Lanbox

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The Lanbox is a dmx lighting controller produced and sold by CDS Advanced Technology bv. https://www.lanbox.com/service/about/

Particularities of the Lanbox include:

  • The Lanbox can work as a standalone controller: Every time it gets plugged into electricity it will start from exactly the state where it has last been saved last, which can for example be the beginning cue of cue list consisting of follow cues with waiting times between the cues. It can therefore be used standalone for example for installations, where the same program should be executed every day.
  • The Lanbox Reference Chart gives a complete list of Hexadecimal Codes that need to be send to the Lanbox via USB or Network connection in order to execute certain commands. This allows for the development of a Lanbox library in any programming language on the basis of which own software patches can be written to control lights. Gangplank has been invested in developing such a library for the Pure Data visual programming language (