Adding ola-dmxmonitor and console to running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system

[Dan Sloane]

Dear all,

Is there a simple, remote, way of adding ola-dmxmonitor and console to an Ubuntu 16.04LTS with OLA installed from packages?

I'm in a "get customer out of jail quickly" situation and have OLA running on a live 16.04LTS connected to an Artistic License Artnet2DMX interface that is known to work.   Two universes of DMX are connected to switch packs.

As the packages for 16.04  don't have these handy command line tools, it's hard to check whether the computer is outputting the channels I request. 

Can the compiled binaries be added to the existing installation and if so, what's the best way of doing so?

Thanks

Dan

[Peter Newman]

Hi Dan,

Will the web UI not do the job?

Otherwise if you're happy for a slightly clunkier interface, ola_set_dmx/ola_streaming_client would let you generate DMX from the CLI.

In terms of receiving DMX, running this in one window/session:

./examples/ola_recorder -u 0 -r test

Then this in another:

tail -f test

Would show you received DMX; the first number on each long row is the universe and the comma separated list of values are the channels.

The missing commands need ncurses and it looks like that wasn't added to the deb so they weren't built.

Otherwise you could try rebuilding that deb locally or trying the ones from Debian ( https://packages.debian.org/stretch/ola ) or just building those two files and copying across, but you might have varying levels of success/risks of breakage.

That version of OLA is very old and that OS is no longer supported (unless you're paying Canonical) so an upgrade is probably worthwhile at some point soon anyway.

[d...@sloane-squared.com]

Thanks Peter.

The server I'm running OLA on is very much a stable production machine that does other 'master' system control, including PDU and PXE boot stuff, so the upgrade from the installed 10.04LTS was a little delicate.  Fingers crossed I can get another support contract from the clients and make the next leap to 20.04LTS. 

I couldn't get a response from the web UI and it wasn't listening on 9090. 

As the router has now stopped letting me in, I'm going to head on site, replace that and leave a more recent machine dedicated to running OLA.    The installation was all operated from a now equally dead and always underutilised e:Cue server.    Ten 4-channel Anytronics switch packs don't need that much control power.  :)

Regards,

Dan

[Peter Newman]

Yeah I appreciate an upgrade can be easier said than done, hence a few off the wall ideas for how to get/set the same data.

Ah, I wonder if that's also the Ubuntu build where they missed out the webserver too...

Glad you've got a new solution anyway!