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Software to support hand bell and tower bell simulators,

A) Handbell Manager for Ringingroom.com (This program also works with Muster)

B) Serial Port interface for Tower Bell simulators for Ringingroom.com etc.

B1) Multibell Serial Port interface for Tower Bell simulators for Ringingroom.com etc.

C) Interface for mobile phones as motion controllers for Ringingroom.com and Abel

D) Interface for mobile phones as motion controllers for Handbell Manager

 

Background

Ringingroom.com provides a virtual belfry environment for ringers to ring together at a distance. It accepts keystrokes.  Using controllers, with real ringers on every bell or pairs of hand bells, it is now possible to ring performances which meet the Central Council framework criteria for peals.

Another new platform with similar objectives using Abel is called Muster

 

A) Handbell Manager for Ringingroom.com and Muster (details here)

 

This a version of Graham John's handbell manager, modified to use ActionXL motion controllers with Ringing Room (ringingroom.com)

 

B) Serial Port interface for a single Tower Bell simulator and serial handbell controllers (details here)

 

This interface program takes the serial port inputs from tower bell simulators like the Saxilby simulator and provides keystroke input to Ringing Room (ringingroom.com), Muster, Abel etc.

 

B1) Multibell Serial Port interface for multiple Tower Bell simulator and serial handbell controllers (details here)

 

This multibell interface program takes the serial port inputs from tower bell simulators (using either the Bagley interface of port signals) and provides keystroke input to Ringing Room (ringingroom.com), Muster, Abel etc.

 

 

C) Interface for mobile phones as motion controllers for Ringingroom.com, Muster and Abel (details here)

 

This interface program takes receives accelerometer input from Android mobile phones and provides keystroke input to Abel and Ringing Room (ringingroom.com)

 

D) Interface for mobile phones as motion controllers for Handbell Manager (details here) 

 

This interface program takes receives accelerometer input from Android mobile phones using a virtual joystick port program feeds that data to Handbell Manager.