qShowDesigner is a Qt based cross platform application for controlling and monitoring Elation Show Designer 2 lighting controller using the serial/com port.
The Elation Show Designer 2 is an "Intelligent" lighting controller for controlling up to 1024 DMX channels. It features a serial port that allows access to control, monitor, back up, and program features of the controller. Elation provides a few different utilities to access these features but the utilities are windows only (although they do work under wine) and the user interface didn't fit my specific needs.
I wrote qShowDesigner to be cross platform utlity to allow viewing fixtures, viewing scenes, and selecting scenes.
- Compact UI to allow "always on top" functionality without getting in the way of other programs
- Ability to view all fixtures and channels of each fixture
- Ability to view and select page and scenes
At the moment, binary packages are not available. To install, you must build from source.
- Install Qt 5 development packages or download and install from the qt.io website
- Clone this repository
- Run qmake to generate source and Makefile
- Build with make
- Run the binary with the command "./qShowDesigner"
Development is still a work in progress. The only implemented features are
- Change Page Number
- Select Scenes 1 - 12
To use the current version:
- Choose File->Connect and select the serial port connected to the Show Designer.
- Click buttons 1 - 12 to select the scene
- Double click the label next to the button to edit it