Basic OSC Configuration

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jph
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Real Name: JohnP

Hi!

I am trying to get Bitfocus Companion > OSC > QLC+ > DMX control going at a base level (on Windows 10)

1 DMX channel is successfully controlled by a slider in the Virtual Console.

Bitfocus Companion 2.1.3 is running on 127.0.0.1:8888 and sending OSC commands to 127.0.0.1:7700

QLC+ is configured for OSC 127.0.0.1 on port 7700 for Universe 1 and displays numerous Packets Received

In Input Profile Editor I have both tried the Channel Wizard, and adding a slider with channel 1 manually. When I add it manually I link it as an External Input for the Virtual Console slider.

I have tried OSC paths in Companion including; /1/slider/1, /slider/1, /1/dmx/1, /qlc+/slider/1 and none provide control

I have not been able to find any intelligible documentation for the OSC Channel number calculator.

I have not been able to enable any debugging mode in QLC+ on Windows.

Could anyone please advise on how to troubleshoot this or get it working? Thanks!
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mcallegari
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The input profile editor does the job for you.
Start the wizard and send packets to QLC+.
If none appears, it means there's something wrong on the network/configuration that you should solve first.
I have not been able to enable any debugging mode in QLC+ on Windows.
Released versions, as the name says, do not include any debugging. To debug you need to build a debug version.
jph
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Thanks for the reply Massimo, I recreated my Companion profile and discovered I was mistakenly sending Strings instead of Integers.

If you could either enable -g logging of OSC commands or provide an interface in the application to display the received data and type I think it would make it easier to troubleshoot this type of issue in the future.

And thank you very much for creating this program.
dmxdazzlerz
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John, can you possibly share the integer values you had success with, I too am trying to get companion to talk to Qlite V 5
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