I’m thinking about making an OSC controller for the SD12 consoles, since the app doesn’t seem to want to cooperate with the consoles lately, and I found this little exchange in a reddit thread:

u/Hertz_so_good on r/techtheatre Hi all, I’ve been looking to experiment with the new OSC implementation in my Digico SD9’s and SD10T, and I’m having troubles finding any sort of documentation. I know it’s mostly intended to control external devices from the console, but it looks like it should be able to work coming into the console as well. I know this is how the iPad app controls parameters. Ideally I’d like to be able to control specific parameters (typically just faders) from Qlab, without having to recall an entire console scene. Does anyone have any info about the OSC strings to accomplish this?

u/soph0nax DiGiCo has locked down a lot of their OSC implementation. I’ve seen a few shows convince them to unlock parts of it, but those shows required really good reasons for needing OSC access of things and had rental shop support and multiple levels of tech support covering their backs while they did it. Their network interfacing is already so buggy that I would proceed with optimistic caution. I’d say your best bet is to use Wireshark to sniff what you can from the iPad/Console link and feed the commands back into the console and see if that’ll work. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while but haven’t gotten around to it. I’m not sure if you’d need the initial console/iPad handshake to unlock OSC control though.

I just… if wireshark is your first point of documentation, surely you’re doing something wrong? I can’t say I’m particularly surprised, though. Locking down every bit of documentation about a piece of hardware that is integral to the operation of dozens of productions is kind of par for the course for pro audio. Why don’t you just use the app? It’s only missing features, filled with bugs, and super unreliable.

Don’t bother checking the reddit thread, by the way. There’s no information to find.