Can you run DMX at a slower baud rate and smaller universe?

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chuddy117
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Hi all, we're working on a project where we're trying to get an RS485 adapter working via UART on an Orange Pi. Unfortunately, the Orange Pi UARTs don't support 250kbps so we can't run a full universe of 512 channels. Realistically, we only need a maximum of 16 channels in the universe, so is it possible to hard code the baud rate at something much less than 250kbps and have it work?
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here is the method that copies DMX data to outputBuffer: https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... et.cpp#L79
here is the method that sends outputBUffer to UART: https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... et.cpp#L93
m_outputBuffer is QByteArray http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qbytearray.html

I hope you can figure out the rest :) If not, ask again.
chuddy117
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Thank you! I will review.
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