Peavey Digital Research

Adding a Dante card to a Nion6

null@example.com (phantomaudio72) — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:49:00 +0000

Greetings

I currently have a nion6 that I've kept at 1.7.2 just for the sake of this experiment.

I've acquired a dante card from a cab4n unit, and would like to use one in my nion6 that had a cobranet card in it. I did make the swap physically, and although it seems to be working in the software, I cannot get any audio through the dante network.

The dante card I've installed is a:
DLM-1-8503 DLM-HU-032FP
Both numbers showing on the circuit board for reference. I'm hoping this card will work in the nion with some minor change needed that I don't know about.

I have a basic benchtop setup currently with my nion6 with dante card, a known good switch, and a different cab4n dante unit with 4-4 output cards.
Dante controller sees both and everything appears set up right, but it's not passing audio to the cab4dan. Nware sees the cab4 and shows the link connected green.

both dante cards in this network are model DLM dante firmware version 3.4.3.2 and hardware version 2.3.9 according to dante controller.

My intent is to use the nion6 with dante as my central processor at the school district I work at to monitor audio paths at various paging cabinets with dual input modules located at each sound closet.
Admittedly, I realize there's easier ways to do this, but I'm using what I have available, and 30 years of install experience. There's 7 schools in the district all connected via fiber and my own network infrastructure.

Thank you for any and all answers!

Nion 6 version:

bios Mar 31 2015 11:07:10
board D
cm1 3.4.3
cpu 405GP (200MHz, rev 1.69 (pvr 4011 0145))
dsp0 silicon: 2 processor: 10
dsp1 silicon: 2 processor: 10
dsp2 silicon: 2 processor: 10
dsp3 silicon: 2 processor: 10
dsp4 silicon: 2 processor: 10
dsp5 silicon: 2 processor: 10
firmware release_1.7.2
fpga $Revision:: 4718 $ $Date:: 2006-04-18 18:09:02 +0100 (Tue, 18#$
kernel Linux version 2.4.17_mvl21-walnut (build@ey-nion-bld01) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release/MontaVista)) #1 Tue Mar 31 10:58:00 BST 2015
firmware_compatibility release 1.2.x - interop 001

XDAB Cables should be exclusively CAT 6 Shielded.

null@example.com (Fergy) — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:54:00 +0000

MediaMatrix pays a premium for what appears to be a simple patch cable, but it is not simple. Our cables are made to an exacting standard and then tested to ensure quality. The failure rate of our included XDAB cables is essentially 0%

Recently we have been asked if "better" cables could or should be used, the answer is no!

CAT 6 vs CAT 6a and CAT 8 have different amounts of twisting from pair to pair to better eliminate crosstalk, which means that differences between pair length comes into question. Because the XDAB is running MUCH faster than Ethernet data and is also clocked within the data pairs, timing (which is impacted by length) is critical.

Think about the length limitations that we have; Ethernet data will travel 100 meters while the XDAB can only go 3 meters on a single cable or 8.2 meters cumulative length.

CAT 6 shielded is exclusively recommended. And because few vendors do a good job of making patch cables, they should still be tested to standards before use!

Fergy

Nion 6 not booting anymore

null@example.com (Jenswizzard) — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:36:48 +0000

Hello everyone, maybe someone has an idea on how to revive my Nion6. It is not booting up any more. Applying power to it lights up the display, the fans start, but after a couple of seconds, the display goes dark and the fans stop. As long as the IEC cord is applied, this continues over and over. I already tried replacing the power supply, but this did not do the trick either. Has anyone any ideas or is it time to look for something new?

In the attached picture, the display shows "normal bootup" for a brief period of time

Thanks

Jens

Bugs found with 3.0

null@example.com (pmullin) — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 22:18:58 +0000

Not sure if this is kosher or not, but, since nobody else has started one, here is a post to discuss issues or bugs found with 3.0 so far...

Opening an existing file and upgrading out of date devices causes all nions to be renamed to Nion #1 - and you cant change the name.
Two name fields under nion device properties - which don't work.
Expression naming for flyoffs doesn't work.

Devices not appearing in the nware remote log

null@example.com (pavalex) — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:53:31 +0000

Ncontrol doesn't always appear in the remote log of nware 1.7.2. Requires reboots until it appears.

Anyone else seen anything similar?

InfoComm 2022

null@example.com (Fergy) — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:00:21 +0000

Are you coming to Vegas for InfoComm? We are introducing many new products. Here are just a few.

https://mailchi.mp/05e4b8e2fa71/crest-a … c4dd89a350

Hope to see you there.

