Remote control and comments
With remote control, you operate SPL Sense from SPL Cloud, for example a Raspberry Pi in a rack or a laptop at another stage.
Prerequisites
- Allowed in SPL Sense: Settings › Cloud › Allow remote control. Off by default. This way the person on site always decides whether their instance may be remote controlled.
- Instance online: commands only go to a connected instance. There is no queue.
- Pro on the measurement: only measurements with Pro can be controlled.
- Permission: the owner of the instance; for an instance of an organization, all members. People with read access or a shared link can never control.
- SPL Sense version 2.0 or later.
What is possible
On the instance or measurement page, in the Remote control area:
| Action | Note |
|---|---|
| Start, Stop | |
| Leveler bypass, Disable bypass | |
| Switch measurement (Make current), deactivate | only when the measurement is stopped |
| Create a New measurement | with name, day boundary and a value profile template of the instance. The cloud uplink is always on; Pro can be activated at the same time. |
| Change name and day boundary | not while the measurement is running |
| Change Offsets | not while the measurement is running |
| Switch Value profile | one of the instance’s templates; not while the measurement is running |
| Leveler settings: mode, limits, line offsets | also during the measurement, applies immediately |
| Complete measurement, Reopen |
Measurements on the instance shows all measurements of SPL Sense, including those without cloud uplink. Only measurements that are in the cloud and have Pro can be controlled.
What is not possible
- Calibration and software updates
- Measuring the line offset (needs noise and silence on site)
- Setting up the leveler connection
- Editing custom limits in the value profile; this is only possible on the instance
Confirmation and feedback
Every command that changes something asks first, with measurement and instance in the text, for example “Stop measurement ‘Main stage’ on ‘Laptop-FOH’?”.
After that, the cloud reports the result. If the instance doesn’t answer in time, the message says that the command may have been executed anyway; check the state of the instance in that case.
In SPL Sense, every command from the cloud appears as a message, and the measurement’s events show who triggered it (remotely by …).
If people on site and in the cloud change something at the same time, the last change wins.
Comments and excluded time ranges
With Pro, you can also add comments and exclude time ranges in the cloud in the Events area, just as in SPL Sense. This also goes via remote control: the instance must be online and allow remote control.