BrainModular

Hello,

I use Usine to control interactive sound design and music, as well as video and lights at the same time. All works like a charm but I have a problem concerning the fog machine. It only accepts one DMX channel, that corresponds to the power of fog flow (0 = no fog blown out, 127 = max power). I succeeded to perfectly control the fog machine from Freestyle DMX but not with Usine. I put this very simple patch:
It works a little bit because the fog machine blow one second and stops, but not at its full power (even if I send a 255 value, ie "1" with from the fader). Maybe there is specific config to control fog machines? I didn't find any fog machine preset in the fixtures presets of Usine.

In the fixture config, I tried to set V type (I guess VALUES), as well as D type (I guess DIMMER), but I also saw there is another type of data for setting fixtures (the S) in this help page: https://www.brainmodular.com/manuals/hh ... ture-panel I couldn't tell you what S is standing for. Maybe there is other data types?

I also wonder what is the difference between the string placed above the 0-255 line (G in the next example) and the string the one that is placed after the comma (toto), for example "G // D,0,255,toto"?

Thanks in advance,

creal.

hello,
what is the "status" DMX parameter ? Maybe, the fog machine has to be configured with the "status" parameter ?

for lines description, you have 3 essential descriptions:

D,0,255 means it's a Dimmer and defined as master parameter. A master means that it's affected by the master dimmer of the plot.
V,0,255 means a value as above but not master.

S,0,31,"lamp off"
S,32,63,"lamp on"
S,64,91,"strob on"
is generally for control parameters, which can have different value : in this example DMX value between 0..31 switch off the lamp, 32..63 switch on, etc.

In you case the description should be something like

fog amount
V,0,255 (it's not a master param)
status
S,0,31,smoke off (something like that ?)
S,032,smoke on (something like that ?)

try to get the doc of the fog machine to set the description properly?

senso

Hello,

Thank you very much for your message.

I don't know the "status" of the DMX parameter. What I know is that it progressively increases the flow (or amount) of the fog: 0 = no fog, 40 = a little fog (continuously), 200 = a lot of fog (continously), etc.

Thanks for the details about D, V and S.

Nothing is written in the manual of the fog machine excepted this pretty useless information: "the unit has 1x DMX channel". At least, we know there is no DMX channel for switching the fog on and off. We just have the control of the amount.

I will give another try as soon as I can and will come back to give you another feedback.

Cyril.