Wall-Mount DMX Control

[rossmck]

Not the cheapest option but the SceneStation (also sold by Zero88 under another name that escapes me) might be worth a look ... Also Artistic License do a number of products that might be suitable as already mentioned above

[musht]

Cueserver, distributed by TMB

 

http://www.interactive-online.com/products/cueserver/models

[Richard CSL]

Easiest on the planet to program, designed exactly for what you are asking.

http://www.daslight.com/index.php

However not particularily cheap, for cheapness the Smart Director DMX recorder is what I have used many times in the past

 

http://www.thomann.de/gb/botex_sd10.htm

 

only 64 euros.

[henny]

the dashlight does look good but not enough channels , it needs to be a full universe, the wall wash takes aprox 300 ch on it's owne

[TomHoward]

Those Daslight stand-alone boxes have open contact inputs, so you could record scenes for each area on three separate boxes, and have one of these grid plates loaded up with these press switches controlling them - you'd need the 512ch version for your LED wall, and then use the 128ch versions for other areas where you can get away with it - your panel has up to 24 swiches total (they do a grid panel with up that many switches on it) with three separate Daslight boxes behind. You could link some switches together to give you presets that effect all three boxes, or some wired to single boxes.

 

Expensive way to do it (750 euros for the Daslight boxes, plus another £100ish for the switches, and then you'd still need a DMX merger after the three of them) and for the price difference I'd go with the Artistic Licence switch (£295) and just accept that you'll have 24 full DMX 512 scenes, and you'll have to program full scenes with different areas - you'd just have to limit the independent control of areas to repeating some parameters in certain scenes on the box.

 

Whatever you install in my (albeit limited) experience you're always better going with something that looks like a lightswitch (like the Artistic Licence unit), or something with open contact inputs (like the Daslight boxes) behind an MK Grid press switch (as shown above). You can get the panel engraved up nicely to give all the details for the switches and it's a lot simpler to the inexperienced bar staff expected to use it than the touch-screen variant.

 

Edit: Just to note that those MK grid bits I linked to aren't all you'll need to put that together, you need the backplates for the switches as well.

[henny]

Im leaning towards a lanbox with a custom panel of buttons and pots , then I can do it all in one box and I also get art net in/out

[Don Allen]

I have just done some work using an AC 612 12 Scene DMX Playback unit. At first it did not seem much use but after I donwloaded the software I could access more channels. It is an ELC unit.

[rossmck]

I have just done some work using an AC 612 12 Scene DMX Playback unit. At first it did not seem much use but after I donwloaded the software I could access more channels. It is an ELC unit.

 

I have the older version of this currently controlling some lights in my house (don't ask) until I get around to installing some sort of proper lighting control - the older ones are only 12 channel (no option to plug it in for software to do more than that - its just what you can program using the unit itself) but they do act as an LTP merger as well which could be quite handy in some circumstances