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hippoNet
Hippotizer V3 has been designed with multi-machine interaction in mind. HippoNet used standard LAN technology to allow multiple Hippotizers and control computers to communicate and share elements to create one big grid of Hippotizer power.
So how does it work? Well, any Hippotizer V3 system is made up of multiple building blocks called 'components', each component has a specific job such as running a control screen, outputting video to displays, listening to DMX and so on... On a stand alone Hippotizer, there may be up to 50 components all doing their job at the same time - and although this is completely invisible to the user, all component communicates locally and seamlessly with each other using HippoNet.
However, connect several Hippotizers on a network and the real power of HippoNet begins to show. The communication between local components making up one Hippotizer is independent of location. So we can take any of the components that run on one machine and run them on another computer or Hippotizer on the same network. Computers don't have to be fully-fledged Hippotizers; they just need to be running the HippoNet framework. This makes for a truly modular and scaleable system. We can monitor the outputs of the Hippotizer in one place, upload and encode media from another, and program the show from another still. And because each component doesn't care which machine it is on, we can have as many Hippotizers in the system as we want, and be able to monitor and control them all from one or multiple locations.
