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Ok don't look at me weird, but this is something I need to come up with a solution for quickly. Not sure whether it belongs in home theater or Networking either since it's both.. I am the go-to lights and sound guy for the local community theater, and I have just finished installing a brand new sound system for them. TBH the route the board president went with equipment is not how I would have done it, but I was not consulted on the equipment purchase, I was just asked to install it. The amp is an Audio Authority SonaFlex 16x16 matrix switcher. It does fit the bill for the input and outut/zoning needs of the building. However I am running into a problem with control. I have discovered that it is not designed for the kind of hands-on switching that we require for production use. The configuration utility is useless for hands-on control. The unit has two dry contact inputs for switching "overrides" (preconfigured input/output patches) which I have gotten to work, but that is not enough I need at least two more). The good news is that it offers complete control by issuing simple commands to a built in telnet server. This is designed to integrate with home automation systems such as Control4. I have not had luck doing so via the sound cue software we use (MultiPlay - which was abandoned by the developer years ago, and the Telnet Cue functionality is apparently incomplete). I can type commands via PuTTY, but that is tedious during production. Is there anything that anyone knows of that works like a "soundboard" app to where I could set it to connect to the unit and configure buttons that will issue these commands? For example if I want to activate preprogrammed Scene 1, I would send [U1SP1LOAD]<ENTER> and it would respond with (U1SP1LOAD) {notice brackets on the command, parentheses on the response}. Literally every function, including I/O patches, volumes/mutes, advanced DSP, scene snapshot/recall, etc can be controlled via these commands. Any ideas? Acknowledging/parsing the response isn't crucial as long as I can send the commands at the click of a mouse or Android tablet button.
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