Control with Elegato Streamdeck
Posted: 18 February 2020, 12:15
You can see a demo of The Lighting Controller controlled from an Elegato Streamdeck XL at https://youtu.be/ZXqoXWrK5jI.
This is a fantastic way to give your lights a physical button desk (with pagination support).
This uses the Open Source Bitfocus Companion (https://bitfocus.io/companion/), which runs on Windows/Mac/Linux and also has a headless web interface (so can run a Rasberry Pi!)
It talks to The Lighting Controller over TCP (same as Live Mobile) using a custom module I built (https://github.com/bitfocus/companion-m ... controller).
Currently, you will need to build from source as Companion 2.0 is in alpha, instructions can be found at their site (https://github.com/bitfocus/companion/wiki/Installation). If you find any issues, or would like to request more features, raise issues on GitHub.
Features:
1. Fully synchronise button Name/Color/Icons(Type) based on position on page in Controller. (Or you can give your own names)
2. Supports Toggle (default - equivalent to the controller) or also Press/Release - which is great for solo page buttons (i.e. you can prevent accidental toggling off!)
3. Timed fade on button press, and button level indication (based on configurable background color for fader). Also synchronises Fader name.
4. Freeze toggle, Audio BPM toggle.
5. Full BPM system that has advanced tap support, and sends Beats to controller, unless in Audio BPM mode, at which point tapping sends an individual Beat command.
6. Full control of Sequential Lists and Timeline (not shown on video)
7. Tie multiple actions to single physical button press, including delays (e.g. Start Timeline, wait 5s, Stop Timeline)
... and much more!
The Companion software can be used to control many other devices, including AV controllers, Sound desks, projectors, Spotify, Twitch, etc. so you can have a single button set to configure your sound desk, begin a slide deck on your projector, cue your video switcher, start your Facebook live stream and set a light scene!
I hope you find it as useful as I do, this is entirely open source and free to use!
This is a fantastic way to give your lights a physical button desk (with pagination support).
This uses the Open Source Bitfocus Companion (https://bitfocus.io/companion/), which runs on Windows/Mac/Linux and also has a headless web interface (so can run a Rasberry Pi!)
It talks to The Lighting Controller over TCP (same as Live Mobile) using a custom module I built (https://github.com/bitfocus/companion-m ... controller).
Currently, you will need to build from source as Companion 2.0 is in alpha, instructions can be found at their site (https://github.com/bitfocus/companion/wiki/Installation). If you find any issues, or would like to request more features, raise issues on GitHub.
Features:
1. Fully synchronise button Name/Color/Icons(Type) based on position on page in Controller. (Or you can give your own names)
2. Supports Toggle (default - equivalent to the controller) or also Press/Release - which is great for solo page buttons (i.e. you can prevent accidental toggling off!)
3. Timed fade on button press, and button level indication (based on configurable background color for fader). Also synchronises Fader name.
4. Freeze toggle, Audio BPM toggle.
5. Full BPM system that has advanced tap support, and sends Beats to controller, unless in Audio BPM mode, at which point tapping sends an individual Beat command.
6. Full control of Sequential Lists and Timeline (not shown on video)
7. Tie multiple actions to single physical button press, including delays (e.g. Start Timeline, wait 5s, Stop Timeline)
... and much more!
The Companion software can be used to control many other devices, including AV controllers, Sound desks, projectors, Spotify, Twitch, etc. so you can have a single button set to configure your sound desk, begin a slide deck on your projector, cue your video switcher, start your Facebook live stream and set a light scene!
I hope you find it as useful as I do, this is entirely open source and free to use!