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I am a happy CTO of a SaaS AI company but ever since I graduated a double Msc in computer science and EE, I miss playing with PLCs. It seems to me that the wor

I am a happy CTO of a SaaS AI company but ever since I graduated a double Msc in computer science and EE, I miss playing with PLCs. It seems to me that the worlds of industrial computing/EE and software are finally merging. Being involved in Navigator design & dev must be an amazing job. Anyone has more technical info about it? I guess it's probably a bunch of QNX hosts sharing data on Modbus and from there bridges to the light show & al to synchronize everything? Their careers section mentions Siemens gear but not much more...

thomasfedb 9y ago
Would also love to know more about this tech. I dabbled in show control (MSC) when I was a lighting tech with my high school theatre company. Loved it, but it barely worked... Running MIDI over WiFi between two computers running QLab is not a good idea!
- lostgame 9y ago
  To get around this, I used to create ad-hoc WIFI networks with my iPad running Lemur and my MacBook Pro running Ableton. The local network, always hosted on the Mac, was absolutely reliable enough to do live-streamed, videotaped combo theatre/musical performances with. I literally counted on it. I still had an MPD32 by my MacBook in case it messed up, but over a series of 7 performances it never did. Many of these are even on video. Call it luck, though. I considered myself crazy for doing it to the point where we actually wrote the use of the iPad into the script, it affected our whole team that much. I was a lot more of a naïve girl back then with regards to the reliability of these things. Or possibly, back then, shit was just more reliable (here’s looking at you, Sierra/High Sierra/iOS 11).