You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the firmware, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation. If you are going to make money from using the interface, then you need a commercial license and must contact me. That is you may use it in education, charity or for private use (inc software development and testing). This version of the firmware is only licensed for non commercial use. This version adds a number of new commands, see the Building Forum for more details. James Uppington, (the author of the Windows firmware updater) has his own page about it here. If you are interested in writing one for a different O/S please email me. There is an OSX version, and a Windows version available.
This application checks which version of the firmware the USB DMX interface has installed (if any), and allows you to update it to a new version. HWInterface.* will be the main files of interest, as they implement the USB DMX Interface Protocol. Although its unlikley you will be able to compile it, you will be able to view it and hopefully use it help build your own software. This is a handy tool to verify the correct operation of your interface once you have built it.įor non apple users I have also posted the source as a gzipped tar file. It allows you to send commands to the interface and view the responses. This is the test application, and in fact my first GUI app, that I used whilst writing the firmware. So as not to make this a very long page I have created a new page specifialy for the preset desk application. Updated You are now able to customise the dimmer curve profile for each channel. Whilst starting learning about cocoa's Application Development Kit I have built a simple preset lighting desk application. I have set up a Wiki specifically for Chameleon where you can download the latest pre-release version, and read the on-line manual. The software is being written with the LightsOn lighting framework behind it. I am currently working on a fully featured lighting control application to run under Mac OSX. If you have written software please let me know and I will include a link. The Links section contains references to software that other people have written for the USB DMX interface. Home Schematic Building Protocol Software Ordering Forum LightsOn LinksĪs I write software I will post it here for download. Home of the opto isolated, bus powered, DMX512 interface with both in and out universes.
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