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?
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis adrcki@gmail.comwrote:
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
I'm gonna borrow one from a friend today, and I want to set it up to make a demo in the next few days. I was thinking of trying the arduino version, but I won't make it till the mid of this week, I'll use arduino in later versions. What I mean by all that is that even though I'm searching myself, if you could provide info about communication between Pd and the lanbox I would really appreciate it.
Thanks
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:59 AM, dreamer dreamer@puikheid.nl wrote:
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis adrcki@gmail.comwrote:
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
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@puikheid.nl:
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis
adrcki@gmail.comwrote: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
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@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@puikheid.nl:
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki@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
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@gmail.comwrote:
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@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@puikheid.nl:
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki@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
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@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@gmail.comwrote: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@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@puikheid.nl:
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki@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
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Alexandros Drymonitis adrcki@gmail.comwrote:
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],
This is exactly how we connected with udpsend as well (so for udp you need to enable this in the firmware, and I have no idea how to :) ).
Then, the other messages look like: [192 183 0 0 202 254 0 10 0 1 255 255 255 255( And I have no idea anymore what this actually means :) Only that the last 4 values are for the dimmer-pack we used.
The manual should have more info on how the protocol works.
Eventually I'm using the Max examples that come along with the LCedit+ software, and communicate between Max and Pd with [udpreceive] (I'm using serial communication with the lanbox). Anyway this is for an urgent deadline, I'll probably use and arduino version later on.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:44 AM, dreamer dreamer@puikheid.nl wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Alexandros Drymonitis adrcki@gmail.comwrote:
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],
This is exactly how we connected with udpsend as well (so for udp you need to enable this in the firmware, and I have no idea how to :) ).
Then, the other messages look like: [192 183 0 0 202 254 0 10 0 1 255 255 255 255( And I have no idea anymore what this actually means :) Only that the last 4 values are for the dimmer-pack we used.
The manual should have more info on how the protocol works.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis adrcki@gmail.comwrote:
Eventually I'm using the Max examples that come along with the LCedit+ software, and communicate between Max and Pd with [udpreceive] (I'm using serial communication with the lanbox). Anyway this is for an urgent deadline, I'll probably use and arduino version later on.
Doesn't the Max/Msp example show you how the messages work? Just use the same messaging.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:44 AM, dreamer dreamer@puikheid.nl wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Alexandros Drymonitis <adrcki@gmail.com
wrote:
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],
This is exactly how we connected with udpsend as well (so for udp you need to enable this in the firmware, and I have no idea how to :) ).
Then, the other messages look like: [192 183 0 0 202 254 0 10 0 1 255 255 255 255( And I have no idea anymore what this actually means :) Only that the last 4 values are for the dimmer-pack we used.
The manual should have more info on how the protocol works.
Well, they've built a couple of externals specifically for communication between Max and the Lanbox, and honestly, at the point I can't bother, so I'll take the easy route...
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:15 PM, dreamer dreamer@puikheid.nl wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Alexandros Drymonitis adrcki@gmail.comwrote:
Eventually I'm using the Max examples that come along with the LCedit+ software, and communicate between Max and Pd with [udpreceive] (I'm using serial communication with the lanbox). Anyway this is for an urgent deadline, I'll probably use and arduino version later on.
Doesn't the Max/Msp example show you how the messages work? Just use the same messaging.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:44 AM, dreamer dreamer@puikheid.nl wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Alexandros Drymonitis < adrcki@gmail.com> wrote:
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],
This is exactly how we connected with udpsend as well (so for udp you need to enable this in the firmware, and I have no idea how to :) ).
Then, the other messages look like: [192 183 0 0 202 254 0 10 0 1 255 255 255 255( And I have no idea anymore what this actually means :) Only that the last 4 values are for the dimmer-pack we used.
The manual should have more info on how the protocol works.