I have a fresh install of QLC+ on my raspberry. Now i had the Idea if it is possible to use the raspberrys gpio Pins to create a dmx Signal (diy Interface). has somebody an idea How to do this? Or is there a Function implemented in QLC+ That creates a Interface with the gpio Pins ?
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Elias
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lighthacker2020
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My guess is that you'll have better success tapping in to the pi's SPI bus vs. driving the gpios directly. I haven't seen anything in the app that would indicate sending output direct to gpios would be possible, however, I have seen posts in this forum about using the gpios assigned to the SPI bus use as an output, after doing a bit of configuration work for the pi. I believe there's even rpi and arduino hats available for this.
To use the gpio pins directly, you'd have to have a driver which is capable of outputting the DMX values over something with looks like RS485 signaling going through the gpio pins (3 required, ground, signal+ and signal-). I don't think QLC+ has that built in ... I didn't try to fight it, and just dropped the few buck to buy a USB DMX interface, which fit my budget
Although I was attracted to the hacker-y aspect of using something via gpio for a while
To use the gpio pins directly, you'd have to have a driver which is capable of outputting the DMX values over something with looks like RS485 signaling going through the gpio pins (3 required, ground, signal+ and signal-). I don't think QLC+ has that built in ... I didn't try to fight it, and just dropped the few buck to buy a USB DMX interface, which fit my budget
Although I was attracted to the hacker-y aspect of using something via gpio for a while-
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QLC+ on the raspberry pi has a native GPIO plugin but it's just to perform basic IO.
DMX using GPIOs is not supported and I suggest to use the RPi UART instead.
DMX using GPIOs is not supported and I suggest to use the RPi UART instead.
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pgScorpio
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DMX out using the hardware serial on rpi is available.
Also artnet and ola using this DMX out is available, so it should interface with qlc too.
As a starting point see https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to ... pberry-Pi/ for the basics and other links.
Never used it myself, but others did...
Also artnet and ola using this DMX out is available, so it should interface with qlc too.
As a starting point see https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to ... pberry-Pi/ for the basics and other links.
Never used it myself, but others did...
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