Hi Hivemind. I have an interesting predicament here. I'm the technical facilities manager of a small historic theatre in Wisconsin and am working on a Paradigm Processor running 5.1.0.1431 with Light Designer version 5.1.1.1455. I have an Epson projector (EB-PU1007B) that I would like to turn on and off remotely, not using the remote, from my PST-7 (and mobile button station) and to recall certain stored lens memories and make other lens adjustment controls from the networked serial protocol. There's a few issues present with this endeavor. First, it's the fact that the projector's networked serial interface communicates via TCP not UDP, although it has a web API that involves sending HTTP messages to and from the projector. Second, the character they delimit their messages with is a colon not a CR or LF or both, although it looks like it could use a LF character, but it's not indicated very well. As far as I can tell, there's no way to set your own custom end of message character, and there's the obvious difference in communication protocols. I could do a direct serial connection, but it's a long way to between each, and the projector doesn't take ACN. It does have an Art-Net interface, but as far as I can tell Paradigm doesn't do Art-Net. Do any of you have any ideas of how I could get these to talk to each other? The reason why I need my PSAP to listen to the projector is because I want to be able to set an indicator on my buttons that is obtained by the projectors get power status command.
Now there's the obvious "Just get an Extron or Crestron control panel." But I don't have the budget for that right now and I have the Paradigm Touch Screen that I have in my booth. I like pushing technology to its limits, but I feel like this is something that could happen. I don't know if it would be achievable via custom Lua scripts, or if there's anything that I'm missing in my current version of LD, but I'd be happy to get any suggestions as to what others might have done. I know Paradigm is an architectural lighting controller and not an AV controller, but to be frank, I don't see any reason why it couldn't at least support basic or rudimentary communication with other AV equipment. Additionally, this isn't necessarily for me, as I can connect to it using the remote web interface, but this would be for the not technologically experienced people that use the space and that I work with. Thank you and I look forward to seeing what you all have to say!
