Bitfocus Companion and Beyond

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Tesa

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Hi guys

I am trying to use a stream DeckXL with Beyond, to trigger the FX tab, but I can't find out how. I have read almost any thread here regarding OSC, but still don't know how it works. I know absolutely nothing about scripting, OSC commands and so on, and the more I read the more confused I get. Can someone explain it to me, like I was a 4 year old :)

Bitfocus companion and BEYOND.
 
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As far as I know, stream deck is not able to send OSC.

As alternative you could use send2b.exe, and have Stream Deck execute the exe file with an additional OSC command:

Code: 
FXClick 3,1

where 3 = the FX row and 1 is the FX cell.

So that would make

Code: 
Send2b.exe FXClick 3,1
 
I use Companion a lot, so let me try to help you. But what do you mean by "trigger the FX tab", do you mean the "effect" tab by "live control", "pangoscript" etc.?

Generally for using Streamdeck to send OSC, use Companion and make a "generic OSC" instance. Then make a button in Companion that send a given OSC command, it just needs to correlate to the one Beyond listens to. Then go into OSC Server in Beyond and make a receiver. Not everything you might want to control is controllable, but you can set up some quite nice stuff here. See attached pics.

instance.PNG osc send.PNG beyond osc.PNG
 
Additionally, you can open the Pangoscript editor >> click on objects >> Expand the object tree on For example "main graphics" and see and use one of the many default OSC strings can be used.

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Bob@Pangolin said:
As far as I know, stream deck is not able to send OSC.

As alternative you could use send2b.exe, and have Stream Deck execute the exe file with an additional OSC command:

Code: 
FXClick 3,1

where 3 = the FX row and 1 is the FX cell.

So that would make

Code: 
Send2b.exe FXClick 3,1
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Is there a list of all the commands that can sent with send2b.exe?
Where can that be found if it exists?
 
Send2b.exe can execute and send pangoscript commands. You can export the complete list from the Pangoscript editor.
 
Hey all, thanks for the info! I'm still struggling with this quite a bit: I think my problem is somewhere in my IP addresses. I followed the instructions above but to dumb it down: it doesnt seem like beyond and the streamdeck are talking. Any tips?

Thanks so much!
 
Are you trying to send OSC commands from Companion to Beyond on the same computer? If so, make a generic OSC device in Companion with the ip address 127.0.0.1 and a port. I use port 8000. Then make sure you are listening to OSC on the same port in Beyond.
 
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