Mixing studio lights and flashguns

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I'm sure someone here has tried this before...

I have a set of BXRis with Skyport wireless transmitter and would like to supplement my set up with my flashgun, namely a Canon 580EX. How do I set the flashgun up to speak to the transmitter?

I wouldn't have thought possible but have a Nikon SB800 that I'm selling, which was on once whilst I was using the studio lights and went off...
 
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When I need more than my pair of studo lights I add in my Speedlite's. I fire the speedlite remotely using my RF602's and they trigger the studio lights on their photocells.
 
You can get an extra universal receiver for the Skyport and hook the 580 ex to that. That's the cleanest solution probably. Cheapest would be an optical slave but I'm not sure which one would work as many optical slaves "hang" the canon flashes after one shot.

I do what Donald does, I put my skyport transmitter away and switch to the RF602 when using speedlites. Then I just put the RF602 receiver on the speedlight with no optical slave (like your 580ex) and put the other speedlite + my studio strobes on optical slave mode.
 
All good solutions above.

I'm not that familiar with Nikon, but doesn't the SB800 have regular optical slave built in? If it has and you can get that going, then you're set - it will just fire of your studio heads. Alternatively, a tiny little optical slave (£10 Jessops, £5 ebay) fitted to the hot shoe will certainly do it.

Unfortunately you can't just put a regular optical slave on a 580EX for the reasons Vaisky said - it locks up after one flash (although there is at least one brand of slave, Sonia, which is modded to overcome this). You can get one from Flash Zebra in the US, but I don't know of a UK source.
 
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