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Captivate Lighting & Visual Synth

captivate's Issues

Windows Support

I'm creating this issue for people to subscribe to in order to be notified when you release a Windows version.

I simply request that you comment when you have progress updates, need beta testers, etc...

When there is finally a stable release, please close the issue.

Thank you for your hard work!

Generic Color Support

Multi-Zone Fixtures

I have 3 different lights that support zones, these zones can be controlled independently with the right channel mode set.

• Chauvet DJ Intimidator Trio
• Chauvet DJ ColorBand H9 USB
• Chauvet DJ Wash FX HEX

These lights would benefit from being able to control each zone independently to produce additional effect options.

Error: A JavaScript error ocurred in the main process

Hi, I downloaded and installed Captivate on my Win 7 x64 SP1 and it crashed:

I tried to install it on C:\Program Files\ but is the same result.
Cheers.

All 512 DMX Channels in ChannelGUI

In the DMX Channel GUI there where shown only 128 Channels.

Additional Color Support

This is a feature request to support colors of Amber and UV.

Most of my DJ fixtures support Amber, it is one of my pre-requisites for a light actually, helps with the color tone of some hues.

FR: Retrigger Modulation at Scene Switch

Hi !

To be able to live play with drum pad on flexible tempo,
It would be nice if scene switch could retrigger modulation from start when they are switch, or recalled (if they were already active).

Thx !

Custom Parameters

Allow users to add generic parameters for their lights.

Also add preset params that are commonplace in fixtures

• Speed
• Zoom
• Rotation

To prevent these from creating too much noise for users with a simple setup, filter params shown in the lighting tab based on whether they are required by fixtures in the universe.

Open DMX USB Support

Official Linux build

Would be awesome to have official binaries for Linux, i.e. something like a binary tarball that ships a version of Electron and an asar archive and/or an AppImage.

A Flatpak package might be nice too.

Cannot get output to USB device even though it is recognized

Prerequisites

• I'm not in a dev environment, I'm on release.

• Using npm

• Using an up-to-date main branch

• Using latest version of devtools. Check the docs for how to update

• Tried solutions mentioned in #400

• For issue in production release, add devtools output of DEBUG_PROD=true npm run build && npm start

Expected Behavior

I should get output to my USB DMX device.

Current Behavior

I do not get output to my USB DMX device, even though it is recognized.

Steps to Reproduce

• Connect this (my) USB controller to the computer.
• Select the USB controller within captivate (see picture)
• Set some outputs as per device manual
• Nothing happens
  

Possible Solution (Not obligatory)

I don't think there's output to the USB device.

A workaround for the moment could be loopback output, because then I could reroute it through QLC.

Context

Well, this template isn't very helpful. lol

Yo, I'm a hobbyist and I own a cheap chinese DMX dongle and 2 cheap chinese DMX moving heads.
I'm trying to get captivate to run them but it doesn't output anything.

How do I know it's on captivate's end? Well, it works in QLC+. In QLC, when I click the 'Output' checkmark to my USB device, the moving head starts a blinking light, indicating it receives signal. When I adjust sliders, I can control the device as expected.

In Captivate, this indicator never starts blinking, which suggests to me it's not receiving any signal.

QLC reports the device "has DMX512 output support for DMXKing ultraDMX range, Enttec DMX USB Pro, Enttec Open DMX USB, FTDI USB COM485 Plus1, Vince USB-DMX512". The driver it's using is is libFTDI at 30Hz, in Open TX mode.

I retrieved the log file from Captivate, but nothing interesting is posted:

[2023-11-20 20:41:22.192] [info]  Checking for update
[2023-11-20 20:41:22.236] [info]  Generated new staging user ID: e56a1ae7-0960-590e-9992-59e611f823cb
[2023-11-20 20:41:23.412] [info]  Update for version 0.9.7 is not available (latest version: 0.9.7, downgrade is disallowed).
[2023-11-20 21:00:09.168] [info]  Checking for update
[2023-11-20 21:00:10.498] [info]  Update for version 0.9.7 is not available (latest version: 0.9.7, downgrade is disallowed).

Captivate looks great, I'd love to try it out! I'm happy to help with any efforts that lead to a reproduction or solution to the issue. I'm a developer myself, if that helps, so I should be able to build the project myself if need be.

Best wishes! 🙌

Your Environment

• macOS Ventura (13.6) / macOS Sonoma (14.0) (yes I tried on both)
• Intel chip (2019 in my macbook pro, Intel 11700k in my hackintosh
• Captivate Version 0.9.7
• This Chinese USB Dongle
• This Chinese DMX512 moving head

Lights with multiple "Modes"

As an example, I have a moving head, this light supports a zoom and a rotation.
I would like to be able to control these independently, but there is only one mode category.

It might be beneficial to be able to configure individual channels of a fixture on the Light Scene page.
If so, I would want to be able to set a min/max on that channel per scene, for example, throughout the program, I may want to have my zoom be available for the full range, but this particular scene only 50%-100%. I thought I might be able to set this from the ramp modulator, but I can't move the graph up or down, just towards or away from the middle.

Midi sync directly from midi device without having to go through Link

This is a great piece of software with huge potential. I've used it once in a hardware jam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnu-JTLMiH4), and while it was pretty cool, it also forced me to goa via Ableton Live running Lite, something that made syncing all my hardware gear much more complicated. In a dream world, I would like to be able to sync Captivate directly with midi clock. One can dream, right? 😴💭🌈

FR: Asymetric shapes and halt at end modulation

Hi,

Currently modulation are looping based on tempo.

It would be nice if they would start animate and then stop when reaching last right value, without cycling back.

This would also means that we would need asymmetrical shapes, basically, easing curves like that would be nice: https://easings.net/

Even free form shapes would be nice (if we want to hold initial moment a bit for eg).

Thx!