<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Have you looked at Luminaire 3? I have not used the version 3, but had success with an older version.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div>Brian</div></div><div><br>On May 25, 2017, at 23:16, Stephen Braun via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hello Everyone,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks for all of the great advice over the years.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I've been trying to use (an un-named) pc based DMX controller for a few years now, just because I want to be able to use an iPad/iPhone based wireless, remote control app. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">There are many work days at my venue, where I must focus my conventional stage lights from a variety of hanging positions that are difficult for me to get to. I have to assemble a scaffold daily, in my auditorium, just to focus my F.O.H wash. I would like to have a wireless, iPad app solution for a focus remote that works consistently.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The system that I have chosen to work with so far, has always been unreliable, and I am ready to entertain some suggestions on what to use instead.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Just to be clear, I am not necessarily looking for suggestions for a replacement pc based 'show-controller'. I already have a reliable, hardwired DMX controller. I am only looking for a pc-based controller that will provide a reliable, wireless, remote app via an iPad/iPhone.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I have:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> - a pc laptop, running Windows 7, dedicated to only the stage lighting. No other apps, except a web browser to download any updates. I do have access to other brands of pc's and versions of OS.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> - this laptop is hardwired to my own, private, wireless network, set up in my venue, so I'm not competing for bandwidth or dealing with firewalls, or any other users. Just the laptop, running the DMX control software.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> - two ENTTEC USB DMX Pro devices available, for my laptop to send DMX to my ETC dimmer racks. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> - only 250 DMX addresses, for 198 conventional dimmers, and 2 Rosco iCues, 3 GAM gobo rotators, 15 Wybron For-runners. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> - an iPad 2, an iPad Air, and an iPhone 6, to run the remote-control app.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I do have a few hundred dollars to put towards this, so I can purchase new software, and USB/DMX converters if necessary.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks again for any input.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Cheers,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">sfb</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Stephen F Braun<br></span></div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:sbraun1@twcny.rr.com" target="_blank">sbraun1@twcny.rr.com</a></span><br></div></div></div>
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