Hi paulhairston,
Welcome to the MADRIX board.
MADRIX 5:
You can use any interface as long as it supports one of output protocols featured by the MADRIX 5 software (such as sACN, Art-Net, KiNET,...).
Here you will find a complete overview of the MADRIX 5 software data output capabilities:
http://help.madrix.com/m5/html/madrix/hidd_output.html
Since we manufacture high quality hardware you may also have a look at our range of products. The usage of our hardware products would be of course our recommendation:
https://www.madrix.com/products
MADRIX RADAR:
As you posted in the MADRIX RADAR section of the forum there are some additional things to be considered if you want to use MADRIX RADAR to monitor your installation:
- You will need to use RDM complient interfaces and devices.
- All RDM devices and RDM sub-devices that are connected through MADRIX RDM nodes (MADRIX STELLA) are automatically unlocked and licensed in the software.
- If you don't use the MADRIX STELLA as RDM node only 2 RDM devices/sub-devices are fully unlocked to send RDM requests to or receive from in "Demo mode". That means with a 3rd party RDM node, you will need a so-called MADRIX RADAR fusion license, if you want to monitor more than 2 RDM devices / sub-devices.
Here you will find further information about the license model of MADRIX RADAR:
http://help.madrix.com/radar/html/hidd_ ... ystem.html
I hope this helps you!