Master control and Cue triggering with OSC

Controlling properties like Master fade & volume, Timeline play states and Cue triggers is done in Control by OSC window.

In this window you will see a list of all controllable properties and a corresponding OSC address.

Master control

When an OSC messages arrives with the correct address, say /la/playctrl/master/fade LightAct will look at the float argument and adjust Master fade property accordingly.

The green State LED will blink when an OSC message with the correct address arrives.

Timeline control

The OSC address that will switch a particular timeline to a particular play state is written in the Address column. You can, of course, change the OSC address to something else if you want.

Good to know: LightAct expects every OSC message to include an argument.

Cue triggering

Similarly to the other properties, the OSC address is written in the Address column, but please note that the numbers should be included in the address as well. These numbers are called CueX, CueY and CueZ and are a property of the cue.

Good to know: to trigger a Cue with OSC, the OSC address should include the CueX.CueY.CueZ numbers. So in the image below the OSC address should be /la/playctrl/cue/83.69.67.

The address of the incoming message should be exactly the same as written in the window. Looking at the image above, if the incoming address is /la/playctrl/cue/00.77.00, the cue is not going to get triggered.

However, if the address is /la/playctrl/cue/0.77.0, then it is going to be.