Hi, great video. Do you prefer Companion instead of Streamcontroller? Do Companion have State function, so you can have two commands on one button and the image showing if is on or off? Learning curve?
Yes to be honest right now I've been using Companion although StreamController is progressing well. Companion is probably richer in pure raw formatting and controls for each button. Companion calls their stats Steps. So yes with adding Steps and Feedback you can achieve that. The use of system as well as custom variables is probably what make sit so powerful.
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@@GadgeteerZA I'm gonna use it mostly on Reaper (DAW) and I saw that you can copy Reapers shortcut/command actions in Companion. I also want to use MIDI controls, as CC 7 CC 11 and I beleive that wouldn't be any problem. I saw a MIDI connections to add so that might can come in handy. First look a little to much things with variables and other stuff that I don't know what they do. I'm on Linux Manjaro KDE Plasma as you. Reaper is also on Linux. Thanks again. If I stumble on something, can I ask for some help?
Sure I can try help. They also have quite good support via their project at github.com/bitfocus/companion/discussions and their Slack channel.
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@@GadgeteerZA Thanks. I found Facebook page also, so I posted couple of questions there. We see if I get some answers. What I been struggling with for the past hours is to change a Play button (grey) when clicked on start Play and changed to green so I see that it is active. I come so far that when I press is it turns green but when I release it goes back to grey again. If you don't have time it doesn't matter. I'm arguing with myself: StreamController or Bit Companion. StreamController seems easier to handle.
Yes the colour change and actions are the easy part but ideally you want to be able to read a status so that a button reflects the status of what you're monitoring. The OBS Studio, Home Assistant, and VLC connectors read that sort of status to display buttons status. So unless you can have access to APIs to provide that info, it becomes very much a case of pushing commends out and hope they are exceuting.
Not that I'm actually seeing for a POST no. Not sure if the POST can be followed by a GET to achieve something similar. But I'm thinking too that it should allow for some or other response processing to determine if the POST was successful or not. I'd suggest though you look at the issues logged at github.com/bitfocus/companion-module-generic-http/issues and engage with them there to otherwise suggest it.
OK not 100% sure but it will follow the rules of whatever works in the command line. So try open -a "App Name" and see if something like that works. You may need to specify a full path. Otherwise worst case a script file may also work. Once that works, a lot of possibilities open up.
This can be very useful thank you. 🙌🏼✨
Good to hear!
Hi, great video. Do you prefer Companion instead of Streamcontroller? Do Companion have State function, so you can have two commands on one button and the image showing if is on or off? Learning curve?
Yes to be honest right now I've been using Companion although StreamController is progressing well. Companion is probably richer in pure raw formatting and controls for each button. Companion calls their stats Steps. So yes with adding Steps and Feedback you can achieve that. The use of system as well as custom variables is probably what make sit so powerful.
@@GadgeteerZA I'm gonna use it mostly on Reaper (DAW) and I saw that you can copy Reapers shortcut/command actions in Companion. I also want to use MIDI controls, as CC 7 CC 11 and I beleive that wouldn't be any problem. I saw a MIDI connections to add so that might can come in handy. First look a little to much things with variables and other stuff that I don't know what they do. I'm on Linux Manjaro KDE Plasma as you. Reaper is also on Linux. Thanks again. If I stumble on something, can I ask for some help?
Sure I can try help. They also have quite good support via their project at github.com/bitfocus/companion/discussions and their Slack channel.
@@GadgeteerZA Thanks. I found Facebook page also, so I posted couple of questions there. We see if I get some answers. What I been struggling with for the past hours is to change a Play button (grey) when clicked on start Play and changed to green so I see that it is active. I come so far that when I press is it turns green but when I release it goes back to grey again. If you don't have time it doesn't matter. I'm arguing with myself: StreamController or Bit Companion. StreamController seems easier to handle.
Yes the colour change and actions are the easy part but ideally you want to be able to read a status so that a button reflects the status of what you're monitoring. The OBS Studio, Home Assistant, and VLC connectors read that sort of status to display buttons status. So unless you can have access to APIs to provide that info, it becomes very much a case of pushing commends out and hope they are exceuting.
Hi Danie, do you perhaps know if you can save the return json to a variable from a HTTP POST request?
Not that I'm actually seeing for a POST no. Not sure if the POST can be followed by a GET to achieve something similar. But I'm thinking too that it should allow for some or other response processing to determine if the POST was successful or not. I'd suggest though you look at the issues logged at github.com/bitfocus/companion-module-generic-http/issues and engage with them there to otherwise suggest it.
How can to to use companion to open an app on my mac
OK not 100% sure but it will follow the rules of whatever works in the command line. So try
open -a "App Name"
and see if something like that works. You may need to specify a full path. Otherwise worst case a script file may also work. Once that works, a lot of possibilities open up.
@@GadgeteerZA ok thank you