Vista Spyder Remote Access to Catalyst

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

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?

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.

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Originally Posted by nmotta

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.

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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

Code:

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GET /commands/?RunPreset=2 HTTP/1.0

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so basically you can use any tcpip based mechanism to 'telnet' into catalyst on port 8080- and type or run the command

Code:

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GET /commands/?RunPreset=2 HTTP/1.0

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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.

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Originally Posted by Mr_P

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?

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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