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I feel I’m a little over due on an update with where MerQury’s development is. So here is the whole bag of beans.
Qloud becomes MerQury
I posted several months ago about an application idea called ‘Qloud.’ That project has offically been renamed MerQury. It turns out Qloud is already a product.
Development thus far:
Today MerQury is in alpha testing at Shakespeare Theatre Comapany in Washington, DC (I happen to be an engineer there). The application is being used to “sync” two macs running Qlab together over a network connection. It still works like I described in my December 13th post.
I also have a native iPhone remote working. Its still very basic. Here’s the sneak peak video I released to youtube. It’s going to get quite complex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89-njYzVVs
A lot of work has been going into debugging code and refineing the UI. Here is a an image of the latest build.
Logo / Icon
I have to give a big shout out to Tom Hayward for creating the MerQury logo. If you need graphics work…he’s your guy.
ToDo Before Release:
There are still several bugs to chase down before I can release to the public.
I would also like to implement MIDI and OSC support for the beta release. Its getting close, a month or two I hope.
Features to come:
There is a rather long list of functionality I would like to add. Once the basic desktop version is working, my focus will shift heavily to finishing the iPhone / iPod Touch versions…which I imagine will lay the goundwork for a iPad version.
Development continues as fast as possible. 60+ hours a week at work is really slowing me down. Go figure. More to come!
Oh…and thanks for stopping by!
Just a quick update. Coding and testing continues. If you haven’t heard, I have a working prototype of MerQury on the iPhone. No release date set yet….but it’s getting close.
“Messenger of the cue gods.”
MerQury
MerQury is my second application for use with Figure 53’s Qlab 2. MerQury was developed as a simple way to implement a redundant Qlab system over an easy to use network setup.
Admittedly, it’s not the best solution. There is a bit of latency between the pressing of “Go” on one system and the cue going on the second system. MerQury cheats by pushing the load time on the backup computer forward a fraction of a second to compensate until it’s called into show duty.
It is, however, the cheapest, fastest, easiest solution. No matter what hardware configuration you have on either machine, as long as they have the same Qlab 2 file and a network port, you’ll have a parachute.
MerQury is easy to setup. Simply make sure your Macs are on the same network, and MerQury will use Bonjour to automatically find copies of itself running online. After that, a few clicks on each computer and you’re set.
MerQury is currently in the alpha testing phase. The image below is an early build to test the underlying code.
Look mom, I’m ugly!
In the coming weeks, MerQury will be available for beta download and testing.
BUT WAIT!!!
..there’s more. It turns out the networking code will theoretically let many Qlab systems to talk to each other. Hot on the heels of the 1.0 release, I’ll be working to add a multitude of features.
Stay tuned!
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