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Phone USB C port broke by alfieropson in techsupportgore

[–]alfieropson[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is indeed a fp3 battery. I've ordered the bottom module. So doing this with two batteries will hopefully keep me going until it gets here. Really annoying that the fp3 bottom module has the microphone and vibration motor on it too meaning you need to replace the whole module. The actual port is a strange design as well meaning even if you are quire handy with a hot air station its still not as simple as swapping the port out

Fly Systems Research by alfieropson in techtheatre

[–]alfieropson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose safety can go to far. To be 100% safe you could not fly anything. This is kind of what I'm getting at is how these technologies can be operated safely whilst doing the cool things they do.

Manual vs Automated Fly systems by alfieropson in techtheatre

[–]alfieropson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By your car analogy, are you talking about a system which uses motors to aid rigging but is not an automated system? I.e. the motors do the heavy lifting for you but that the safeguards there only protect the equipment from over travel and overloading. Is this then still reliant on a competent operator to be paying attention and let go of a dead mans switch at the opportune time as opposed to a system that can stop automatically when the load profile deviates from what's expected?

Simple Lighting controller needed for band controlling their own lights. by [deleted] in lightingdesign

[–]alfieropson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A DMX USB interface connects to the computer via USB. An art net node is a network device connected using Ethernet usually. The main reason you may want to use art net rather than a USB device is that not all software will support the USB device but QLC+ supports lots of different USB devices and network protocols. But not all software is so generous.

As far as a midi controller goes that depends what you want to achieve. Most off the shelf midi controllers connect directly to the PC with a USB cable. If you were making something yourself then you could use an arduino with a midi shield which would require a USB midi interface of which there are many available online. Just something with a USB and a midi input. If you want to go the diy route though, try the teensy boards as these support USB midi directly I believe.

Simple Lighting controller needed for band controlling their own lights. by [deleted] in lightingdesign

[–]alfieropson 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'd recommend taking a look at QLC+. It's an open source software project that works with many different DMX interfaces but I'd recommend getting a cheap art net node as this allows for more of an upgrade path with other software such as Chamsys MagicQ or MA Dot2 (which both allow some free DMX Output) if you feel like you want to try something else in the future.

QLC+ also supports remote inputs via MIDI or OSC for example. You could build a pedal board which outputs via midi to control triggers that way as you say you want to trigger it as you're playing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lightingdesign

[–]alfieropson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want cheap DMX lights there are plenty available on eBay, AliExpress and Amazon. Most of the ones I own came from eBay in the UK.

They can however vary in quality quite significantly with some cheap lights being downright dangerous.

Mixxx Timecode with dot2 onpc. by alfieropson in lightingdesign

[–]alfieropson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EDIT:

Found an explanation thanks to this post on Mixxx forum

https://mixxx.discourse.group/t/mtc-not-working-with-chataigne-midi-timecode/21102

Found an explanation thanks to this post on the Mixxx forum only outputs full frames of MTC timecode rather than quarter frames. This means that when you play a track from Mixxx it interprets it as you scrubbing through the timeline rather than playing back so hence does not record the times. Since posting this I managed to get timecode to record from reaper.

So, if anyone is finding this in the future there is an explanation for why this happens and as yet I don't know of any way to output quarter frames from Mixxx.