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Seantava
05-02-2009, 10:35 AM
Hello All,
we are building a setup where catalyst will be the background machine for a vista spyder system.
To make the handling of the system as easy as possible i´m trying to add Remote Access to the Catalyst from the Vista Spyder Timeline.
There is an Option in the Spyder to send Network Commands. But no way to send http://.. command lines like in a webbrowser.
I´ve setup the Spyder to coomunicate to the ip adress and the port number of the catalyst and tried to enter several versions of the ?FindPlayShowCue=xx command of the catalyst webbrowser. But all Versions did not work.
Anyway, the Webbrowser on the Vista System is able to execute cues in the Catalyst!
I know this might be a hard question but maybe someone can help??
Greetings from Germany
Holger
nmotta
20-03-2010, 09:12 AM
I'm having the same problem, but i'm trying to learn how to control the catalyst thru the SPYDER by RS 232.
Help requested. PLEASE!!!!!!
Thank you all.
Not aware that you can control catalyst directly with vista via RS232...
It is possible to send TCP/IP commands to catalyst from external sources as well as web commands
There is also facility to trigger presets via dmx and midi.
what are you trying to achieve?
nmotta
20-03-2010, 04:06 PM
I'm trying to trigger Catalyst presets from the Vista Spyder X20.
The Spyder sends a UDP or TCP string in ASCII format to a user specified
port at a user specified IP address.
samsc
26-03-2010, 11:43 AM
I'm trying to trigger Catalyst presets from the Vista Spyder X20.
The Spyder sends a UDP or TCP string in ASCII format to a user specified
port at a user specified IP address.
you can send a http web command?
to port 8080
or a midi note equivalent over tcpip
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there are multiple different ways to trigger presets - the easiest is to use an http command- ( which is tcp html GET command - underneath )
goto the web server builtin-
on local machine- the presets page is-
http://localhost:8080/catws/presets.html
on remote machine use ip address
to trigger preset use this:
http://localhost:8080/commands/?RunPreset=1
GO
if you look at the address triggered from the "Go" button they are there-
or telnet to localhost:8080
type
GET /commands/?RunPreset=2 HTTP/1.0
samsc
26-03-2010, 11:47 AM
so basically you can use any tcpip based mechanism to 'telnet' into catalyst on port 8080- and type or run the command
GET /commands/?RunPreset=2 HTTP/1.0
the 'GET' simulates the http GET command- the 'HTTP/1.0' is the end of line for an http request.
example telnet capture shown here-
should be the exact same command format from spyder - http requests are just a special format of generic network commands.
samsc
26-03-2010, 11:51 AM
Not aware that you can control catalyst directly with vista via RS232...
It is possible to send TCP/IP commands to catalyst from external sources as well as web commands
There is also facility to trigger presets via dmx and midi.
what are you trying to achieve?
yes - you can- because catalyst makes no distinction between the physical port type - ( i dont care whether the interface is midi rs232 or whatever you want ) in any of the midi or serial input triggering-
So you can send the equivalent of a midi command- over rs232
either notes or midi show control-
to run a preset or a cue - over rs232-
you just set the input port in the midi triggering device to the rs232 port-
for the formats of midi or midi show control messages - you need to look at web docs-
any midi note can trigger a preset
in hexadecimal - base 16-
the numerical values for note on 1 are
0x90 0x01 0x80 ( i think ... )
decimal 144 , 1, 128
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