The monitor shows all available PSN Servers and trackers on the selected network
You can convert angles to radians or degrees depending on what the server is sending
Easily see if you lose trackers
Choose your network interface and customize your port and multicast address You can also pause PSN reception and transmission
Send PSN trackers manualy
This page allows you to emulate PSN Tracker
For testing or offline work
With each created tracker you can control the three axis with sliders or enter a value manually You can also start an automation for position and orientation
In the tracker settings you can choose to use position, orientation, speed, acceleration and target position
Choose between radians or degrees unit for rotation output Even control the tracker with DMX to pre-program your show, you can choose Art-Net or sACN protocol in the settings page
You can find the fixture libraries below, in the application settings you can choose between 8, 16 and 24bit precision.
Customise your server name and frame rate, choose on which interface you need to output, and also the port and multicast address
Convert PSN Trackers
The conversion tab display the state of different converted trackers.
Converted trackers
With a converted tracker you can:
Convert the rotation unit of a tracker to degrees or radians, the standard is radians but some systems use degrees
Swap axes, because some systems use Y for Up and others uses Z
Add offsets to the values, useful if systems origins are different
Invert received values
Use a constant value on axes
Application example
Converted trackers allow you to simply send the trackers to different applications
In example, most systems uses radiant for rotation but GrandMa 2 consoles uses degrees
Combined trackers
With a combined tracker you can specify two input trackers and a distance between them, the combined tracker will be at the center of them and calculate an approximate angle*
It is useful for structures hanged with two points if the motion system which is sending PSN only send height of hoists
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The calculated angle is an approximation of the reality, the real angle depend of various data like weight and gravity point that make the calculation very complex, it’s a known limitation of the function and it’s provided as it is.
Merged tracker
With merged trackers you can build a new tracker from two trackers, it’s possible to choose vertical axis from one tracker and translation axes from an other one.
This can be useful when using a lift on a trolley in example.
Circular tracker
The circular tracker is useful when you only receive rotation on a tracker and you need X and Y.
The settings
Few settings are available in the application:
Startup projects and notifications
Tracker timeout for the monitor
Default values for new tracker created in the Send tab
The network option allow you to include interfaces with self-assigned IP and local interfaces
You can choose the DMX protocol you want, and also the input interface and the precision between 8, 16 and 24 bits.
You can activate OSC output, choose output interface, port, frame rate
Other features
When minimized, the app hides in the tray and continues running in background
Need a second window for the monitor page? No problem, just open the app a second time!
