Support multiple lights?

[istathar]

This is working in StreamController, which is awesome given how many different tools I have tried to get to control a Stream Deck +. Nice job.

I've run into an interesting challenge: I have two Key Lights, but when I change the IP address in the Action dialog for one light it change the address of the light I thought I was connecting to the other button.

Am I missing something obvious, or are we going to have to hack the state machine under this plugin to be able to support multiple lights?

[oparada1988]

when attempting to add a second light, streamcontroller will crash. Testing on a Stream Deck XL.

[cozybuild]

Currently it's only possible to use one light. Multi-light support will come in the next version, which will be ready within the next days

[cozybuild]

I'm currently working on a globally manageable device manager. So you can assign existing lights to multiple actions without remembering the IPs. Aliases are planned for a later state. The PR #6 is still WIP, a few things need to be fixed.

[istathar]

Nice!

I installed a Windows in a Gnome Boxes VM just so I could run the Elgato software and see if it would even work. It did, sort of. They used the device name and the four digit hex code which came from the displayName field in the response to GET from the http://{IP}:9123/elgato/accessory-info endpoint. which in this case were

Elgato Key Light 499A
Elgato Key Light Air 51FC

Someday trying to parse that, or productName or one of the other fields there to decide which icon to show would be very cool, but for now that name might be well if the user hasn't set an alias (or as subtext small font below the alias).

[hirnschmalz]

I checked out this branch to try the multi light support. I can add my Ring Light and my Key Light, and I can control both of them. But there seems to be a problem: if I change the brightness from one light, both percentages are changed on my StreamDeck display. Furthermore, if I set the brightness from one light to 1%, and afterwards use the dial of the StreamDeck to change the brightness, the brightness is first set to 1% and afterwards modified.

[cozybuild]

Yes, there are some small issues in this branch (that's why it's WIP), I think I'll find some time in the next days to clean it up. The default %1 is another topic, there should be a GET request in the future to get the current settings from the light (if you change it from the app in parallel for example). There is already a TODO in the code and another open topic #9 (comment)

[mike3nl]

@cozybuild Hello from the Netherlands.

Question: how fare are you with your work to implement the multiple lights now?
It would be very interesting to see it coming to live.