City Theatrical’s DMXcat fills a technological void of sorts by leveraging smartphone technology to improve on traditionally balky and awkward DMX testing technologies. The DMXcat is two things, a physical DMX interface (dongle) for connecting to the DMX network to be communicated with and the software that runs on your phone. The dongle connects to your phone via Bluetooth. The DMX Tester includes a DMX Analyzer, Transmit DMX and Flicker-Finder function, and for the increasing number of fixtures that support RDM, there’s an RDM Controller that allows discovery, addressing and reading of all the RMD data the fixture supports. Overall, the DMXcat is one of the most intuitive and comprehensive DMX testers I’ve tried.
-Craig Rutherford, from Road Test, PLSN, June 2017, page 78.