Fergy

Is MediaMatrix dead?

null@example.com (pmullin) — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:21:03 +0000

So... being that i've been trying to get in touch with support for a week... and we havent seen ANY update on software in years... is it safe to assume Peavey is no longer pursuing MediaMatrix? Or has the entire staff jumped ship? Whats the deal?.. I work on a large campus with over 10 nion n6 and many more CAB devices and it's almost time to replace hardware. Should we look at other solutions? Not feeling warm and fuzzy about Peavey MediaMatrix anymore.

Multiple Dante Failures

null@example.com (Nebulous) — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:39:28 +0000

Im runningi a system using a dozen n6 using a dante audio network.
I've been struggling for a little while with packet loss on the receive side of some of the dante cards and I've been fixing it by swapping in replacement nions or dante cards.

After being away for a while I've noticed today that along with the reported packet loss, some of my nions are stopping their roles.
I've been getting error messages something like:

poke peek driver exception waiting for RXDF
and
audio module not found waiting for HF2 to go high

Any tips on troubleshooting this?

Nion 6 Cards Mini Euro Connector Specs

null@example.com (Jenswizzard) — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 05:26:36 +0000

Hello everyone,
I just lost a couple of the mini euro connectors from my Nion 6 and wonder what the exact grid dimension I'd need to get me some new ones. Is it 3,5mm, 3,81mm or something else?
Thanks
Jens

Nion Nx strange connection issue

null@example.com (Coil) — Sat, 29 May 2021 04:27:20 +0000

Hi all,

I just managed to setup my nion nx. This is my first time using mediamatrix. I have configured the IP-settings and are able to see it in NWare and when I deploy a project, i get strange connection time-outs. A small window appears that says "Connection status NION #1 discovering.". The nion nx reports the correct project name but gives "message: EXCEPTION ASSIGNING ROLE: TIMEOUT DURING CONNECT. COMPLETED = NO."

Any ideas?

Kiosk auto start shortcut for version 2.0.0 does not seem to work

null@example.com (neovich) — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:43:08 +0000

I cant seem to figure this one out.

An auto start shortcut for nware2.0.0 into full screen kiosk mode.
Yes, I have done this a lot with 1.7.2 with much success.

I know this is probably not a good idea, but I was able to load the 1.7.2
kiosk ,set up a personality xml file shortcut etc...
It seemed to connect online, with the live nion ( v 2.0.0 ) project.
There were a couple of strange things that happened.
One was a restricted page link ( account ) that caused the kiosk page to show a
locked white screen. ( oh no ! )

Anyway, It would be great to get the 2.0.0 auto login short cut working.
Please let me know if i am missing something here. The documentation is not helping me.
( windows 10 machine)

Cheers

Multiple files on nion

null@example.com (tkroeker) — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:07:52 +0000

I cant seem to have more than one option on the nion. When I connect with a kiosk laptop the only project is the last one I deployed. Any ideas?

nware 1.7.2 - kiosk help - not seeing nion over VL

null@example.com (neovich) — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 07:40:46 +0000

We have set up an N6 nion over a virtual lan set up.
The nion n6 project is up and running ok and we can connect directly at this point to the network.

However, It seems over the Vlan , the kiosk software cannot detect the nion n6.

We have got 1.7.2 kiosk on the PC and we can even ping the nion n6from this same kiosk PC .
but the kiosk does not seem to pick up the nion ?
Is there a broadcast ip range or some sort of staitc proxy route we can configure , so that the kiosk can see the
nion ? I am assumming the nat is stopping some data here.
Is there a setting I am missing here somewhere ?
Any help would be appreciated .

Wayne

External Control User Log in

null@example.com (Jenswizzard) — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:28:35 +0000

Hello, this might be a pretty noob question, but I can't for the life of me not find a way to get my tcp/ip client to log a user in onto my nion6.
I got one for a house that I'm renovating and wanted to develop some Crestron Control modules using RACT2. Crestron is my main job, so it should work somehow. I did a project in nWare 2.0.0, told my nion to use RACT2 on Port 1632 as default and deployed it, Everything seems good so far. To get my feet wet in RACT2, I did a connection with YAT, basically a terminal program. The connection is established, the help command works fine, but what user do I have to log in? Neither the superuser with no password or the defaultuser worked. I created a control user with basically all rights, but this one did not work either. So basically I'm just getting loginFailed or notLoggedIn. What am I missing? Firmware is the latest one 2.0
Thanks Jens

send command to external device

null@example.com (phantomaudio72) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:16:57 +0000

Hello. Hope everyone is of good health..

I am trying to get something to work that I believe will work, but I haven't done before.

I want a button on the 180HD screen to send a simple 'power on' command to a projector, and another button to 'power off' the projector. I can do the buttons, but how to send the command eludes me, as well as where it transmits from.

Can someone point me in the right direction of this- do I use the 232 as an output? or the 422/485

thanks!