Trigger Response

[jem5136]

I was thinking about my Halloween Haunted House today, and I has an idea that guests could walk through a sensor and a few channels would fade on, and then when they exit the room, they would pass through another sensor and the lights would fade off. I was wondering how I could do this using Vixen and either Renard controllers or Lynx controllers.


Any thoughts?


Thanks,
Jesse

[crazybob]

I don't know about vixen, but I did this exact thing for my haunted house using Brookshire Software's VSA program. I got it bundled with my Skulltronix, but I believe it's around $50 to buy on it's own. I made my routine in VSA and hooked it up to a DMX dimmer pack. I then hacked a motion sensor to turn on a relay, which completed a circuit that was wired into the "enter" key of an old keyboard to start the routine. If you don't mind spending a bit more, you can buy a I/O board to give you multiple inputs or even buy a keyboard emulator to do what you want.
That's my way... There are about 15 different ways to do it though. Vixen may work just fine if someone else knows how.

[kiwichristmas]

There are some trigger plugins around for vixen, using usb, gameport or network to setup trigger events.
but most of them set off a seq that runs though to the end of the seq, i.e. a set amount of time.

It has been a while since I last looked into this, and there has been a few version changes from KC, so
anything is possible if you ask for it 

cheers
Chris