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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.

  • 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
Flash drive for RASPBERRY must be at least 6 class, and its minimum size is not lower than 4 GB of memory. Better Flash 10 class. I tried 6 classes on 8 GB, I did not start, raspberry is very capricious to flash drives

We will configure and download everything on Windows 7 ( or on any other Windows, I configured it on 64bit )

Download

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 ) <WRAP center round tip 60%> In order to enable SSH access, we need to create a ssh or ssh.txt file in the root of the flash drive </WRAP>

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.
<WRAP center round tip 60%> After setting up and connecting RASPBERRY PI at boot, the WI-FI whistle should light up. Check the connection of raspberries, you can in the settings of the router. </WRAP>

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:

, Via Grappa 32, 2019/06/23 14:56

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.

, 2019/03/06 15:36

Hi,

The version for raspberry pi3 B + is not ?

Well thank you

, 2019/03/06 23:58

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.

, 2019/02/12 12:22

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

, 2019/03/03 02:08

try to boot from another flash drive

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