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Seantava
05-02-2009, 11:35 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, 10:12 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.

Mr_P
20-03-2010, 01:05 PM
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, 05:06 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, 12:43 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.

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, 12:47 PM
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, 12:51 PM
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