Hello everyone!
I’m working on an installation that will be unsupervised most of the time that will turn on at dusk and turn off at dawn to save projector’s lamp hours.
With that said, i was wondering if there is a way to use an IR led, maybe with an arduino or another board to turn on and off a projector at a specified time of the day from TouchDesigner.
I’ll probably have to use a receiver first to capture the power signal from the remote, but i’m a bit unexperienced on the topic, so i have basically 0 clue on how to do it
Hi @Sator_Arts,
often times projectors are controlled via a RS232 port and there are examples here in the forum.
Most modern projectors will have some form of network based control but all of this depends on the Projector Model. The User Manuals of the projectors will have details on that.
Programming an Arduino to act as a remote might be a fun research project but you would have to check the Arduino forums for that.
cheers
Markus
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Hi Markus, thanks!
Mine unfortunately doesn’t have neither any serial port or newtork connection, except from wifi, but it only works for streaming and only works while the projector is on.
I’ll see if i can find one with either serial or ethernet connections to control it remotely