Qlab control made easy

twistedpianist · 30 Oct 2024, 17:11

I've finally managed to use flic to fire the GO button on Qlab without a hub.

I've been searching for answers everywhere and got an overly complicated response from Flic customer services that was no help at all. So... I'll put it here in case it can help someone else. It's so simple.

Open the Flic app, and select OSC. Port is 53000. Message is /workspace/{name of your Qlab workspace}/go

Make sure your workspace in Qlab is set up to accept OSC messages. (file/workspace settings/control/OSC)

And that's it!!! Why could no one tell me that?!

roger 0 · 30 Oct 2024, 17:17

@roger-0

error response on phone is is A type is missing a value

roger 0 · 30 Oct 2024, 17:11

@twistedpianist

hi twisted I have done all this and it does not work, maybe I got the workspace name wrong
the work space is
/workspace/Teaching Jhalaak.qlab5/go

is putting the .qlab5 wrong? I tried with and without but I get no response from qlab mobile Go button.
everything else , the port is all good.

flashkes · 22 Oct 2024, 05:27

hi,
I want to connect flic to Qlab via Mac, what do i need to buy?
Do i need to buy Hub LR? or only Flic bottom is enough for controling?
thank you
Hila

luis.cirque · 10 Nov 2023, 17:11

With OSC you can do much more. I guess you found all the commands you can use in the QLab website?

You have two other options as well:

Make your flic a MIDI controller, and connect it to Qlab.
It's a bit annoying to connect it to the mac though...

Instead of looking for the Flic in the bluetooth settings, you should open "Audio MIDI Setup", and go "MIDI Studio".
(If it's not showing it, go to "window" and "show MIDI Studio".

Then you click in the little bluetooth logo and choose your Flic there.

It's funny how many times it disconnects itself...

Another simple way is to simple set your Flic as a keyboard, and choose it to reproduce a Space bar.
Then connect to it as a bluetooth device and that's it.
The thing about this is that you need to make sure that QLab is the program running in front of all the others, otherwise the space bar doesn't control it...