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===== Eye candy ===== | ===== Eye candy ===== | ||
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+ | ==== Off-the-shelf ==== | ||
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+ | There are lots of weird cheap DMX lighting fixtures available from ebay/ | ||
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+ | * **[[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== DIY ==== | ||
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+ | We're hackers, we've made pretty lights before, we can make pretty lights again! | ||
===== Control ===== | ===== Control ===== | ||
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+ | ==== Hardware ==== | ||
DMX is the standard lighting control protocol. Art-net and sACN are two protocols for pushing DMX over a network. Allie has some designs for cheap sACN to DMX nodes based around the ESP8266, which have proven to be pretty reliable so far. | DMX is the standard lighting control protocol. Art-net and sACN are two protocols for pushing DMX over a network. Allie has some designs for cheap sACN to DMX nodes based around the ESP8266, which have proven to be pretty reliable so far. | ||
- | Control software | + | ==== Software (sACN Router/ |
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+ | The core of the new lighting | ||
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+ | * Generating control data based on cues (presets/scenes) fired over MQTT (" | ||
+ | * Receiving sACN raw control (" | ||
+ | * Intelligently(-ish) mixing/fading between office mode data and party mode data, either based on MQTT commands or priority/ | ||
+ | * Mapping the input channel space to the output channel space (channel 73-82 of control universe 3 might map to channels 1-10 of output universe 1 of unicast sACN device 10.200.10.3, for instance) | ||
+ | * Sending sACN to the lab's lighting fixtures | ||
+ | * Exposing some form of interface/ | ||
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+ | This is not an insignificant amount of complexity - I would assume it would end up including some sort of DSL for creating complex architectural lighting cues, as well as maybe some form of web interface/ |
g1_lighting.txt · Last modified: 2024-02-14 08:20 by simon