Use QLab to trigger sequences in FPP

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Tim Hutson

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I am using my Christmas setup (Five F16V3 controllers) to control three very, very large matrices for a theatrical play in three months. Unlike a normal Christmas show, this will be a live event requiring dozens of sequences to be triggered in real time during the course of the play. Using FPP to trigger each sequence individually will be clunky and not very professional. I would like to use our normal show controller (Q-Lab (made by Figure 53)) to control FPP with midi triggers. Does anybody know of a way to do this? I now there is a midi plug-in for FPP but I don't know how to use it or if it is even the right approach for what I want to do.
 
You might check out https://falconchristmas.com/forum/index.php?topic=16232.0 and see if that guy ever got it working.


Does it need to be midi? I would think the FPP API would be much simpler to work with but I don't know QLab (from https://auschristmaslighting.com/threads/fpp-api-documentation.11980/)...

http://{{fpp}}/api/help

and

http://{{fpp}}/api/commands

The first lists most of the general REST api's. The second lists the commands that can be hit. All of them can be invoked either via GET (http://{{fpp}}/api/command/CommandName/arg1/arg2/.... ) or via POST to http://{{fpp}}api/command/CommandName where the payload is a JSON array of strings.
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I believe QLab support OSC cues. You likely can use that to trigger fpp commands via the fpp-OSC plugin. You wouldn't need separate MIDI hardware or anything connected to the FPP instance.
 
I actually did get this to work, but I used the script Q command inside of Q lab and simply had chat. GPT make basic scripts that will trigger against the API rest.

I had to establish a public token between my Mac terminal and the FPP Pi in order to get Q lab to send the cues without needing the password for the pie, but once this was established a simple script queue for start playlist allowed me to modify all of my different sequences in singular playlist to be fired by Q lab for the theatrical production.

Just posting this in case anybody else spends days trying to figure out how to get Q lab to talk to FPP!
 
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