FTDI USB DMX device (Mac)

Processing Electronics (Arduino, etc.)
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I have a cheap ftdi usb to dmx device. I have it working with 3rd party software but I want to try with Processing. There is the OpenDMX library but it is windows only. Anyone know of a similar library for osx?

Or maybe how I can write my own library? Not sure how the communication protocol works over serial?
thanks

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just for anyone who might stumble on this post I ended up making a library for this: GitHub - jaysonh/Dmx4Artists: Processing library to use ftdi DMX device

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Is there any way to get your library to work on a Pi?

Would downloading qlc+ resolve the ftdi issue? I donated to qlc+ and am currently waiting for the download link… to test this out.

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Hi it’s not working on linux atm, but it shouldn’t be too hard for me to get it to work on the Pi. Give me a few days and i’ll try it.

What version of the Rapsberry Pi are you using btw?

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Hey! OK, good to know it’s not supported atm. But to have that support would be so rad.

I am currently running v11 bullseye - RPi, 64bit.

If I can help test or anything, let me know – more than happy to.

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Hi, I have it working on Ubuntu now so should run the RPI.

I only have a RPI zero W 32 bit with me. It’s horrendously slow running the PI OS GUI with Processing so it’s a bit painful to debug, but i’ll try again this week. Once I’ve confirmed it working there I can send you the files to test on 64 bit RPI.

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for anyone that uses this, i’ve updated the library for linux now, tested on ubuntu but should work elsewhere: GitHub - jaysonh/Dmx4Artists: Processing library to use ftdi DMX device

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Hey @bananana , awesome, thanks! I’ll take a run through it on a 64 bit RPI and test the recommended hard float version of the libftd2xx.so driver