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AlanC
Posts: 7
Joined: Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:43 pm
Real Name: Alan Chavis

Hello all,

I'm a new QLC+ user and I'm trying to set up a lighting system using QLC+ for my cover band. I have several goals that I'm trying to achieve:

- From power up, the light show is in blackout, but ready to start. I've got a Raspberry Pi that I'm trying to configure to run the show.

- Change Chases via MIDI program change (or some other MIDI value), so each song can have a different chase associated with it. The first time I send a program change, it starts the show.

- Next step in Chase is triggered by audio signal.

So far, I've managed to create a variety of Scenes and Chases. On the virtual console, I've created a cue list for each Chase, and an Audio Trigger for each cue list.

Questions:

1. Do all of the above goals seem like they should be possible to achieve?

2. The Audio Trigger Widget has a green check box on it that must be clicked to enable it. Is there any way to make this active by default? If I'm running the Raspberry Pi headless, I don't want to have to log in to enable these every time.

3. Is there a better way to configure QLC+ to achieve these goals (besides cue lists and audio triggers)?

Thanks for your help!

Alan
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AlanC
Posts: 7
Joined: Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:43 pm
Real Name: Alan Chavis

I think I've figured out the MIDI side of things.

Now I just need to know how to auto-enable the audio triggers.

Could I do that with a script somehow?
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siegmund
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Joined: Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:03 am
Location: Germany
Real Name: Lukas

Hey,
AlanC wrote:1. Do all of the above goals seem like they should be possible to achieve?
Yes.
AlanC wrote:2. The Audio Trigger Widget has a green check box on it that must be clicked to enable it. Is there any way to make this active by default? If I'm running the Raspberry Pi headless, I don't want to have to log in to enable these every time.
You can assign a loopback channel as an external input to the enable button. Then activate the loopback channel with a script at startup (set it as startup function). You may need especially these links:
http://www.qlcplus.org/docs/tutorial-soundcontrol.html
http://www.qlcplus.org/docs/scripteditor.html
http://www.qlcplus.org/docs/loopbackplugin.html
http://www.qlcplus.org/docs/functionmanager.html
AlanC wrote:3. Is there a better way to configure QLC+ to achieve these goals (besides cue lists and audio triggers)?
For the different chasers for every song maybe give a frame with multiple pages a try: http://www.qlcplus.org/docs/tutorial-multipage.html
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