This tutorial briefly presents how to interact with an Arduino UNO Ethernet shield. Very special thanks to Ed Wolf and Hour To Midnight – Room Escape Games in Portland, Oregon USA. for this excellent tutorial. Please check the following presentation and the attached files: What you will need: Arduino UNO Arduino Uno Network Shield 8-channel Relay https://amzn.to/3CmMcam https://amzn.to/3inMyFM […]

Since ver 1.56, HMC supports screen actions. When a game is in progress, on the main console, click on <Shortcuts> tab and select <Screen Actions> 7 preset effects are available Blank Screen Fade out Pulsate Highlight Bounce Old TV 1 Old TV 2 To recover the content of the in-room screen, simple click on <Reset […]

Code and original article https://github.com/aberteau/NwIO/tree/main/doc/Houdini-MC Very special thanks to Amael BERTEAU NwIO allows using an ESP32 to control inputs/outputs over HTTP using WiFi Connection. It sends the state of an input to an HTTP server It can change the state of output depending on HTTP calls Therefore, an ESP32 running NwIO can interact with Houdini […]

To start with, execute Houdini MC and go on the “Settings-> Connections” tab. Enable the “Incoming HTTP Requests” and note down the given URLs. This option allows Houdini MC to perform as a receiver. Please make sure that your router always assigns Houdini’s PC the same IPv4 address. From this moment, Houdini MC is ready to receive incoming requests. […]

One instance of Houdini, multiple identical rooms. Go on “Settings->Multiple Screens” to enable this option. All the in-room screens share the same theme, the same countdown timer, the same soundtrack, and the same scheduled events, but different clues. Click on “Get Remote Access URL”. Houdini MC will display a different URL for each instance. Use […]