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Thread: Vista Spyder Remote Access to Catalyst

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    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

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    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.

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    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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    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.
    Last edited by nmotta; 20-03-2010 at 05:36 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nmotta View Post
    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
    Code:
    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:
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr_P View Post
    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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