OLA Python API

Building the Python Bindings

See Building LLA but run ./configure --enable-python-libs

Note that you have to install Swig in order to build the python bindings (sudo apt-get install swig)

There is also a forgotten data in lla/python/Makefile : you have to add -I../include to the value of DEFAULT_INCLUDES at the line 70.

At the end of the installation, you should run ldconfig as root in order to use the python bindings.

Interesting Classes

LlaClient

the main connection class

dmxBuffer

represents a list of DMX channel values

LlaClientObserver

base class to handle events

LlaPlugin

represents a Plugin

LlaDevice

represents a Device

Sending DMX

A simple example to send DMX:

from lla import *
import sys

con = LlaClient()
if con.start():
  sys.exit()

universe = 0

# create a dmxBuffer for the channel values
DMX_LEN = 512
dmx = dmxBuffer(DMX_LEN)
for i in range(0, DMX_LEN):
  dmx[i] = i

con.send_dmx(universe, dmx, DMX_LEN)

Receiving DMX

Receiving is slightly harder, we need to setup an Observer object to handle the events:

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from lla import *
import sys

class Observer(LlaClientObserver):
  """ Handle the events """
  def new_dmx(self, uni, length, data):
    """ Called with new dmx buffer """
    return 0


# create a new LlaClient
con = LlaClient()

# create an observer object and register
ob = Observer()
con.set_observer(ob)

if con.start():
  sys.exit()

con.register_uni(1, LlaClient.REGISTER)

while True:
  con.fd_action(1)