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ETCNet1 protocol

Is the specs for the ETCNet protocol freely available?  My school has an Expression 3 based system and I've been looking in to building a wireless interface I can run on my laptop to remotely control the E3 board.  I read this story, http://www.etcconnect.com/installations.education.asp?ID=20018, and I want to get something like that, but the school cant afford (nor would they buy if they could) the Emphasis Control System.

If I can engineer an interface for ETCNet, I should be able to build my own app in either C# or Perl.

 Any thoughts?
 

  • The ETCNet (AKA ETCNet1) and ETCNet2 protocols are proprietary, so I don't think you'll be able to do anything with the network port.

    A couple of other options for wireless control though :

    http://www.etcconnect.com/product.overview.asp?ID=20009 is ETCs wireless remote that works with Express and Expression. It gives you simple remote control, and is fairly affordable.

     If you want to build something yourself, you could also look at using the remote macro functions on the console. There is a D connector on the back that gives access to macros (which could be programmed to give you whichever functions you need remotely).

     Hope that helps,

     

    Tom 



     

  • in reply to tomsteer
    I have thought about doing this as well.

    The solution I came up with would take two computers, however (or a computer and, say, a Palm pilot).  All the macros can be triggered through MIDI commands.  So, if you program each button on the face panel of the console to a MIDI command and then write client/server software to remotely send the MIDI commands, you can do anything remotely that you can do on the facepanel except move sliders.  I never got beyond a very simple proof of concept program, however what I got done *did* work.

    The remote macro DB connector only gives you access to 4 (maybe 8) macros.  With MIDI, you get all of them.

    The Express manual has a description of the MIDI system.
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