wall mounted DMX control

[AHYoung]

any ideas on a wall mounted DMX control. in an ideal world it would feature 12 buttons in a 4/3 grid as its to control 4 banks of lights which can be in any one of 3 states. ie button 1, 2, and 3 would set bank a into state 1 , 2 or 3. the buttons need local status feedback and the states are exclusive. that said it could be 4 seperate 3 button controls or 2 6 ways or nearest offer.

 

it also needs to "Just work" without anything that the user can do to break the system like a blackout button. I can easily programme a touchpanel to do this, but it seems daft to spend thousands on whats a simple DMX programmable DMX controller and bank of buttons and it occurs to me that something ideal may allready exist....

 

any thoughts appreciated

 

Alastair

[KevinE]

This will do, available from the usual sources.

 

Elation

 

or this

 

Trancension

[MrBoomal]

Helvar will be able to give you exactly what you describe. not the cheapest though.

[dbuckley]

I believe the OP described the Artistic Licence Light Switch, even down to the button layout :)

[Chiefy]

Hi

Here are two options;

 

Pulsar

 

or

Swisson

 

Hope this is of use?

 

Cheers

 

Rob

[jacet]

I believe the OP described the Artistic Licence Light Switch, even down to the button layout :)

+1 for the light switch

[back_ache]

The budget option would be to make an eight button box and use one of these 70 quid circuit boards

 

http://proto-pic.co.uk/products/512-Channe...ransmitter.html

[AHYoung]

Thanks for all the above, My only worry is that most of the above execute one cue at a time, but what I need is to have any one of 3 states in 4 independant sets of fixtures, for an analogy think 4 sets of traffic lights all independantly controlled from the same controller. it may well be that what I want is not actually possible... any thinking?

 

 

cheers

[jonhole]

Not a great solution, but could you use the DMX to remote trigger submasters on a lighting desk?

[Jivemaster]

http://www.terralec.co.uk/dmx_lighting_con...er/21270_p.html

 

is another nnear but not quite.

[KevinE]

You are specifying a system that is rapidly sounding like alot of money!

[niclights]

I'm wondering if the solution to this might be four separate scene based switchers each on a different universe?

If you went with Neil's bare board suggestion above you could make a custom solution with four boards each linked to three switches.

 

Alternatively Anytronics do the Anyscene units which list around £200.

[AHYoung]

I'm wondering if the solution to this might be four separate scene based switchers each on a different universe?

If you went with Neil's bare board suggestion above you could make a custom solution with four boards each linked to three switches.

 

Alternatively Anytronics do the Anyscene units which list around £200.

 

 

having looked at all the options, im pretty much looking at getting button boxes made with simple logic to latch only one of three buttons and provide the feedback required, these can then trigger something based around the bare board. To trigger 4 units you mount 4 together... there are a whole load of things that nearly do it, but not quite,

 

 

thanks for the pointers its appreciated

 

 

cheers

 

Alastair

[jmaudio]

My girlfriend has a system set up in her home for the domestic lighting... It comprised of a load of networked wall plates in every room with, with 5 buttons on each. These can either be programed as different "states". So for example Button 1 is "All lights in the room @ 100%. Button 2 is "All lights in the room @ 75%". Button 5 is "All lights @ 0%" Or. they can control different sets of lights, for example" Button 1 "Kitchen ceiling lights @100%" Button two "Light under cooker @100%"

 

The company who makes the kit is called iLight Link

 

They make dimmers that understand the information the wallbox "brain" chuck out. But they also have an interface that will convert the data from the wall boxes into DMX... Obviously the programming goes on in the interface that lies between the wallplates and the dimmers.

 

I'm sure the company can make custom wall plates in the setup you require, and could advise you on the programming needed in the interface.

 

Its not cheap stuff though.

 

HTH

 

Jamie.