Very basic and naive question

Masiar

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Mar 7, 2012, 6:35:57 PM3/7/12

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Hello everybody. I'm working on a project and I would like to know if
OLA fits in it. Basically we have 14 box of lights composed of three
lights (RGB I guess, I haven't seen them, but I've been told so), my
work consist in writing a program that fetches some data online and
changes the color of the 14 boxes depending on the data fetched
online.
I would like to know if OLA is the right framework I should use to
control the lights from the software. If it is, I would like to know
how hard could this be and if there is a tutorial that explains how to
play with lights like these, maybe more than just one, just to be sure
not to have one light working and not 14 altogether.

Thanks, and sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm really new in this
field.

Masiar

Hippy

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Mar 7, 2012, 7:37:03 PM3/7/12

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Yes, OLA would be a good way to accomplish your goal. You could simply use the command line tools to provide basic control over your lamps.

Specifically the ola_streaming_client.

http://www.opendmx.net/index.php/OLA_Command_Line_Tools

cheers,
Hippy

Simon Newton

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Mar 7, 2012, 8:15:15 PM3/7/12

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Do you know if your lights are controllable via DMX512? That's the key
requirement.

Simon

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Masiar

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Mar 10, 2012, 6:02:15 AM3/10/12

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On Mar 8, 2:15 am, Simon Newton <nomi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes they confirmed yesterday that the lights can be controlled via
DMX512. If that's the case, is OLA suited?
Which kind of programming language are you suggesting me to use to
develop that kind of software?

Simon Newton

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Mar 10, 2012, 6:40:34 AM3/10/12

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Masiar <masi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 8, 2:15 am, Simon Newton <nomi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Masiar <masia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello everybody. I'm working on a project and I would like to know if
>> > OLA fits in it. Basically we have 14 box of lights composed of three
>> > lights (RGB I guess, I haven't seen them, but I've been told so), my
>> > work consist in writing a program that fetches some data online and
>> > changes the color of the 14 boxes depending on the data fetched
>> > online.
>> > I would like to know if OLA is the right framework I should use to
>> > control the lights from the software. If it is, I would like to know
>> > how hard could this be and if there is a tutorial that explains how to
>> > play with lights like these, maybe more than just one, just to be sure
>> > not to have one light working and not 14 altogether.
>>
>> > Thanks, and sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm really new in this
>> > field.
>>
>> Do you know if your lights are controllable via DMX512? That's the key
>> requirement.
>>
>> Simon
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>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Masiar

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> Yes they confirmed yesterday that the lights can be controlled via
> DMX512. If that's the case, is OLA suited?
> Which kind of programming language are you suggesting me to use to
> develop that kind of software?

Yes, you can use OLA to control them. You'll just need to purchase one
of the supported USB DMX devices. There are APIs for C++, Objective
C++, Python and (pretty soon) Java.

Simon

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