Managing DMX 512 QLC lighting on RASPBERRY PI
So when you need to budget and adjust the light, managing remotely from a tablet or laptop. All that I write below is a purely budgetary solution, which will have to be a little tricky brainwashing. But the end result is worth it.
Rapberry pi QLC+ deb install
Thanks to Menshikov Ilya for the finished assembly. You can download the installation DEB file on the page QLC+ deb install for Raspberry pi and Orange Pi Version: 4.12.7 2023
What you need
- Raspberry PI B ++, RASPBERRY PI 2 or RASPBERRY PI 3 (It is possible to obtain and Orange PI)
- WI-FI Whistle
- Udmx or ARTnet interface
- Patience
- Flash memory card
Customizing Raspberry PI
We will configure and download everything on Windows 7 ( or on any other Windows, I configured it on 64bit )
Download
- OS RASPBIAN JESSIE QLC+(Ready my image with QLC+ RASPBIAN + XTE )
Установка RASPBIAN
Unzip RASPBIAN JESSIE WITH PIXEL (we should get a file with the extension .img) Install and open the program Win32diskimager, and first we will select a USB flash drive where we will write the system, after we select our unzipped file, and click the Write button ( write )
After completing the recording on the flash card,
Go to it and create a file wpa_supplicant.conf ( This file is responsible for configuring the network )
In it we will see the following:
network={ ssid="YOUR_NETWORK_NAME" psk="YOUR_NETWORK_PASSWORD" proto=RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=CCMP auth_alg=OPEN }
Ssid = “YOUR_NETWORK_NAME”
is the name of our WI-FI network ( YOUR_NETWORK_NAME change to your )
Psk = “YOUR_NETWORK_PASSWORD”
- the password of our network ( YOUR_NETWORK_PASSWORD should change to your password )
Proto = RSN
- to protect your network, it can be WPA1 or WPA2 (for WPA2, it uses RSN
, and for WPA1 it's just WPA
in most cases this parameter track not necessary).
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
- The parameter is responsible for encrypting the password, WPA-PSK (in most cases) or WPA-EAP (in corporate networks) ( parameter too tracking does not follow )
Pairwise = CCMP
- for WPA2 leave CCMP
, for WPA1 change to TKIP
Auth_alg = OPEN
- leave it as it is.
Connect with SSH
When we learned the IP address of our raspberry, run PUTTY and connect to SSH
And after a successful connection, the raspberry will ask for the login and password
Default:
Login:pi
Password:dmx-512.ru
RDP Connection
To run the RDP client under Windows, run on your computer:
1. Press the menu “ Start ” (“ Start ”) → select the item “ Run …”(“Run…”) (или нажмите сочетание клавиш WIN+R):
2. In the window that appears, type mstsc.exe and click “ OK ”:
3. Enter IP address RASPBERRY in the field “ Computer ” and press the button “ Connect ”:
4. If the “ can not be authenticated ” window appears, check the box “ no longer display the query ” and press the “ Yes ” button:
Discussion
Hi, can you provide a guideline or a tutorial about how to compile QLC+ on Raspberry and/or Orange PI? If yes maybe a cross-compiling procedure (if exists) would be better in order to reduce the time needed for the compiling.
Hi,
The version for raspberry pi3 B + is not ?
Well thank you
the build version is built and tested on raspberry pi 2 model B. Everything works fine on it. No raspberry 3 to check this.For the raspberry 3, you need to manually compile the QLC, it may take several hours to compile the code.
Hi, After uploading the image according to the guideline I have raspberry on 3 model + no booting. Where can be a mistake? Can you help me ? Well thank you
try to boot from another flash drive