Q Light Controller+

I'm trying to build my own fixture and I'm currently writing the firmware for it. The plan is that I want many of my own custom made fixtures all on the same subnet all listening to the same dmx universe.

I'm using ArtNET as the protocol, but the thing is I can only get QLC+ (v4.11.1) to talk directly to a specific IP. If I set the IP address to the broadcast IP (192.168.178.255) QLC+ doesn't send any packets. I'm using wireshark to capture, and I can see my laptop sends out the occasional broadcast UDP packet from other stuff, but nothing whatsoever from QLC+. I'm expecting to see a stream of ArtDMX packets, or maybe an ArtPoll discovery message being sent to 192.168.178.255, but there is nothing.

I see there is a new version of QLC+, 4.11.2, but I haven't tried this because I can't see anything relating to ArtNET in the release notes.

Any ideas how I can get my QLC+ broadcasting to 192.168.178.255?

I've attached a screenshot of my config.


Thanks, Ben

This is the code responsible for artnet: https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... roller.cpp

Ah thanks... I can see the code that is suppose to send out the ArtPoll packets every 5 seconds, but I can't see them in Wireshark.

I can see the packets here in linux (kubuntu 16.04, QLC+ built from git). What is your OS?
I can't test WIndows now.

What is your netmask? (/24?)

I was using windows, but actually I just tried it with my ubuntu and it works fine on that. So it seems to be specific to windows.

I guess I might have something in Windows Firewall blocking it or something.

Thanks

* To be 100% Artnet compliant your network settings should be in the 2.x.y.z range with mask 255.0.0.0
** you don't need to have 2 NIC's since you can bind multiple IP-addresses to one NIC
* Broadcasts are dealt with through the controller
* nodes will subscribe to the transmitting device (so i think output to 192.168.178.255 is faulty)
* port used on the streaming device = 0x1936 -> open in firewall
* Please verify Artnet spec's since

carnivalben wrote: ↑Fri Jun 01, 2018 4:56 pm The plan is that I want many of my own custom made fixtures all on the same subnet all listening to the same dmx universe.

is actually dealt with through MAC addressing - so your nodes have to have a MAC address owned by you and thereafter your nodes will have an Ip-address composed through the use of this MAC-address

Please do study http://artisticlicence.com/WebSiteMaste ... rt-net.pdf before making non compliant firmware - it would be a pity if your device(s) were not compliant...

carnivalben wrote: ↑Fri Jun 01, 2018 4:56 pm The plan is that I want many of my own custom made fixtures all on the same subnet all listening to the same dmx universe.

And again : listening to one universe is only part of the whole deal ... you will need an address inside an universe to listen to inside your nodes...

just saying

GGGss wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 12:45 pm * To be 100% Artnet compliant your network settings should be in the 2.x.y.z range with mask 255.0.0.0
** you don't need to have 2 NIC's since you can bind multiple IP-addresses to one NIC

Thanks... I didn't even think of binding 2 IPs to one NIC, although QLC+ works perfectly well on 192.168.178.x

GGGss wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 12:45 pm * Broadcasts are dealt with through the controller

The controller (QLC+) should be sending out broadcasts, but isn't, thats my problem! ...although it does running QLC+ on ubuntu.

GGGss wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 12:45 pm so your nodes have to have a MAC address owned by you and thereafter your nodes will have an Ip-address composed through the use of this MAC-address

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Please do study http://artisticlicence.com/WebSiteMaste ... rt-net.pdf before making non compliant firmware - it would be a pity if your device(s) were not compliant...

Yeah, I'm aware of this, but all this is for my own project. I certainly don't ever plan to release anything I make or sell anything commercially. And so because the fixtures I'm making won't ever leave my control I'm just using made up MAC addresses.

Thanks for the heads up though.