Third Party iPhone App – WholeHog3 iPhone Remote App

With iPhone’s and iPod Touch’s gain more and more popularity and the addition of third party apps over a year ago, our little friend has become more and more useful by the day because of software developers and just all around smart people with in our small community.

Jon Griffin, a lighting design and owner of  www.housetohalf.com has been developing his own iPhone app to control a hog3 control desk which he calls the WholHog 3 iPhone Remote App.  Jon has been developing this app on his own and is not in any way affiliated with High End Systems or Barco. What is interesting is that he is not “developing” a stand alone app, but uses an emulation program for windows and the iPhone called Snatch Server and Snatch iPhone App.  Jon has made “screen overlays” with common buttons and functions found on a Hog3 desk.

Jon originally developed this app for his personal use but has now made it available for others to download and start using it with their Hog systems.  More screens are planned and in development and will be added to his site as they are finished. To download and setup the Hog3 iPhone Remote App, head over to Jon’s website at www.housetohalf.com.

If you are an iPhone App Developer, Jon is looking for you! Contact him via twitter @housetohalf.

ML Electronics Announce LED Controller iPhone App

ML Electronics based in the UK has announced a new iPhone app for controlling LED lighting systems. The new LED control system is able to be controlled from either an iPhone using the new app or a PC over a unique protocol that ML Electronics developed using a 24 VDC supply line.

The system is operated using one or more master controllers which address a number of slaves, and each slave controls clusters of three RGB/white LEDs. The master can be controlled via Ethernet, Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), Bluetooth, DMX512, DALI or any custom control interface. As part of the development, ML Electronics produced both PC and iPhone applications to address the master via Wireless LAN.

The slaves are connected to the master using a two-wire low voltage 24 volt supply, and each slave is capable of controlling the colour and brightness of up to 50 Watts of LED illumination from data command signals superimposed on the power line. A master unit injects control data onto the low voltage supply line controlling the slaves using the MLE protocol. Each master can control two ‘strings’, each with 16 slaves. These strings can be wired in parallel, so that each slave produces the same colours, or in series, allowing slaves to produce different output colours if desired. No earth is required, and there are no separate control lines.

Currently, the new iPhone app is not showing on the iTunes app store.  For more information about the low volt LED control system from ML Electronics, visit their website at www.ml-electronics.co.uk.