[PD] Lanboc-LCX w/ Pd

[brandt at subnet.at]

hi

as far i can remember i used midi for controlling the lights. since i  
am not in my home office, i can´t looö for the patch. it could be  
possible, that i made it with a pair of lsb/msb midi controllers.

cheers
markus


Zitat von "Alexandros Drymonitis" <adrcki at gmail.com>:

> Reading through the manuals I'm trying different stuff. Thought of
> connecting to the lanbox (I spelled it wrong in the subject of this thread)
> via [comport]. I do get connected, but can't really see how to send
> commands.
> I'm trying to connect via [tcpsend] via ethernet cause I think it's easier
> to send commands in ASCII (looks easier to me at least), but the manual
> says that the lanbox will ask for a password (which is 777 followed by a
> carriege return, so in ASCII it will be 55 55 55 13). So I'm sending
> [connect 192.168.1.77 4777( to [tcpsend], Pd freezes for a while and the
> the console says 'tcpsend: connecting to port 4777', but if I immediately
> after send [55 55 55 13( to [tcpsend] the console says 'tcpsend: not
> connected'. Anyway, the toggle underneath [tcpsend] never goes to one, so
> no connection is actually established.
> Any ideas on this one guys?
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis  
> <adrcki at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Actually all I need to do is control two white lights which are connected
>> to a DMX dimmer each. I've done a simple setup on lanbox's software, but
>> can't really see how to control it via Pd. It's on channels 1 and 2, so I
>> guess I need to send something like a list with the channel number and the
>> brightness number, right? what's the exact syntax for [udpsend]?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:31 PM, <brandt at subnet.at> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> i worked with it and as alexandros said it´s really easy. i once made a
>>> patch, which was a kind of simulation of an avolite board from the
>>> eighties. worked straight out the box
>>>
>>> all the best
>>>
>>>
>>> Zitat von dreamer <dreamer at puikheid.nl>:
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki at gmail.com
>>>> >wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>  Has anyone used the Lanbox-LCX sending it control data from Pd? On
>>>> lanbox's
>>>>
>>>>> website I saw that it also receives TCP commands. Would mrpeach
>>>>> library's
>>>>> [tcpsend] do?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Yes I have. You can control the lanbox-lcx with simple TCP/UDP commands.
>>>> At least we used [udpsend] to transmit the datapackets (looking back at
>>>> my
>>>> patches. it's also from mrpeach).
>>>> But [tcpsend] should work just the same (we had to enable UDP-mode in the
>>>> firmware afaik).
>>>>
>>>> I have borrowed a prototype lcx+ but I don't have it working at the
>>>> moment.
>>>> All I can tell you that it is quite trivial to interface with the lanbox.
>>>> If you need any more specific information I can get it from one of the
>>>> devs
>>>> if you want :)
>>>>
>>>> grtz,
>>>> drmr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>