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Remote control of QSC PLD amplifiers over network instead of USB - SOLVED!
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<blockquote data-quote="Brian jojade" data-source="post: 12653" data-attributes="member: 211"><p>I just picked up some QSC PLD amps. I was disappointed at the decision to have USB interfaces on the amps, as the amps live on stage, and I wanted to be able to monitor them from FOH.</p><p></p><p>I know you can get USB extenders and run USB over cat 5, but that's just one more wire I'd have to run, and that didn't sound like fun. I've already got WIFI in each amp rack, so there has to be a way, right? Well, I did find some commercial products available that run software on a dedicated computer that would have to live in the rack. The price was insanely expensive, and the whole dedicated computer in the amp rack seemed out of line. Well, I found the perfect solution in the Raspberry PI. For those of you that aren't familiar, the PI is a tiny little computer about the size of a business card that you can run Linux on. In searching the software, low and behold, there's USB over IP available as a package, and it's FREE!!! A Pi costs around $35, so I ordered one up. It took me about 2 hours to get everything installed and working, which included installing an OS on the thing, and learning how to use it, and all that fun stuff.</p><p></p><p>Then there's just a simple client you install on your laptop that lets you connect the virtual USB port to the machine and bam, the amp is visible on the network. </p><p></p><p>This is seriously awesome stuff!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brian jojade, post: 12653, member: 211"] I just picked up some QSC PLD amps. I was disappointed at the decision to have USB interfaces on the amps, as the amps live on stage, and I wanted to be able to monitor them from FOH. I know you can get USB extenders and run USB over cat 5, but that's just one more wire I'd have to run, and that didn't sound like fun. I've already got WIFI in each amp rack, so there has to be a way, right? Well, I did find some commercial products available that run software on a dedicated computer that would have to live in the rack. The price was insanely expensive, and the whole dedicated computer in the amp rack seemed out of line. Well, I found the perfect solution in the Raspberry PI. For those of you that aren't familiar, the PI is a tiny little computer about the size of a business card that you can run Linux on. In searching the software, low and behold, there's USB over IP available as a package, and it's FREE!!! A Pi costs around $35, so I ordered one up. It took me about 2 hours to get everything installed and working, which included installing an OS on the thing, and learning how to use it, and all that fun stuff. Then there's just a simple client you install on your laptop that lets you connect the virtual USB port to the machine and bam, the amp is visible on the network. This is seriously awesome stuff!! [/QUOTE]
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