This project is currently in a very not-even-alpha state.
Expect lots of things to change in lots of ways.
Drive OLA (Open Lighting Architecture) with an API
- Tests, tests, tests
- DMX Previewer
- Command Line Args
- Refactor into a library
- Web API
You will need OLA installed (ideally, for ease of setup, on the same machine), on many systems this is as easy as sudo apt/yum install ola.
You will then need to navigate to the web UI at http://localhost:9090 and create a Universe with ID 1 and the appropriate device.
This has been developed with Python 3.7, which is the recommended version but Python 3.6 & 3.5 may work.
Replace python3.7 with the name of the Python 3.7 binary on your system. It could be python3.7, python37, python3 or python. Check with python --version.
Make sure you have pip
python3.7 -m ensurepip
Install pipenv
pip install pipenv
Install the app
pipenv install
Run it
pipenv run python main.py
or
pipenv shell
python main.py