write any code. The library of Stardraw Control drivers also includes generic DMX device drivers that can be configured to represent any real-world DMX-controlled product.

KNX/EIB is an open protocol for applications in home and building control, ranging from lighting and shutter control to security systems, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, monitoring, alarms, water control, energy management and more. It is approved as European, International and Chinese standards.

Support has been added for COMM-TEC's Ethernet-EIB and RS232-EIB gateways and new drivers have been added to support all types of EIB device from simple switches to dimmers and time, date, character, signed and unsigned I/O devices.

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