Q Light Controller+

Hi all,
New to this forum. Amazing software the QLC+
I am playing around with a Raspberry Pi 4 and trying to output dmx data on GPIO lines and also UART TX line.
It seems I don't get anything out according to my scope.
Should I need to do more than just selecting the output settings in the input/output tab in order to get the data going?
Thanks in advance!

Hi, not every GPIO on the Pi is the same.
Many pins have different meanings and their configuration is done outside QLC+.

As for UART, it should work out of the box.

See also this for reference: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8894

Ah thanks, by looking at the ref page it seems I have to edit the config file to change direction of TX.. probably that’s the issue.

BTW - is there a way to edit the Pi config’s inside Pi or do I have to edit the image and write it all back to SD ?

You can access the Pi via SSH, as written in the provided PDF

I think SSH will be more advanced than my hardware brain can take
It's possible to edit the QLC+ image in Windows and then write it back to SD? (Format and write)

I was not able to get UART TX to output DMX. I tried to find where to paste the below:
echo 18 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio18/direction
echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio18/value

But I could not find the file you were referring to: /etc/init.d/qlcplus file

Can you please explain where to edit and get the UART TX output enabled ?
Thanks

Windows doesn't read Linux partitions (ext2/3/4 format)
You need a proper tool for that like
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/
or
https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

OK
So when using the suggested linux apps I can open the SD card in a PC and edit the needed files ?