Is there a way to somehow send a trigger to a smart home hub (SmartThings in my case) from QLC+? I have some general lighting around the building that is controlled by SmartThings. I'd basically like to figure out a way to send an on/off signal to SmartThings so that it can turn on those lights as needed (before and after events, largely).
I've thought of two ways to attempt this, but both seems rather "messy." I have an Eliminator brand DMX controller with AC outlets and I thought about plugging something into it that was SmartThings enabled and creating a rule where if it was powered on or off SmartThings would react, but I suspect it would take several seconds for the smart device to power up and be registered by SmartThings, so the latency would be awful.
The other thought was to use the Art-Net to Hue bridge I've read about on here to control Hue lights and then have a Hue light that, when activated, turns on the other lights. (Since SmartThings can detect a Hue bulb's state and then make other adjustments in reaction.) However, that means I'd have to have one Hue fixture that's whole purpose was to bridge between DMX and SmartThings/Zigbee/Zwave. It seems like there should be a cleaner way to do it, especially since the SmartThings is on the same local network as QLC+. Is there a way to have a "device" in QLC that sends a request to a local HTTP address, for example?
Thanks for any thoughts you might have!
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