Hi all, there must be a setting somewhere that I have wrong. I have the following setup, minus the mixing console and the bottom two fixtures (for now.)
I can control my fixtures just fine using the blizzard At Full app. (going though a blizzard SoC-It and wicicle xmit and receive units). So I know the iPad is sending DMX info to the fixtures through the entire hardware chain.
However, when I switch to photon 2, I can’t get the fixtures to do anything at all. Even when I connect directly from the SoC-It to the fixtures, and bypass the wicilcle xmit/receive link, it seems like no DMX data is being transmitted.
Both apps are set up to use sACN.
I did have photon working yesterday, without the Wicicle xmit/recieve link, but don’t think that additional wireless link is the issue anyway, though, since the fixtures can be controlled fine using blizzard’s At Full app. I’m not sure what, if anything, changed.
I’ve restarted the photon app a number of times. Any thoughts on where the disconnect could be?
Note that I do have some of the buttons in the live panel to trigger via MIDI CC inputs, and I’m using MIDI at the moment. But only a couple of the buttons have these, and the ones without MIDI triggers assigned also don’t work, so I don’t think that’s the issue.
But that does bring up the question, if I do have a MIDI trigger assigned to a button, can I also trigger it by touching in the live panel?
Well, turns out that the SoC-It network somehow got reset from sACN. The At Full app works works with either Art Net or sACN .(not sure if it maybe transmits both at the same time?)
Set it back to sACN and all’s well in photon land.
Yes buttons can be triggered by MIDI and by touch. So if a Button it turned on by MIDI and photon2 misses the turn off you can manually turn it off. I have some backing tracks that use MIDI to control my lights and on those that don’t have a MIDI track I do it all manually. Photon2 is so flexible.
I imagine I’m not going to do much manual triggering during shows, but it’s nice to know it’s there! The whole point of this exercise for me was to up get sync up our lights to the tracks, since we don’t often have budget for even a sound engineer, much less someone to run lights.
