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Having wireless access to your lighting system can add a tremendous amount of flexibility both in the realms of installation/programming and end user control. Having wireless access allows you to program your system while freely walking around the installation and it also allows for end users to use smart phones and tablets to control their systems with [...]

For those who need to do custom interfacing with the Programmer software, the built in UDP server- is a good choice in some cases. While the UDP server lies at a lower level than the HTTP server, it does have the advantage of being quite a bit faster. I’ve found it useful particularly when I [...]

In an earlier article I explained how to get the HTTP server up and running. Once it is working, you should be able to go to http://yourserverIP/ActionPad/ActionPad.html but who is going to remember that whole ugly path name? I’m going to show you how to create a simple redirect so that you can just go [...]

In order to connect to e:cue devices your computer must be within the same subnet as the devices (192.168.123.x). This article, derived from an article at Wikihow, will show you how to change you IP address in the 3 most recent releases of windows.

The e:cue support staff often receives calls for help from people who can’t get their butler to come online. It is very rare that the butler itself is faulty; generally there is one of a few things configured incorrectly. Here is a series of things to check before calling tech support:

1. Make sure your computer’s IP address is set in the 192.168.123.x range (where x is greater than 1 as this is the butler’s default setting).
   

There are a variety of reasons that you would want to use remote desktop software to control an e:cue server, and there are different tools to suit different needs. I tend to use 3 different peices of software depending on the situation. All of them will display a window with the desktop of the host computer, allowing you to interact with it as if it were your computer.