A node.js library for controlling the multi-camera trigger boxes from ESPER Design (AKA Better Things LTD) via USB.
This project is under active development and is not yet ready for external use. We will update with releases once we feal it is in a more mature state.
The library has the following requirements for use:
- System must be supported by Node SerialPort which is used for low level USB-UART communication.
- Trigger Boxes need to be running firmware v1.3 (we recommend using ESPER's control software to update)
- Any needed USB drivers should be installed as recommended by ESPER here
We are targeting having this up as a standard NPM package and will update these instructions once it is published.
We are attempting to create two interfaces:
- A high-level interface where the individual commands for the trigger boxes are predefined and the quirks of communicating with it are handled for you.
- A low-level interface that simply establishes a connection and let's you send any commands you like.
We hope to build the library in such a way that changes in behaviors and instruction sets between firmware versions can be accounted for in the high-level interface without much effort. However, the low-level interface is there to allow use of newer firmware commands or other changes without us having to build a new higher interface for it.