DMX Shield for Arduino (RDM Capable)

Name: DMX Shield for Arduino (RDM Capable)
SKU: 773
Price: 19.95 USD
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 3.61 (9 reviews)

(9 Reviews)

DMX Shield for Arduino (Remote Device Management Capable)

Designed by Conceptinetics in China

$19.95

Out of Stock

Sold out since Aug 31, 2020

DMX Shield for Arduino (Remote Device Management Capable)

Overview This DMX / RDM Shield is a low cost high quality solution that allows you to connect your Arduino driven artwork into DMX512 networks. The shield is populated with high quality NEUTRIK XLR 3…

Overview

This DMX / RDM Shield is a low cost high quality solution that allows you to connect your Arduino driven artwork into DMX512 networks. The shield is populated with high quality NEUTRIK XLR 3pin Connectors (1x male and 1x female)

The MAX485 based shield can be used as DMX Master, Slave and as RDM transponder A unique RDM device id will be handed out from out range to you as well, this will make your device worldwide unique

The following settings are configurable via the onboard jumpers:

Send data via TX or Digital pin 4
Receive data via RX or Digital pin 3
Hardware slave mode or Software Controlled Slave/Master via Digital pin 2 (Required for RDM)
Enable / Disable shield **

** In case you have the shield configured to use the RX and TX pins you have to disable the shield before you can upload your new sketch onto the Arduino board. This jumper allows you to disable the shield without disconnecting it from the Arduino board which saves time.

Software

The shield comes standard in a 3pin NEUTRIK XLR version, 5 pin versions are only assembled on request, contact us for pricing and delivery times and or any other additional requests or services.

The Conceptinectics DMX Library for Arduino can be downloaded from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dmxlibraryforar

The library comes with few examples showing how to create a DMX Master or DMX Slave project... The Remote Device Management part of the library will be released soon as well.

Package and Shipping details

The package will contain one fully assembled ready to use Shield and a uniquely assigned RDM UID from our own range.

We use economy shipping 10-22 days worldwide

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Quantity	Price
1-24	$19.95
25-49	$13.95
50-99	$12.95
100-499	$11.95
500+	$10.95

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.00)

Documentation: (2.86)

Shipping: (3.57)

Communication: (4.00)

Peter | Feb. 11, 2020

Just received the 2 ordered Shields

NOTE: The Tindie Review site forced me to rate Product, Documentation, and Communication for which I have no experience. I will rate them at a later date.

I just received the two units after waiting one month for delivery - fact, not complaint.

Good thing the cardboard box was well taped, the entire box was dripping wet and only held together by the clear packing tape. It was left by my door on a dry day so it must have gotten wet during shipping - it was thoroughly soaked ! The two Shields were packaged in heat sealed anti-static bags. Unfortunately, one of them leaked and the PCB and the foam the protruding leads were stuck in was dripping wet and some water poured out of the bag on opening - there seamed to be a very small hole in the bag where a pin had poked through.. The other Shield was bone dry. There was minimal corrosion on the wet Shield PCB which looked like the solder flux from the secondary hand soldering of the large connectors - cleaned up nicely with alcohol and I don't expect any issues. The dry one showed no signs of corrosion - only a little left over solder flux from the hand soldering process.

I am overall impressed with the boards and parts and heavily disappointed in the shipper which was China post and then USPS in the states. I think it was wet longer than the time it was in the states so probably got wet on the way from Shanghai where the package originated.

I will post more regarding the operation when I get this project rolling next month.

Njål | April 21, 2017

Good quality product.

Received the prduct a little later than the estimated 22 days, but it finally got here.

The product in it self is of good quality and simple to work with, programming with the packaged liberary is easy, it could have been a bit better documented.

