The DMX Wall Switch Controller is a simple way to control DMX house lights without the need to plug in and turn on your lighting desk. It’s ideal for small venues without a lighting technician, or simply for doing the cleaning!

The controller has the ability to store two full DMX scenes and output them to the DMX network. Scenes are selected using one or more Wall Plate fixtures.

Unliminted number of Wall Plates, all connected by standard CAT5 cable.

The Controller can be configured to interact with other controllers on the DMX network in a variety of ways. The options are as follows:

If there is a lighting desk on your DMX network, DMX output from the desk is merged with the DMX output by the wall switch controller. This enables the wall switch controller to operate in conjunction with the lighting desk. There are a number of merge modes available, and one will have been set by your installer. This section explains how each mode works.

Highest Takes Precedence

In HTP mode each DMX channel is looked at in turn, and the highest value from the active stored scene in the controller or the lighting desk is taken as the merged output for the given channel. For example, if an active scene in the controller sets a specific channel to 50%, and at the same time the lighting desk sets that channel to 75%, the actual output value for the channel will be 75% (the value in the lighting desk).

Conversely if the lighting desk sets the value to 25% then the output will be 50% (the value in the Controller). It should therefore be noted that in this mode if a scene is active there is no way to reduce the intensity from the lighting desk.

Priority Mode

In Priority Mode the output is determined by the stored value in the active scene in the Controller. That is to say that any non zero value stored in an active scene will be directly transferred to the output regardless of the value on the lighting desk for the channel. Any channels with a zero value in the stored scene will have no effect on the output. If both scenes are active, and both have a value for the given channel, Scene 1 will have priority.

It should therefore be noted that in this mode if a scene is active there is no way to override the intensity from the lighting desk.

Latest Takes Precedence

In LTP mode the output is determined by the last change, regardless of the intensity. For instance activating a scene in the Controller will update the output of all 512 channels to that of the scene, however as soon as the lighting desk updates a specific channels intensity, the output will update to that of the lighting desk.

This means that although a scene in the Controller is switched on, you can fully override the scene from the lighting desk when you want to. Activating a scene in this mode will fully override all channels set by the lighting desk until those channels change in intensity.

In this mode activating a scene in the Controller will automatically deactivate any other active scenes.

Latest Takes Precedence - Non-Zero Channels

This mode is very similar to standard LTP mode, however only channels with an intensity greater than zero in the active scene will be affected when the scene turns on. This alleviates the main problem with LTP mode whereby activating a scene will override all channels on the desk.

Configuration Options Explained