Open Lighting Project

2012-09-16T18:48:58Z

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The Open Lighting Project is a multi-faceted effort aimed at accelerating the adoption of new, standardized control protocols, while also providing high quality, reliable, open software for the lighting industry.

Contributions to date include:
* [[libartnet]], An [[ArtNet]] implementation for Mac, Linux and Windows & iPhone.
* [[OLA | Open Lighting Architecture]], a framework that enables protocol translation from legacy, closed protocols and abstracts control software from the underlying hardware / protocol. This includes support for [[E1.31]] (Streaming ACN) and [[E1.20]] (RDM).
* [[RDM Responder Testing| Automated RDM Responder Tests]], which aims to increase the quality of devices as more manufacturers adopt [[RDM]].
* [[Arduino RGB Mixer]], open source firmware for Arduinos, so that they can be used as a simple RGB Color Mixer.
* The [http://rdm.openlighting.org RDM Parameter ID Index], a searchable, royalty free index of manufacturer specific PIDs used in [[RDM]].
* opendmx.net, this website.

Use of our logo is covered in the [[OLA Logo|Logo Guidelines]].

The primary method of communication is via the [http://groups.google.com/group/open-lighting Open Lighting Mailing List].

Software from the Open Lighting Project is used around the world daily. The [[Open Lighting Projects List]] documents some known uses. Feel free to add to it.

==Code Contributors==

* Bastien Andrès, contributed to the dmx4linux plugin
* Harry F, for the Eurolite USB Pro code
* Heikki Junnila, bug fixes for the debian packaging files
* Laurent (Renzo), Debian packages, FreeBSD & RDM testing.
* Masaki Muranaka, various patches
* Nicolas, for the win32 port of libartnet
* Ravindra Nath Kakarla, RDM Test Server (Part of [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/organization/google/gsoc2012/openlighting Google Summer of Code 2012] ).
* Rui Barreiros for the FTDI plugin
* Tobi Schäfer, for the MacPort files

==Project Supporters==

Many thanks to the following people / organisations that have supported our efforts:

* [http://www.anyma.ch Anyma], provided a [[Anyma_uDMX|uDMX]]
* [[Artistic Licence]], provided a [[Net-Lynx]] & Down-Lynx for Art-Net / RDM testing and a [[Rail-Tran]] to test [[RDM]] support
* Andrew Frazer, who sponsored the development of ola_trigger with a [[RDM USB Pro]]
* [http://www.creativelighting.com.au/ Creative Lighting], provided a [[SLAMMO XC-1]] & [[ADDICT]] for [[RDM]] testing.
* [[Enttec]], provided a [[DMX USB Pro]]
* Eric Johnson, for hosting the server used to test & debug much of the RDM code.
* Florian from eventa.ag who donated a [[StageProfi]] and a [[USBDMX2]]
* [http://www.goddarddesign.com/ Goddard Design], who made available a [[MiniDMXter]]
* Jason Kyle from [http://www.DMXking.com DMXKing.com] provided a [[DMXking USB DMX512-A]]
* [[JESE]], provided a [[DMX-TRI]] & [[RDM-TRI]] & Tempest Enclosure to test the RDM implementation.
* [http://www.lumenradio.com/ LumenRadio] who provided a Nova TX2 RDM, Nova RX RDM and Nova FX units and a Raspberry Pi.
* [http://www.martin.com Martin Professional A/S] which loaned a Mac 700 for RDM testing
* Peter Kirkup, from [http://www.zero88.com/ Zero 88] who donated a Betapack 3
* Petr from [[ROBE Lighting]] who loaned a [[Robe Universal Interface]] and [http://www.robe.cz/products/article/robin-600e-spot/ Robin 600]
* [http://www.sandsys.com/ Sandsys], donated a [http://www.sandsys.com/products/SB-AAA2100.htm SandBox]
* Shaun Jackman, answered questions about the [[:Category:Pathport|Pathport]] Protocol
* [http://soundlight.de/ SoundLight] who loaned a 3604PWM-H device
* [http://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au West Australian Academy of Performing Arts] (WAAPA) for access to a [[Strand Lighting]] console.

== How You Can Help ==

There is plenty of opportunity to get involved. If you would like to help with any of the following (or have your own ideas) then please get in touch with us on the [http://groups.google.com/group/open-lighting Open Lighting Group]

* Technical Writers, the documentation could do with some cleanup.
* Packagers, we need people to build binary packages for Mac, Debian/Ubuntu and RPM-based distros
* Windows programmers, are you interested in helping [[Building_OLA_for_Windows| port OLA to Windows]]?
* Java programmers, we need someone to write the Java client API [http://code.google.com/p/linux-lighting/issues/detail?id=15 ]
* Equipment donation, do you own or know of a [[:Category:USB | USB interface]] or RDM device we don't support yet? Consider lending it to us.
* Web designers, the web UI could do with a facelift.
* Monetary donations, cash helps buy more equipment to test with, you'll get your name listed and a warm fuzzy feeling inside :)

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