Hi Robbie i don't think you can run failover like that... unless you have an A/B switch on you physical DMX outputs... understand me correctly, if you main desk outputting DMX fails, the backup desk won't output DMX through the failed desk - thats another story if running by DP's where the backup desk will take over and output DMX from DP's - or as said, use an A/B switch to switch DMX lines from Main to backup desk.
"if you main desk outputting DMX fails, the backup desk won't output DMX through the failed desk"
That is correct. An A/B switch would be good to have in this case. It really depends on what fails on the primary console. If the desktop process crashes and the internal DP process is still running then it is possible that DMX will still come out of the failed desks even after you switch over to the backup desk. This is not usually what happens in a failover case so having a quick way to switch the DMX lines over is a good idea.
It was my understanding that if you set both consoles to 'console 1' and run server on both, then both consoles will be outputting DMX. In this case if you didn't have an A/B switch you would have to physically move your DMX from Main to Backup.
In addition you will need to set your second console's internal DP8000 to net number 2 and clone your patch from DP8000 1 to DP8000 2. This is because duplicate net nums still cannot exist for DPs even though they can for consoles.
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