Dear All,

Please pick up this discussion here: http://troikatronix.com/troikatronixforum/discussion/378/midi-show-control-what-do-you-use#Item_1 Ciao! M

playing with the serial text watcher is crashing my constantly.

@Mark ,Can you please let me know if this will do what I want for now.

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"7E" [?] "E7"
msg : string = [4c]

will this create a message that is a string and 4 characters long from a selection that is between '7E' and 'E7' ??

thanks

Glad to hear you were able to move ahead.. I still plan to do some testing, and will post my finding once complete.

Why do you think you are missing values - is the message being sent regularly every 1 sec - do you see values update once a second ?

Binary serial watcher might be misleading you as it displays different info - it will trigger after every 4 bytes - any 4 data bytes that come down the serial port - each digit is a byte, and so are the commas, carriage return etc... so you will get multiple triggers firing on the binary actor for each single trigger firing on the character watcher that reads 11 values - when you are only sending a couple of values they will both trigger around the same rate - but as the message gets longer the binary actor will trigger more times for each received message

No video to deal with on this project.. purely sound and light.
Thanks for the feedback.

Hello Tilo,

you can find many more LanBox actors (using the TCPIP connection) here:

http://troikatronix.com/community/#/discussion/134/actors-for-using-tcpip-connection-of-the-lanbox

The Lanbox actors "Lanbox Channels" and "Lanbox RGB out" use UDP, but I find it much more convenient to communicate with my actors. Maybe you have time to try them out? They can be downloaded from the LanBox download section:

http://www.lanbox.com/download.php?view.48

You'll find a woking example there with 24 channel faders and 1 scene fader. You'll also find an actor which stores the actual DMX output as a cuestep - this actor is really complicated programming!

Best,
gunther

thanks. Who knows. It is a 8 pin mini din cable but is it crossed?

this is an explaining pdf 8 pin to RS 232... After lots of research I found this RS232 to 8 pin mini din cable for vc cameras. http://www.streakwave.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=RS%2D232C&eq=&Tp= But the camera output of rs 232 is 8 pin too. SO I probably need just 8 pin to 8 pin cables.... and there are different configurations of the pins.... The good one is this http://www.streakwave.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=PA%2DV16&eq=&Tp= SO I probably need a 8 pin to 8 pin cable similar to this plug  I cross fingers...

I downloaded it last week, but only got around to installing today.
I can see many instances where I could use a timeline like this.

I don't know about the other stuff but just trying to imagine what Common Integrated Tactical Picture means opens a whole world of possibilities.

thanks for all this info, Wlad. Checking it out. Hi to Matthew Haber.. been following your work for a while now.  :)

Very cool... would be nice if they'd port it for the Mac too!

-- M

Yes, for /isadora-multi/X (X is 1 to 4) it's 100.

-- M

Hello Nick (& Mark),

Thanks for the reminder on the separator bit. That's helpful.

Here's an update -- I've done another round of more systematic testing and have learned a more things:

1. Unclocked LED's (eg. the WS2811) are fussy, fussy, fussy about power : a small difference ground potential (10mv)  between my computer's USB cable shield / V-; and V- on the Led array after ~ 15 pixels turns out to be enough to make the controller chip on the LED's hang, which appears to stall  serial data transmission from the teensy, which causes Izzy to hang. Tying together the grounds at the end of the strings (in addition to beginning) resolved the difference in ground potential, and some of the crashes.

2. Once the v- difference was resolved I've been able to get the attached patch to transmit at a serial rate 215k. Right now I can get 1024 channels to run at a refresh rate of ~12 hz, and 2048 at ~6hz. Once it exceeds that the serial port hangs, izzy hangs, and then crashes (similar issue to what happens if the enttec is overloaded).

3. Getting rid of the separator bit helped the throughput a lot - thanks for the reminder.

4. When the Matrix send actor channel number are edited (whether or not the serial port is enabled) Izzy is still sometimes crashing.

I've just attached the serial to teensy patch for reference.   Mark -- I've just sent you the crash log.

Once I get the Teensy piece working more reliably I'll post that code as well. A $19 controller (the teensy price)  for a 1000 LED pixel array is pretty enticing.

Thanks,

Ian

446d8e-izzy-to-serial-teensy.izz

Great suggestion Ian, but alas, while I've had some problems with CueMix, I'm showing a healthy level in CueMix. Same input shows a good level in Isadora when looking at the input bars in the Input window, but when using the sound-in watcher actor, a loud input only shows .02xyz or less.

Not a crisis at this moment, but something I will pursue shortly. Thanks again John

if you have knowledge of max you can use this app, C74  http://nr74.org/software/c74.html

it even sells itself on the app store with " bridge between your iOS device and several desktop applications like...Isadora." you can access, GPS, accel, gyro, compass, shake, proximity and microphone, and create your own interface like with touch osc. i found it straight forward to use, you can then send the data to isadora from the max patch via MIDI or OSC. watch a demo here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kcDjlwqs238 best, lanz

Hey skulpture and Armando thanks for your replies,

@armando did you get isadora working with multitouch using TUIO protocol and it was coming in ok?  if so what data does it give you?  best, Lanz

Thank you everyone! I actually asked the same question on forums liine

Note that on the Express series consoles, the commands sent out will always use 01 (lighting command) in the "command format" byte position.  See section 4.1 of the MSC 1.0 spec for info about command formats http://www.richmondsounddesign.com/docs/midi-show-control-specification.pdf

David

looks like a cheap DH2G substitute. Amazon Uk are selling them at £33. here's a quote from one customer's review:

"I tried this with a 2012 Macbook Pro, 1 HDMI TV and a 23 inch monitor. Both the TV and Monitor can reach 1920x1080 independently, but when using this adapter I could only ever see 2560x1024."

@MatthewH: thanks for the hardware suggestion.

@craigw: The venue does not have its own equipment: they always rent it, let's hope the edge blending projectors will be available at the time I need them. Thanks. --8