Remote Go on a 520

[Rowan]

I've had a quick search of the board, but can't find anything on this. If it does exist then please can someone add the link.

 

I'm looking for a simple remote go button for a 500 series console. does anyone know of such a thing.

 

I think it would be fairly easy to make one, my idea is to connect a switch across one of the remote submaster inputs on the back of the desk, and then programme a macro onto that sub that makes the desk 'GO' when the sub is activated. Is this the correct way to go about it, or is there a simpler method that people know of? I'd quite like to keep the cost down so probably steering clear of the MIDI route.

[Jon T]

You can use their riggers remote as a remote go .. info available from www.strandlight.com... or if budget doesnt stretch you could run a long external keyboard cable to a keyboard and use the letter 'G' on it !

[b1nuzz]

Strand Designers remote will do it.

About £150

[gareth]

Now that everyone has totally ignored your comment about keeping the cost down and chipped in with suggestions for riggers remotes, and USB dongles and laptop combinations, I'll mention that your idea of using the remote inputs and creating a macro to "GO X1" is definitely the cheapest way to do it and should work just fine.

[JMC]

And I can confirm it does.. Used that method before. Providing you have ComPro available, this will work fine.

[Rowan]

Cheers Gareth and JMC

 

Thought it should work, as I don't have a desk in front of me at home I can't really check!

 

The problem with the previous suggestion of a keyboard lead is that in the hasty moments of the show when I've got lots of sound and lx cues together, I don't want to have to be aiming for one key amidst thirty!!

 

Also, after we've established the fact that I cannot justify the expense of another riggers remote. I find that if I remove them from the side of the stage and put them in the control box, resident electricians get rather irate about it when they come to do a rig check from the stage!

[Pete]

The problem with the previous suggestion of a keyboard lead is that in the hasty moments of the show when I've got lots of sound and lx cues together, I don't want to have to be aiming for one key amidst thirty!!

 

Take the rest off?

[Dj Dunc]

or .even better, get a usb-->ps2 converter, so that there was a usb keyboard, but instead use one of those laptop keypads with a lot less buttons, then the enter button is usually at the bottom right.

 

this would work?

 

dunc

[Rowan]

still think a button and a bit of wire will be cheaper and easier

 

also, I don't fancy having to re-map the keys on all of the desks so that enter is the go button

[gareth]

still think a button and a bit of wire will be cheaper and easier

You're absolutely right. I have no idea why most of the other contributors to this thread seem so hell-bent on making your life unnecessarily difficult and expensive.

[JMC]

technology for technology's sake gareth

[Tomo]

A similar thing can be done with most ETC desks - connect a few push-to-make buttons across the Remote Macro input pins, program a few macros to do the 'something', et voila!

 

Could probably do enough for a low-tech riggers I suppose..

[Renny]

Strand Designers remote will do it.

About £150

 

 

£150?

 

You don't buy much stuff off strand do you?

[b1nuzz]

well I think I paid about £80 for it in the end cos it got damaged in the post, but no, correct, it was the first ever thing I bought. Apart from a 520i.

[Rowan]

well I think I paid about £80 for it in the end cos it got damaged in the post, but no, correct, it was the first ever thing I bought. Apart from a 520i.

 

I guess it's against the rules of the forum, but where did you buy it from? if they're going for £150 I might buy one!!! I might even have a chat with the postman if it'll get me an extra discount