Usage?

[findkiko]

Hi, this looks useful to me. Thanks for putting it up here, just in time! Just curious about how to tweak it for our setup. I see you have 53x1 in your settings.xml Is that the only thing I'd need to change for a different grid layout? Our OPC server already knows about our led strip configuration, This client should just send a big rectangle of pixels to render correct?

[iKadmium]

Hi there,

First, my apologies for the state of the project. It's in pre-pre-pre-alpha at the moment and I haven't tested most of its functionality thoroughly enough yet. That said, it "should" work, but there's no real guarantee of that.

For a different grid layout that should be all you need. It won't even make that much of a difference to most things, only a few of the effects.

There are three adapter modes, specified in the settings file.

• Copy, which takes 3 DMX channels, red, green and blue, and copies them to all the pixels.
• Gradient, which takes 6 DMX channels, two lots of red, green and blue, and makes a smooth gradient between them.
• Program, which takes 7 DMX channels and gives a bunch of flexibility. The channels are red, green, blue, strobe, "apeshit" (like a strobe effect but quickly turns on only one random pixel at a time), Program (which chooses an effects preset) and Offset (which animates that effects preset). Effects presets are defined in the effects XML file, and there aren't many of them yet.

I hope this is helpful. Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with. Theoretically it shouldn't be that complicated but I think I've just proven the opposite, haha.

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Hi, this looks useful to me. Thanks for putting it up here, just in time! Just curious about how to tweak it for our setup. I see you have 53x1 in your settings.xml Is that the only thing I'd need to change for a different grid layout? Our OPC server already knows about our led strip configuration, This client should just send a big rectangle of pixels to render correct?

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[findkiko]

Big thanks. Yeah shouldn't need to get too deep in the weeds. We've got fadecandy boards that speak OPC. But the non-coders are dying to use something simple like glediator to control artwork, which speaks artnet, so we just need a translator while we don't have any kind of gui of our own yet. Thanks for your help. We'll try it out over the coming days.

[LarsHanegraaf]

Hi, I'm also interested in this piece of software, but I don't know how to run it. I have a program that sends Art-Net (Madrix) and want it to connect to a Fadecandy board as noted by @findkiko. I have a superficial knowledge of Java (a little bit of programming in DrJava), so I guess I have to compile it, but could use help with that ;). Thanks in advance!

[iKadmium]

Honestly, it's not really very friendly for public consumption at the moment. I got it to a stage where I could use it myself (being intimately aware of where it could explode and knowing how to avoid that) and then stopped working on it. I might take another look at it today and see if I can do something to make it better for that.