Raspbery Pi 1 Model B - QLC+ Software Download

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sturgjoh
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Hi,

I have just realised that QLC+ is not compatible with my verison of Pi. :-(

I have an original Raspbery Pi 1 Model B. I am posting to ask if it is possible to still download (happy to make a donation) a compatible version of the QLC+ software that will run on the ver1 Pi.
I plan to buy a DiscoHAT http://discohat.com/ add on board and want to use an old computer monitor, USB mouse & KB, and create a simple DMX lighting controller system with the existing Pi that I have.

I say simple, in that I have in mind only 3x channels of dimming Par56's and 8 LED RGB parcans split into 4 groups - i.e. Max approx 15 channels of DMX in one universe cabled to .

I've used QLC+ sucessfully with a borrowed laptop and external USB to DMX dongle thing and it worked really well for me to create simple illumination type scenes for a small stage, and dim the house lights, and I don't need lots of additional functions in the QLC+ to work.


Is this possible? I am hoping that someone (maybe Massimo is reading this?) can let me know if the download would still be available? I don't intend to network this so will not need the latest security updates in the build. Just need it to be stable of course. Happy to pay a donation of course and if I ever can justify a Pi 3 then I would go for the latest version of course.

Thanks in advance

John
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The Pi 1 / Pi Zero support depends on how I compile the Qt libraries, on which QLC+ relies to work.
At some point I thought that the Pi 1 is not so popular anymore and having dedicated libraries for the armv7 architecture would give a bit of optimization benefit on Pi 2 and 3.

However, there is still Pi Zero out there (which I haven't been able to purchase yet) and that's quite similar to the Pi 1 (armv6)
So I still need to decide if I will produce one image for all the Pi models or if I will produce a Qt package for the Pi 1 / Pi Zero arch.
Probably I will opt for the second, and give instructions to those who will want to walk that way.
As soon as I have some time, I will do it, and update this thread when the software is ready.
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Update: unfortunately mixing QLC+ and Qt libraries doesn't work :cry:

I built some generic Qt but QLC+ doesn't run on it. It needs to be compiled on a specific version of Qt libs.
So this leaves just one option: abandon the RPi 2/3 optimization and produce a generic image that will run on every RPi.
Unfortunately I have no time to maintain 2 images or 2 versions of QLC+ and Qt for the RPi.
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