Good Afternoon,
a while back I did a small project with a few WS2812 led strips, the OctoWS2811 board and a IR-Remote.
All the animations were "rendered" on the Teensy and I could control the animation a bit by changing some variables over the IR-Remote. (like speed and color change rate)
Now for another project I would like to use an inexpensive light controller like the Cameo Control 6 instead of the IR-Remote to control the animations.
In my understanding these controllers are just a bunch of potentiometers which signals are bundled and sent out thorugh the DMX cable/protocol.
All I like to do is to read out the value of each of the six potentiometers and represent them in a variable inside my sketch.
I googled a few hours and I found plenty of information on DMX receivers but I could not find an easy solution.
I read here on the forum that Ward has done a pretty good DMX receiver library on the following thread:
https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/1966...re-functionality?p=24993&viewfull=1#post24993
When I have a look at the code it seems that the Arduino would receive the data over the serial interface.
My questions now:
- Is there an adapter board for a teensy 3.6 where I can plug in the DMX cable and get the serial output onto my teensy?
- Will this library somehow interfere with the OctoWS2811 library? (interrupts etc.) The timing on the WS2812 strips seems to be tight….
- Is there an easier way to get access to the potentiometer values on the DMX controller?
o I already thought of take the controller apart and hard wire the potentiometers directly to the teensy, but that would be a mess.
- Do I miss something here? Normally I am able to google the things up for myself but that DMX stuff just seems like not wanting to go into my head ):
Thanks a lot and kind regards
a while back I did a small project with a few WS2812 led strips, the OctoWS2811 board and a IR-Remote.
All the animations were "rendered" on the Teensy and I could control the animation a bit by changing some variables over the IR-Remote. (like speed and color change rate)
Now for another project I would like to use an inexpensive light controller like the Cameo Control 6 instead of the IR-Remote to control the animations.
In my understanding these controllers are just a bunch of potentiometers which signals are bundled and sent out thorugh the DMX cable/protocol.
All I like to do is to read out the value of each of the six potentiometers and represent them in a variable inside my sketch.
I googled a few hours and I found plenty of information on DMX receivers but I could not find an easy solution.
I read here on the forum that Ward has done a pretty good DMX receiver library on the following thread:
https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/1966...re-functionality?p=24993&viewfull=1#post24993
When I have a look at the code it seems that the Arduino would receive the data over the serial interface.
My questions now:
- Is there an adapter board for a teensy 3.6 where I can plug in the DMX cable and get the serial output onto my teensy?
- Will this library somehow interfere with the OctoWS2811 library? (interrupts etc.) The timing on the WS2812 strips seems to be tight….
- Is there an easier way to get access to the potentiometer values on the DMX controller?
o I already thought of take the controller apart and hard wire the potentiometers directly to the teensy, but that would be a mess.
- Do I miss something here? Normally I am able to google the things up for myself but that DMX stuff just seems like not wanting to go into my head ):
Thanks a lot and kind regards