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QLC effects generator for LED panels

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Here is another script I wrote some months ago. It’s called qlc-effects-generator.py. It’s a quick and dirty hack that generate chasers, groups and scenes for QLC (a QT-based DMX lighting software). It just produce XML statements you copy’n'paste in your .qxw QLC workspace file.

I used it to create some effects for my 4 el-cheapo Mac-Mah LED wider panels. This script helped me generate column and row presets of my 4×8 pixels LED matrix for some basic colors:

Here are some photos of my preliminary tests at home:

And finally photos of the panels on stage (taken by Toma Heroow during Cool Cavemen’s concert in last november):

As usual, use and hack this script at you own risks, and feel free to send me bug reports and contributions ! :)

QLC 3.0.0 for Mandriva 2009.1

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qlc-3-on-mandriva-2009 I’ve upgraded my old QLC RPM to the 3.0.0 version. This release is built for Mandriva 2009.1 and x86_64 architecture only, and do not depends on LLA. I also had to remove the FTDI output plugin as it doesn’t compile on my machine. You can find the QLC RPM in my repository.

In the end, this RPM is quite a prototype. I didn’t checked that it works well beyond the UI (check the screenshot for a proof). So use it at your own risks !

QLC 2.6.1 for Mandriva 2008.1

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QLC 2.6.1 on Mandriva 2008.1

I’ve just backported QLC 2.6.1 from Fedora Core to Mandriva 2008.1. Q Light Controller is a software designed to pilot lights (both moving and static ones) on stages via the DMX communication protocol. This is my first step to bring together two of my main recent interests: stage lighting and linux.

These RPMs are currently only available for the x86_64 version of Mandriva but includes the Open DMX USB drivers and Lighting Architecture for Linux (LLA) packages. All the sources of these packages came from the repository I found in the “LLA, OpenDMX USB and Q Light Controller Tutorial” tutorial.

I haven’t played with QLC yet: I’ve just started it and as you can see on the screenshot it seems to work. Happy testing ! ;)