RDM Test Setup Procedure

Install OLA

Follow one of OLA on OS X or OLA on Linux or OLA on Windows with VMWare to install OLA. If you want the biggest benefit from the tests you should use the version in the git repo as tests are added regularly.

Setup the Test Rig

The following controller devices are supported:

• RDM-TRI
• DMXter4 RDM / MiniDMXter
• Robe Universal Interface (latest firmware required)
• DMX USB Pro (latest firmware required)

DMXter Instructions

You need to put the DMXter into dongle mode. From the RDM menu, hold the left and right buttons and then hit the center button. The display should change to "USB Dongle Mode".

RDM TRI Instructions

In order to use the full test suite you need to use this interface in raw RDM mode. This allows the test suite to send malformed & unusual RDM packets to check the responder does the right thing. [TODO(someone): confirm which version of the firmware you need for this]

To enable raw rdm mode, in ~/.ola/ola-usbserial.conf, change the tri_use_raw_rdm line:

tri_use_raw_rdm = true

Connect the device under test to the controller and start olad. Patch the output port on the controller device to a universe (UNIVERSE_NUMBER).

Starting the Test Server

To start the test server, from the command line type:

rdm_test_server.py 

If you don't have olad running you'll see an error like the following:

Checking olad status
Error creating connection with olad. Is it running?