Show Cue System

When I was experimenting with different settings for the projector, I remember that it did seem to be present in standby mode but during power-up, the Windows OS (W10) seemed to renegotiate the connection as though I just plugged in the cable and SCS would report the number of screens changed and wo...

Currently (V11.8.3), a second (or higher) screen must be connected before scs is started if it is to be used to display a video cue. Connecting it after SCS is running results in SCS recognizing the number of screens has changed, but it won't be used unless SCS is restarted. Would there be any way t...

Some thoughts on implementing a chase light cue, based on suggestions above and also other info I've picked up: Each step in a chase would be set up as a Lighting Cue with an Activation Method of 'Call Cue'. Some lighting boards refer to these steps as 'scenes'. No change is required to SCS for set...

I agree it should be a 'Production Property'.

Bruce

Note that devices like the ENTTEC DMX interfaces maintain sending the DMX values, so to start opening the curtain it is only necessary for the relevant DMX channel value to be sent once by SCS - the ENTTEC device will keep up the transmission until another value is sent by SCS. This makes it feasib...

While this is a good suggestion, I think you will need a way to exclude any DMX channels that are controlling things other than dimmers from being affected by the master fader. For example, if you had a moving head instrument, you probably would not want the master fader to change the dmx values con...

Further to this, I'm having trouble triggering SCS Cues from an external RS232 device at the moment, serial cues going out from SCS are working fine. I'm sending scsGo("50") followed by CR to try and trigger Cue 50 but it isn't triggering, does the Cue have to have something set to make it triggera...

I need to set up SCS (which now has much better support for LF apparently) and provide the correct telnet port number (don't know what that is). The default port number for LightFactory is 3100, although that can be changed on the LF end but going with the default is OK. If you wish to send command...

Hi Mike, Suggestion: Allow values to be entered as percent (0-100) as well as raw DMX values (0-255). Maybe add a check box to select % when checked. Also, I have an ENTTEC DMX Pro plus can use LIghtFactory to see the results of sending DMX from SCS, so if you need some testing I'm signing up. Final...

If there are no physical MIDI-through ports, could you simulate them using MIDI-OX? I don't have a lot of experience with it, but it looks like you can "wire" one input port to multiple output ports and even define filters to control what messages go to each port. I think you could run MIDI-OX on th...

You didn't indicate what version of MS Windows you are running, but there should be a dialog similar to this under Control Panel -> Sound:

Set the Sound Scheme to "No Sounds" to eliminate those sounds produced by the operating system.

Bruce

Bruce, what version are you running? I've got 2 laptops with the following combinations of LF & SCS: Old XP laptop: SCS 11.2.4, LF 2.12 (Build 260) Newer W7 32bit laptop: SCS 11.3.8, LF 2.15.1 (Build 195) [a Beta build of LF] I've been able to send Go commands to both versions of SCS from both vers...

With SCS in telnet server role, I connect using the Windows telnet client utility (> telnet 127.0.0.1 3100) and type SCS commands (scsGo("1")) manually. Same non-reactive result in SCS. Is there any reason that would be an invalid test? Is the cue you're trying to trigger actually labelled "1" and ...

As I mentioned in a reply email, please (pretty please) don't do that. As a long-time network software and protocol developer, with many years of experience in the industry, the IETF and IEEE standards organizations, I can say with assurance that the Telnet client and server roles are completely in...

Continuing from my last reply... Some more thoughts: I missed from your original post that you had already set up SCS to listen on port 3100, so I guess that's not your problem. The only other thing is when I set up my test, I did get a message from Windows Firewall asking if I wanted to let SCS acc...