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Custom OSC output

Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 11:17 pm
by anorod
Hi,

I'm trying to control light and video projections with QLC+ and the way I found so far is with OLC. So I have the next scenario:
- QLC+ Controlling DMX on one computer
- VPT (Video Projection Tool) with different presets which I can select to reproduce via OSC with commands like /cue 1 or /cuenext etc...

I would love to send the OSC commands with QLC+ when I hit a cue/button or I put a channel in a value (for example when channel 500 is 1 send /cue 1 when is 10 send /cuenext or when one channel hits 255 send /cuenext).

Any ideas or clues about how to do it?. I can also use other program different from VPT, but it's the only OpenSource one I've found to interact with OSC or ArtNet.

Thanks!

Re: Custom OSC output

Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 6:06 am
by plugz
Hi,

For now there is no built in solution in QLC+.

A solution would be to have a "middle man" that will convert output from QLC+, to the desired input for VPT.
A simple program to use for this is "processing" with an OSC plugin (http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/oscP5/)
(You need to know at least a little bit of java to do this.)

Keep us updated :)

PS: What OS on each of the two computers ?

Re: Custom OSC output

Posted: Wed May 06, 2015 11:14 am
by anorod
Thanks plugz!

I think I can make it work with that library. I'll post here the code when I finish the testing. Both systems are MacOsX (right now they are even the same computer, but I wanted to have it ready in case I use 2 computers even with different OS).

On the other hand, maybe I'm thinking it wrong from the start. My idea is to control the projections and lighting with the same controls like they do here with VDMX:
- https://youtu.be/nG199215nXg

But so far the only way to do it with opensource is using OSC like I did, even when looking for a software that runs in only one OS instead of Win/Mac :cry: .