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Get Anyma uDMX USB-to-DMX adaptor working with controller software, for testing #3

Closed zarino closed 5 years ago

zarino commented 5 years ago

I’ve tried plugging the Anyma uDMX into my Mac, and using QLC+ to control the lights on our DMX Decoder, but even after reducing QLC’s uDMX frequency down from 30Hz to 16Hz (as suggested here), the signals seem to stop after 5 seconds of activity.

The Anyma website says you can control the uDMX adaptor directly from the command line, via a uDMX binary (eg: ./uDMX 1 255 255 255 255) but I tried downloading their Mac binary, and it refused to run, with a Bad CPU type exception – is it possible that the binaries on the website we compiled for… PowerPC?? Surely not.

Maybe another DMX controller software might work. The Anyma website says the uDMX is compatible with OLA, so maybe it might also be compatible with a whole bunch of other pieces of software.

zarino commented 5 years ago

This has been done. See https://zarino.co.uk/post/udmx-mac/ for details on how to send simple test commands from the command line on a Mac.