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Hardware => Lynx EtherDongle => Lynx Conductor => Topic started by: RJ on August 26, 2012,
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Since not much has been put out about it I decided to post this rough draft of the additional document for the conductor that shows how to use the triggers built into it.
Also a link for those that would like to get a head start on learning the basic tutorial of the the conductors use.
https://vimeo.com/48223100
RJ
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I thought you mentioned putting in a "time between songs" feature at the Academy. Is that in the future? Or do we just create a short animation sequence with no lights and schedule it between songs? I like 4-5 seconds between songs so they don't just run together like some DJ mix :) Can't wait for the beta testers to give final approval!
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I love the binary usage... I knew I wasn't the only one to use that! I am curious... What is the voltage for the triggers? What is the maximum distance the trigger can be from the conductor, assuming running the trigger line with cat5?
- Rimist (via Tapatalk)
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Ideal format. Manual or auto. Looks very simple. Low watt usage. Small.
Great RJ. Hopefully comes out soon. But not expecting to.
Thanks RJ for all your hard work and others that are helping out.
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Hi RJ,
Very nice video
You and the beta guys did a lot of work getting to work that smoothly. Congrats
Rick R.
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+1 - Can't wait for it's release!!
Thanks RJ and Company :)
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+1 - Can't wait for it's release!!
Thanks RJ and Company :)
+1.1 8) Can't wait for it's release!!
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I thought you mentioned putting in a "time between songs" feature at the Academy. Is that in the future? Or do we just create a short animation sequence with no lights and schedule it between songs? I like 4-5 seconds between songs so they don't just run together like some DJ mix :) Can't wait for the beta testers to give final approval!
currently between songs in a show is 4 seconds. it is not adjustable at this time. We did add the delay I was talking about between shows on scheduled to repeat shows. If later it is found to be needed we can add an adjustable delay but we had to get the features locked in to allow us to finsish the beta.
RJ
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I love the binary usage... I knew I wasn't the only one to use that! I am curious... What is the voltage for the triggers? What is the maximum distance the trigger can be from the conductor, assuming running the trigger line with cat5?
- Rimist (via Tapatalk)
Since you are grounding out a weak pull up resistor. It should be of little effect. You should be able to run a good ways.
RJ
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4 seconds is good enough for me.
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Really premature question, but did I hear correctly that the Conductor uses a Compact Flash (CF) memory card? Are there are speed or size limits needed? My old Canon camera still uses those, and this might be a good reason to upgrade that and use the older one for the conductor.
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Really premature question, but did I hear correctly that the Conductor uses a Compact Flash (CF) memory card? Are there are speed or size limits needed? My old Canon camera still uses those, and this might be a good reason to upgrade that and use the older one for the conductor.
The coop will include the CF card according to RJ.
No doubt he intends CF speed, sizes, and manufacturer options to be reduced as problems to debug.
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I have a question about the Trigger attachment. The thread doesn't really go into how the hardware works. Is it 1 trigger board will activate 1 sequence, or will there be multiple buttons on each board? Hard to plan using it and getting in on the coop without knowing what its capabilities are.
Thanks
Jeff
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Greetings,,,
The board is the connections for the wires that you run to your switches. You can add from 1 to 15 switches as you wish to the Trigger board.
keith
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The trigger pcb accepts 15 inputs where you close a switch to between the grounds terminals and the input of the one you want to trigger. Then the unit will play the seqence and music / music only / or seqence only that is setup in the show name 12.sho for the the #12 trigger. ect.
So one pcb give you 15 triggers. It hooks back to the conductor with 5 wires. 1 ground and four inputs which are binary coded.
You can have 4 triggers directly to the conductor with out the trigger pcb.
I have attached the trigger document. Sorry thought I had posted it already earlier.
RJ
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are the triggers necessary? can you run the conductor without the triggers? what is the purpose of the slave unit? thanks in advance
duane
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Greetings,,,
The Trigger unit adds more interaction capability, but it is not needed at all for the Conductor to start up and run preprogrammed sequences.
The slave unit can be added to a second Etherdongle to allow multiple units to work together.
Keith
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Try this duane,
http://vimeo.com/27642079
animal
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For us non tech. people.
Would a example would be light beam that is broken to trigger a show.
Or a motion sensor on the front yard that would be triggered.
Thanks
Mort
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For us non tech. people.
Would a example would be light beam that is broken to trigger a show.
Or a motion sensor on the front yard that would be triggered.
Thanks
Mort
Yes
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Greetings,,,
A simple switch closure. Anything that can connect two wires together. In other words, an on/off switch is all you need, or something fancier that does the same thing.
Keith
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So I try hard to stay focused on Christmas and not get caught up with a Halloween show and here is this new shiny fandangled trigger that just screams (pun intended) Halloween! ;D Ok, I swear I am only gonna do something small that will help me learn the conductor for this big show... Now to research a motion detector switch...
So, how is the trigger connected to the conductor?
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Run 5 wires from the bottom of the PCB labeled Conductor Trigger Inputs 1, 2, 3, 4, and GND to the five pads on the Conductor marked trig #1,#2,#3,#4 and the GND.
Denny
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the trigger pcb has 15 contacts, and Ground. you run two wires to your "trigger" switch, or button. the trigger # + ground for each trigger you want. so, if you want a motion sensor somewhere, and you want it on #6, you run a wires from #6 and ground to that switch. if you want a set of buttons somewhere (say 10) you run the wires from the #'s you want to use, and ground to that location. that's it for the hardware.
then on the conductor, you'll have your shows set up. like 1.sho, or 2.sho for whatever trigger events.
Examples that could be helpful,
the trigger sequence can be just an mp3 file like a scream , of other effect (for halloween)
of the trigger can be a full song animated (so you can make a jukebox of the songs in your show for christmas that people can push)