WAV Trigger - UDP/OSC

Hi! This is my first post. I hope everyone is doing well.

I’m wondering if there is a way to set up a WAV Trigger with OSC or UDP control of playback. On a scale of 1-10 in terms of my knowledge of how these things work, I’m about a 4.

I do tech support for a company called ENTTEC that makes a show control device for lighting cues called the S-Play. This device has the ability to send UDP, OSC, or RS232 commands to other devices. At the end of the day, when someone walks past a threshold, I have a motion sensor that will tell the S-Play to run a lighting effect and play the audio.

Is there a solution using Sparkfun components? I already have the WAV Trigger in my possession.

Thanks!

At this stage of early R&D, I’d consider using the simple toggle inputs already available in the WavTrigger.

Use either the existing threshold motion sensor output or the lighting input/power to synch the audio trigger(s).

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Oh man, I didn’t even think about that. The show control device has relay outputs. I was looking at it from the completely wrong angle. I can wire it up rather than try to use network based commands. Thanks so much for getting me pointed in the right direction!

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There are such massive benefits to using addressed/networked I/O, plain ol’ fashioned point-to-point discrete ‘relay outputs’ is easy to overlook. I was thinking you’d be hacking an existing sensor & light, basically tapping off them. But since it seems you have the ability to manipulate (increase n?) the controller ports, of course there’s a lot more you could try.

I once had a place with a spiral staircase and I toyed with the idea of lighting a few steps forward as someone went up or down with half a dozen little sensors to evaluate position. I never got around to building it and I haven’t lived there in ages but your question reminded me of the project and, it didn’t occur to me at the time, a stairs up / stairs down sound might have been neat.