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Contour Shuttle as EOS Encoders

Another classic bit of #techbodgery, a simple encoder option for ETCnomad (or an Element!) is the Contour Shuttle Xpress. This is a decent quality encoder that's priced about £50 (2024) aimed mainly at video editors but it works as a great encoder for other

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EOS Timecode Companion

I often (well, reasonably often) work with timecode and ETC Eos. The excellent CuePoints has revolutionised this work flow, and exports files suitable for ETC Eos (and most other desks) to import. However, I wanted to be able to get these cues into an

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Rosco Opti-Sculpt Calculator

I've recently (re)discovered Rosco's excellent Opti-Sculpt filters, there's plenty of good resources online about them and some wonderful reviews from others waxing lyrical about these magical pieces of plastic. However, it surprises me that the official calculator for the resulting beam angle is

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Denon DN500BD Network Control

Quick hack for controlling the Denon DN500BD over a network without the remote.

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Lights and Music

One of the biggest challenges (or rather most time-consuming things) I have to deal with every musical, pantomime, or concert-type production is making effective lighting in time with music. The answer is, of course, time code and ETC Eos and QLab make this rather

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Pi Prompt Corner Display

Another in the #techbodgery series on using technology (on a budget!) to deliver features typically usually found in big venues to smaller theatres and entertainment venues. Today, we visit Prompt Corner, and look at how to make our SM (Stage Manager)'s life a

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House Lights

Simple 0-10v Theatre house light control system with ESP32 controllers and outstations.

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BOCA IMAGE (sort of)

The BOCA MiniMB (Now Lemur) printer has become a de facto standard in theatres and other entertainment venues for ticket printing. Unlike Zebra (which has numerous excellent online tools like Labelary's Free Online Editor for their ZPL language), tooling for the BOCA FGL (Friendly

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WLED and ETC Eos

TL;DR - At the time of writing this there is no official profile for the WLED ESP-based LED controller, so I've put this one here so I can find it again (and for anyone else who needs one) https://rmlx.co.uk/eos_

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ThermoBeacon - Low Cost Multi-Zone Temperature Monitoring

Well, that title was longer than I'd expected. I've recently become responsible for the tech and facility management at a small, 70 capacity, village theatre. One of our biggest problems is heating (it's 28kW of electric fans... hardly efficient in the modern world!) but

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Simple Pi Signage

I've done a lot of quite complex digital signage projects in the past, mainly using Raspberry Pis but also some other platforms, talking to box office systems, scheduling systems, providing dynamic wayfinding etc but a recent project called for something simple. We need a