Announced from PLASA.
For the second consecutive year the Open Lighting Project has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code program. This provides one college student with the opportunity to write open source lighting control software for three months over summer while collecting a paycheck.
The Open Lighting Project is a multi-faceted effort aimed at accelerating the adoption of new, standardized lighting control protocols, while also providing high-quality, reliable, open source software for the lighting industry. Now with over 120,000 lines of code, recent activity on the project has focused on building one of the first implementations of RDMnet (BSR E1.33 - 201x, Entertainment Technology - [RDMnet] -- Message Transport and Device Management of ANSI E1.20 [RDM] over IP Networks).
The Open Lighting Project is seeking a talented software programmer who also has an interest in the entertainment lighting industry. For further information, and to apply visit the URL below.
Applications close May 3, 2013.
Open Lighting Project - Homepage
The Open Lighting Project
The Open Lighting Project was started in 2004 as a college honors project. The flagship product, OLA (Open Lighting Architecture: Open Lighting Architecture - OpenDMX.net) now supports 5 DMX-over-IP protocols. This was initially done by reverse engineering but recently some manufacturers have released the specifications of their proprietary protocols. OLA enables end users to use lighting equipment from different manufacturers on an IP network, freeing customers from vendor lock in.
OLA now supports 21 USB to DMX512 adaptors, allowing users to distribute the DMX control information over IP and then convert to traditional DMX512 for legacy devices. OLA also supports ANSI E1.31 (2009), the new standard for DMX over IP.
In 2010 we began work on RDM (Remote Device Management: RDM (lighting) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ), a relatively new standard published by ANSI in 2006 which, for the first time, enables bi-directional control of lighting devices. This means that rather than relying on visual inspections, lighting operators can be notified when abnormal conditions such as over heating occur with the lighting devices. RDM is starting to see significant uptake within the industry.
In early 2011 we released the Automated RDM Responder Tests (RDM Responder Testing - OpenDMX.net), a collection of test cases which can be used to evaluate the quality of RDM enabled lighting hardware. As part of the Summer of Code 2012 our student built a web frontend to the RDM tests which combined with the Raspberry Pi platform brought the RDM testing platform to even more users.
