QLC+ synced to SCS

[lttton]

Hi there,

does anyone have tried to sync QLC+ (Q Light Controller http://www.qlcplus.org/) to SCS on different machines?
There are lots of possibilities (Midi, OSC, Telnet), but which one is the easiest to implement?

Every thought is appreciated.

Uwe

[tocsin]

hi, maybe midi over ethernet is the easiest way. you can try this with rtpMidi http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/rtpmidi.html. other lighting software works with midi triggers, maybe qlc+ aswell.

[Julio B.]

The easiest to emplement, for me, is midi. RtpMIDI work fine.

[Onstage Theatre]

Yes. We are a small Community Theater and have been using SCS to control a QLC+ based Lighting Desk for 3 years.

We program all the lighting zones in QLC+ and define each button/slider with an OSC tag.

In SCS, we do an OSC Network Send with the tag that we defined in QLC+.

[BJB]

Hello,
Would it be too much trouble to expand on this a little? Perhaps some sample setup files from both QLC+ & SCS. OSC is a bit of a mystery to me.
I have been fiddling around trying to get QLC+ to respond to MIDI triggers from SCS with limited success - can't get it work reliably and consistently. I'm trying to make it work with both packages running on the same PC with rtpmidi, loopmidi, loopbe1 etc.
Haven't looked at this for a while, but just came across this post. Can't remember if I have tried having the packages running on separate PC's.
Brendan

[BJB]

No problems - I have finally got it!
Fairly simple mistake on my part as it turns out. I was just sending a "Note On" command to trigger the next cue. Following up with the same "Note On" to trigger the following cue in the list did nothing. All I needed to do was follow each "Note On" with an immediate "Note Off" to mimic what happens when you press and release a button on any hardware MIDI device.
Seems to be working consistently as I would like now.
Brendan

[Tony Brady]

I have successfully linked SCS MIDI "Note On" messages to QLC+ to trigger lighting scenes, it works very well.
I used RTPMIDI - in one set up I have QLC+ on one laptop and SCS running in a separate laptop but I have also run both programs on the same laptop using Windows split screen to monitor activity.

[WJSOC]

Yes. We are a small Community Theater and have been using SCS to control a QLC+ based Lighting Desk for 3 years.

We program all the lighting zones in QLC+ and define each button/slider with an OSC tag.

In SCS, we do an OSC Network Send with the tag that we defined in QLC+.

I have been trying to Fire Q's in QLC+ from SCS on two laptops using OSC without success. I am receiving the packets in QLC+ ok, but they do not perform the command I have linked to the button on the Virtual Console. I would like to know the exact OSC message you send from SCS and how you have set up your button in the Virtual Console to receive the message? Any help would be grateful.