RGB Matrix with sunstrip

[Joep Admiraal]

First of all, best wishes for 2014 everyone!

I was at a gig last week were we had a bunch of Showtec sunstrips hanging next to each other.
It were 6 bars and each has 10 lights.
It looks like a 6x10 matrix :-)
I thought it would be great if I could control those through the RGB matrix functionality.

This is not possible at the moment right?

[Jano Svitok]

Hi,

unless there is a bug, this should work:

1. add 6 generic dimmers with 10 channels each
2. create fixture group 6x10 (or 10x6) and add those dimmers to it
3. make sure the heads in the group are properly arranged
4. create RGB matrix for that group

If anything goes wrong, report here. The intensity of the lights should depend on the
intensity of the color (to make it simple use white).

If it works fine, take some pictures and write a tutorial :)

6 pixel high should be almost enough for simple letters.

Also check out the "Image" type -- you can create png/gif images in any editor and load them to the matrix (remember to make them really small! 6x10 pixels).

For simple animations, create e.g. 36x10 image, set type to Animation, and
6x10 parts of the image will be displayed one after another.

[Joep Admiraal]

Ah that seems like a solution.
Thanks!

With the dimmer fixture, each channel is recognised as a pixel in the fixture group.
I don't own the sunstrips, but the next time I rent them I'll take some pictures :-)

[Joe]

Jano,

Never realised that was how you do animations. I've been creating sequences to no avail. It seems that if QLC+ recognised image sequences this would but a much more effective way to do it. I make my graphics in Photoshop, and then animate them in After Effects.

Joe

[Jano Svitok]

Joe,

I have now found that QLC+ contains special definition for Sunstrip, and it did not have properly defined heads. That made it unsuitable for RGB matrices. I have now fixed it in git. If you use it/want to use it, just download from git/github and replace in your installation.

[Joep Admiraal]

Nice, I will test it when we rent the sunstrips again.