Bonne | Jan. 3, 2016

some kind of trouble

The product seems to be good quality,
however i can't make it works in slave mode with the example sketch, led on pin 13 never lights on OR never turns off. it seems to bee no response at all. my DMX signal is OK and i try a 120 ohm resistor on the output XLR with no amelioration. Did someone had the same problem? is it possible that be the result of some electromagnetic perturbation ?
if you have any leads contact me on the forum http://discuss.tindie.com/

Mladen | Nov. 28, 2015

Good service

Fast delivery and good service.
You have satisfied customer here.
Will buy again.

Ivan | Feb. 11, 2015

problem running basic examples sketch

I Had a problem running examples sketch, while trying to make it work as Slave.
The led on 13 pin was always turn on. I was able to solve it turning on arduino board wait a second and the plug XLR DMX signal to the shield.
If I turn on arduino board (with DMX shield) with DMX signal plug it does't works.
Do you Know any wait to solve this problem without having to wait to plug DMX signal?
thanks

Casey | Dec. 6, 2014

Great Product, Hard to Get Started

Hello,

I have found this product, the DMX Shield, to be in great condition and of good quality.

However, I found getting it setup to be a bit of a challenge. Of course, ordering this product, even finding this website, you probably have a bit of tech skills. But, given I would qualify myself as such I still found it difficult to get the project started. Some of the Arduino sketches would not compile, and the LED blink (simplest of all) would not work. Needless to say I had to abandon the project as the development timeline was tight.

That is not to say it does not work, or you shouldn't get it. You just need to be well versed in electronics and have patience to get it working.

Here is a video explaining such blockages: http://youtu.be/i5IQNTGWybs?list=UUMp5mn-majlSdQEAnNHsuDw

Perhaps it is just a new product, but it would be great to see very clear documentation that was accessible from the site rather than having to chug through it on one's own.

Either way, still a positive rating. I will get it to work one day.

Manuel | Nov. 1, 2014

E' un ottimo prodotto

La vostra scheda DMX è ottima, fa quello che deve fare, dovreste farne una per Teensy 3.1 o 2.0++ , in passato ho acquistato da un rivenditore italiano il vostro prodotto e mi ero trovato già molto bene, ci ho fatto un convertitore MIDI CC a DMX che uso con FLStudio per la gestione rapida delle luci nei locali associato a TOUCH OSC su tablet, controllare con tanta semplicità degli impianti luci è fantastico.
Dovreste integrarci anche un pannello LED numerico (a 3 numeri) e due pulsanti almeno, sarebbe così perfetta!
Adesso mi sto costruendo una Luce DMX con ottimi (usando come slave la vostra scheda) con buoni risultati, ho qualche problema con la scelta del canale iniziale.
In futuro acquisterò ancora il vostro prodotto.
Nel frattempo avrei piacere a contattarvi per avere delle delucidazioni, un lavoro molto bello con questa scheda, GRAZIE!
p.s. migliorate l'imballaggio! Review Image

Kevin | July 7, 2014

Good shield, works well

The shield works as expected. I'm using it as a slave to receive a DMX signal. Switching jumpers to enable/disable the board is kind of a pain (a switch would've been nicer), but it's possible to set the jumpers to read the signal from pins 3 and 4. If setup to read from those pins, it's no longer necessary to disable the shield when uploading, which is nice.

Roland | Dec. 2, 2013

Technically everything ok - invoice missing

Hello,

after a journey (China to Germany) which took a few days the DMX shield arrived and we are already using it without a problem.

We got problems at another area: German customs withheld the package and we had to go there get it ourselves, because they need an invoice at the outside of the package.

Actually there is no invoice at all, except the email we got immediately after the order. I hope I won't get into additional trouble with our finance department over that!

But as I said: Technically everything seems ok.

Cheers
rph

Response from Conceptinetics | Dec. 17, 2013

Hi,

I'm happy to hear that technically everything is fine, however... your customs issues is unfortunately something that only happens in Germany and German customs is not the only place where the package have to go trough.

In the past I tried to get things easier into Germany by doing so and it really doen't matter, they just come up with another reason why they keep it till the maximum period. though they usually let it eventually go trough.

I can only hope they will become nicer to things being shipped from China, for sure for such low value items.

Cheers

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