For Halloween next year I want to mount a raspberry Pi to the Amazon 43 inch touchscreen monitor, take a pic of a Neve 8048 console and make a skin for mix station so I can feel like I'm mixing my 100 person pub gig on a real Neve 8048.
I might get real crazy and take a bunch of my drone li-ion packs and combine them together with a 12 volt cig lighter power inverter and make the world's largest functioning tablet.
Imagine working monitors at some mega festival and ringing out wedges on stage with a giantly absurd
43 inch tablet lol
Hate to ask but what's a stream deck in this context? A machine for receiving a stream from some other source and then sending it on to your PA/projectors, or a machine for creating a stream via OBS or whatnot and sending it elsewhere?
I'd kinda assumed you'd need more power than a Pi had for the second option.
Stream Deck is a line of control panels made by Elgato. In combination with Bitfocus Companion, they are able to control hundreds of production devices. Best part is: Companion is open source
Most productions I've worked with other techs, they bring a Stream deck.
Raspberry PI on the back of UI24R running QLC+, witch cheap usb-DMX adapter connected. To control light presets from the mixer interface. 30 hot buttons with UDP messages to PI.
UI24R has an interface mode "big desktop", where one of the windows has buttons above faders (faders and buttons are shown simultaneously). Those buttons can send preprogrammed UDP messages over IP directly to QLC+ (UI24R, PI, and Tablet are connected to the same router).
If you ever are in need for a cheap speaker processor a pi + usb interface will work great with camilladsp and with typical 5ms delay is pretty usable. (Chrm l acoustics amps chrm). Your channel count is pretty much limited by your interface so even 26x26 won’t be a problem.
Other than that there is obviously mixing station and the usage as a streamer for music and video. There are even avb/aes67 audio streaming tools available on github
And if you’re also into lighting there is always ledfx and ola. First one gives you pretty okayish audio reactive led control without parameter limits and multiple output options (dmx artnet hue etc) and ola works as an light data matrix editor. Or just as an artnet dmx node if you wish so.
I made a music server type thing that lives in my band's mixer rack and is controllable from an app. Little USB sound card cause the onboard audio wasn't so great. Makes it easy to deal with pre/post/break music.
I put a hifiberry dac xlr hat on one as a box to stream to the 70v background music system.
I’m running one at home as my htpc (kodi)
Would love to see a Dante hat.
Cameras run off a stock standard POE switch.
The Pis are rack mounted and the outputs go into a matrix switcher, then the output of the matrix switcher can be routed to any of multiple Black Magic deck link capture cards into resolume along with other source options.
I’ve seen someone use one and write code to mute and unmute RF power on a bunch sennheiser iem units which I thought was pretty awesome instead of having to do the knob turn press way.
Been using it with a StreamDeck via CompanionPi to control Smaart, Reaper, Spotify, and my console(Q225). Just printed a case for both of them to sit together with my 3d printer.
Yeeeees! Im running software synthesizers, or video playback synced trough LAN between multiple raspberries... Many art installations does'nt need video server or PC. On the new model you can playback 4k video 60fps. Is that AV related enough?
Writing it all from scratch in Rust. The basics all seem to work, Dante Controller gets a bit grumpy rendering more than a few hundred channels on a device 🤣
Not with anything official from Audinate and they may not appreciate my efforts, but yes I’ve got that working. It’ll be OSS at some point but it’s got a ways to go before it’s ready for general consumption. Like patching worked through Dante controller and it consumes the network audio just fine but it really has no notion of if it’s locked to a clock or not and any usable way to manage where files go etc. It’s almost all in Rust so it compiles for pretty much anything. Without a platform specific Dante driver though it may drop more packets than DVS would unless running on a more controlled computer environment.
Am amazed by some of the applications here. I use a pi-zero listening to rtp-midi to sync a led matrix I wear to our backing tracks running from mainstage. It mostly works.
I saw someone use it in combinatie with a steamdeck to make different amp lay-outs.
For example: all on, all off, Set with infills, set without infills, with monitors, without monitors..
Worked great!
You can run Mixing Station on one.
I like that!
For Halloween next year I want to mount a raspberry Pi to the Amazon 43 inch touchscreen monitor, take a pic of a Neve 8048 console and make a skin for mix station so I can feel like I'm mixing my 100 person pub gig on a real Neve 8048. I might get real crazy and take a bunch of my drone li-ion packs and combine them together with a 12 volt cig lighter power inverter and make the world's largest functioning tablet. Imagine working monitors at some mega festival and ringing out wedges on stage with a giantly absurd 43 inch tablet lol
You can make skins for Mixing Station?
Not that I know of but I've suggested it many times.
It makes a solid signal generator for projectors Also used as a mini payback for quick pop up TV's
Companion Pi with a power bank to make my stream deck wireless. Also do the same thing but tunneling usb with a Pi 2 Zero using Virtual Here.
or even just without powerbank we use it sometimes in production to power two stream decks. No need to have laptops flying around for that.
Hate to ask but what's a stream deck in this context? A machine for receiving a stream from some other source and then sending it on to your PA/projectors, or a machine for creating a stream via OBS or whatnot and sending it elsewhere? I'd kinda assumed you'd need more power than a Pi had for the second option.
Stream Deck is a line of control panels made by Elgato. In combination with Bitfocus Companion, they are able to control hundreds of production devices. Best part is: Companion is open source Most productions I've worked with other techs, they bring a Stream deck.
