Project: Controlling lights and sound with PowerPoint

ojacques
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Project: Controlling lights and sound with PowerPoint

Post by ojacques »

Greetings all,

I'm a happy owner of DMXIS and ShowBuddyActive. Recently, I wanted to control my light rig while presenting slides with PowerPoint.
I wrote a tool which I released for free in Open Source:
https://github.com/ojacques/PowerPointToOSC

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You use it by adding OSC commands in your slides speaker notes, like:

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OSC: /dmxis/preset/1
OSC: /test1 i 123.45
OSC: /test2 f 123.45
OSC: /test3 s teststring
OSC: /test4 b true
In my case, I use it with DMXIS hardware + ShowBuddy Active or plain DMXIS software. You can use it with any software which understands OSC (yes, that works with Ableton, or a bigger lighting console like GrandMA3, or digital mixers).

This way, you get to control lights, sounds, every time you go to a new PowerPoint slide, or when you click through animations.

Wow effect guaranteed :D
Hoping some of you will find it useful. Feedback appreciated.
DMXIS since 2015, Show Buddy Active since 9/2019.