Working on a OSC/QLab controlled cue light with a Rasberry Pi Zero W. 3d printing a case for it now.
Posted Mar 31, 2020, 10:09 PM UTC
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Raspberry Pi might be a touch overkill for this. I've been working on a system utilizing the esp8266 that could be adapted to osc control.
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I do plan on making a version that utilizes an esp32 or other wifi connected mcu instead, but the raspberry pi is great for networked prototypes. I'm able to write code directly on the pi and run a bunch of other standard software that I'd be forced to write myself if I were to use an mcu.
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Can you post a Tutorial? How did you start this, is it working good for you?
I'll be posting progress updates and eventually a guide/plans alongside the code on my site at https://shwc.io. It's just a raspberry pi hooked up to a set of traffic lights that I found on amazon using some jumper wires. I wrote some code using Go to listen for OSC messages and set the corresponding GPIO pin to high/low. It's under 100 lines of code right now. I'll be adding buttons to get a response from the op as well as an OLED display for info. I might add the ability to control a strip of LEDs or something in addition to the built in ones.
There will also be streamdeck/companion support. I envision this being a fairly affordable system. All the cuelights on the market cost several hundred and I could get this made for $50-100, so a whole system with a streamdeck and a few channels should be under $1k instead of $3-5k for comparable systems.