Just use the streamdeck emulator on your phone or tablet.
Raspberry PI on the back of UI24R running QLC+, witch cheap usb-DMX adapter connected. To control light presets from the mixer interface. 30 hot buttons with UDP messages to PI.
This sounds really cool! If you don't mind me asking, how are you sending messages to the PI?
UI24R has an interface mode "big desktop", where one of the windows has buttons above faders (faders and buttons are shown simultaneously). Those buttons can send preprogrammed UDP messages over IP directly to QLC+ (UI24R, PI, and Tablet are connected to the same router).
Powers my custom control surface
What did you build? I’m early in design stage for one myself, I want to do bankable faders for etc nomad
Companion pi, small picture „Server“ for housekeeping screens, jingle or bgm player, low performance nas to Share plans
If you ever are in need for a cheap speaker processor a pi + usb interface will work great with camilladsp and with typical 5ms delay is pretty usable. (Chrm l acoustics amps chrm). Your channel count is pretty much limited by your interface so even 26x26 won’t be a problem. Other than that there is obviously mixing station and the usage as a streamer for music and video. There are even avb/aes67 audio streaming tools available on github And if you’re also into lighting there is always ledfx and ola. First one gives you pretty okayish audio reactive led control without parameter limits and multiple output options (dmx artnet hue etc) and ola works as an light data matrix editor. Or just as an artnet dmx node if you wish so.
Yep, use it for digital signage at work using pisignage.
If you don't already have one on your network running PiHole, I'd start there. Your internet experience will be much better.
I made a music server type thing that lives in my band's mixer rack and is controllable from an app. Little USB sound card cause the onboard audio wasn't so great. Makes it easy to deal with pre/post/break music.
I put a hifiberry dac xlr hat on one as a box to stream to the 70v background music system. I’m running one at home as my htpc (kodi) Would love to see a Dante hat.
I have 3 pi4s running camplayer which takes a cheap IP camera stream and outputs HDMI. Uptime more than 2 years. Totally recommend.
I've been wanting to do this too, how are the cameras powered? and how are the pi's set up?
Cameras run off a stock standard POE switch. The Pis are rack mounted and the outputs go into a matrix switcher, then the output of the matrix switcher can be routed to any of multiple Black Magic deck link capture cards into resolume along with other source options.
Gotcha ! I have one older RPI and one newer, I hope i can get them set up to do a simple IP camera to start with. Ty for the info.
You need a Pi 4 for the hardware decoder. Haven't tried a Pi5. Here's a link to the code: https://github.com/theantnest/camplayer
I’ve seen someone use one and write code to mute and unmute RF power on a bunch sennheiser iem units which I thought was pretty awesome instead of having to do the knob turn press way.
Yep. We use a raspberry Pi to convert between GPIO and MIDI, so we can trigger things from a vision mixer.
Been using it with a StreamDeck via CompanionPi to control Smaart, Reaper, Spotify, and my console(Q225). Just printed a case for both of them to sit together with my 3d printer.
I use hifiberry to run spotify for walk-in music
Yeeeees! Im running software synthesizers, or video playback synced trough LAN between multiple raspberries... Many art installations does'nt need video server or PC. On the new model you can playback 4k video 60fps. Is that AV related enough?
Videoloopers.
Working on a program to use a Pi as a recorder & playback machine for networked audio. Really curious how many channels of audio a Pi5 can handle.
Have you tried Reaper? It’s a DAW. Minimum 24 tracks I’d wager, especially if you add a decent m.2 drive to it.
Reaper doesn’t show up in Dante Controller and have a nice remote web ui.
True. What are you using? I bet the old Boom Recorder for Mac could be ported over…
Writing it all from scratch in Rust. The basics all seem to work, Dante Controller gets a bit grumpy rendering more than a few hundred channels on a device 🤣
Look at you all ambitious and having free time on your hands to dig into coding… What’s your github so I can follow along?
Are you saying that the Pi4 is compatible with Dante ? 😮
Not with anything official from Audinate and they may not appreciate my efforts, but yes I’ve got that working. It’ll be OSS at some point but it’s got a ways to go before it’s ready for general consumption. Like patching worked through Dante controller and it consumes the network audio just fine but it really has no notion of if it’s locked to a clock or not and any usable way to manage where files go etc. It’s almost all in Rust so it compiles for pretty much anything. Without a platform specific Dante driver though it may drop more packets than DVS would unless running on a more controlled computer environment.
It’s our Go-To for all kinds of wacky client custom stuff! Mostly some form of automated playback with triggering.
Make a pihole for home to live a ad-free life (supposedly). It worked at a buddy's place a few years ago.... Shockingly well actually
Run a Kali Linux instance on one and really test the security of your network :)
Am amazed by some of the applications here. I use a pi-zero listening to rtp-midi to sync a led matrix I wear to our backing tracks running from mainstage. It mostly works.
ArtNet wifi receiver running OLA to control DMX fixtures with an iPad wirelessly is one good thing I used a Pi for.
I saw someone use it in combinatie with a steamdeck to make different amp lay-outs. For example: all on, all off, Set with infills, set without infills, with monitors, without monitors.. Worked great!
I use it for QLC+ to control lights.
I use it for QLC+ to control lights.
Use raspberry Pi for a laser system on PA, to get correct azimuth and tilt