Micro Maestro and ECO-WORTHY Linear actuator wireless remote control switch

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Hi everyone,

So I am working on a project for a live entertainment show. It is a custom made kabuki drop that uses a linear actuator to trigger the drop. It is triggered by a ECO-WORTHY linear actuator wireless remote control switch which allows the stagehands to trigger the drop from afar. This custom box is an aluminum Econobox that has the linear actuator inside that protrudes from the bottom. The ECO-WORTHY and the actuator are powered by a Milwaukee 12V battery that is hardwired to the remote switch.
The idea I had was to replace the actuator with a servo motor. I believe it would solve 2 problems: 1. It reduces clutter inside the Econobox and wouldnt use unnecessary hardware that makes it hard to work on (the actuator uses brackets that are a pain to take apart with its hardware). 2. For the act its used for, the stagehands have to apply a specific amount of tension on the latch the actuator is attached to, to be able to release the drop (aka, they have protrude the actuator to a specific length everyday. They sometimes get it wrong which would either take longer for the drop to go after the stage manager calls or the latch would trigger before the drop was called). I believe a servo would mitigate this specific tensioning everyday when I could program 2 specific locations the servo could return to and could be programmed to the remote for quick deployment and resetting.

I acquired a Micro Maestro controller and a FEETECH FS90 micro servo to test it out. The question(s) I have are:
Could I use the wireless remote switch with the Micro Maestro and if so, how could I wire it to the controller?
Since the Micro Maestro doesn’t have any digital inputs, I read that I could use a relay with the ECO-WORTHY to trigger the servo with its wireless remote. Im not as tech savvy as I’d like to be, so Im not sure how I could pull that off though. Maybe there’s a more efficient way to make them work together?

As far as positioning, I was going to program the servo’s sequences in the Maestro Control Center and hopefully be able to trigger them with the 2 buttons on the wireless remote.

If I did a poor job explaining, please forgive me. I’ve been trying to figure this out on my own as a side project but I lack some technical skill.

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Hello.

I am not very familiar with the ECO-WORTHY wireless remote control switch, and it is not entirely clear to me how it works. However, to clarify, any Maestro servo channels can be configured to act as inputs (channels 0-11 are analog input and 12+ are digital-only). It looks like the outputs on that wireless remote control are intended to drive the linear actuator directly and it does not give access to any logic-level signals. You might be able to rig something up to convert those signals into something more appropriate, but unless you have a specific reason to want to keep using that remote system, you might be better off using a more suitable one. For example, you might consider the RF remote transmitters and receivers from Adafruit, which output a simple 5V high and low signal for each button and can be directly read by a Maestro channel configured as an input. They have a version of the RF receiver that outputs a momentary signal and one that toggles.

Brandon