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From: John J Foerch <jjfoerch@earthlink.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ola.
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:14:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r39gsjiv.fsf@hecubus.retroj.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87oa505q4e.fsf@hecubus.retroj.net

John J Foerch <jjfoerch@earthlink.net> writes:

> rennes@openmailbox.org writes:
>
>> John,
>>
>>> Thank you so much for doing this.  If 'make check' succeeds, those are
>>> the main tests, but to check installation, I would look for the
>>> following programs being installed:
>>>
>>>     ola                   ola_e131        ola_plugin_state   ola_rdm_set
>>>     ola_set_priority      ola_trigger     ola_uni_name       ola_artnet
>>>     ola_dmxconsole        ola_patch       ola_rdm_discover
>>> ola_recorder
>>>     ola_streaming_client  ola_uni_info    ola_uni_stats      olad
>>>     ola_dmxmonitor        ola_plugin_info ola_rdm_get        ola_set_dmx
>>>     ola_timecode          ola_uni_merge   ola_usbpro
>>> ola_dev_info
>>>
>>
>> I see only the following programs:
>>
>> ola_artnet            ola_plugin_state      ola_set_priority
>> ola_uni_name
>> olad                  ola_rdm_discover      ola_streaming_client
>> ola_uni_stats
>> ola_dev_info          ola_rdm_get           ola_timecode
>> ola_usbpro
>> ola_e131              ola_rdm_set           ola_trigger
>> ola_patch             ola_recorder          ola_uni_info
>> ola_plugin_info       ola_set_dmx           ola_uni_merge
>>
>
> That seems fine.  I don't know what every single one of them does, but
> all of the main ones are present.
>
>>
>>> These are the programs installed by the Debian ola package, and I don't
>>> know what packaging options might have affected which were installed,
>>> but the list should be more or less the same.
>>>
>>> To start the ola daemon and generate a config:
>>>
>>>     olad -c ~/my-ola
>>
>> when the command is run, it displays message:
>>
>> $ olad -c ~/my-ola
>>
>> common/io/IOUtils.cpp:39: open(/dev/dmx0): No such file or directory
>> plugins/opendmx/OpenDmxPlugin.cpp:80: Could not open /dev/dmx0 No such
>> file or directory
>> common/network/IPV4Address.cpp:89: Could not convert address 677966233
>> common/io/IOUtils.cpp:39: open(/dev/kldmx0): No such file or directory
>> plugins/karate/KaratePlugin.cpp:79: Could not open /dev/kldmx0 No such
>> file or directory
>>
>
> The ones complaining about missing /dev entries are nothing to worry
> about - those are plugins just looking for hardware that isn't there.
> They can be disabled in files in ~/my-ola, but by default, it will
> search for every kind of device.
>
> The one that I don't know the meaning of is the IPV4Address.cpp:89
> error.  I will ask about that.
>
>>
>>
>>> This should start a web service on port 9090, so you can point a web
>>> browser to localhost:9090 and see if anything comes up.
>>
>> the service is not responding. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> According to this page, http support is an optional build option.  I
> wasn't aware of that, but it would be convenient to enable.
>
>   https://www.openlighting.org/ola/getting-started/using-ola/#How_to_setup_an_interface
>
> To enable it, it needs libmicrohttpd.  It looks like guix has a package
> for that - nice!
>
> Thank you,
>
> --
> John Foerch

I found this to solve the memory issue, so I can build the package now:
https://github.com/OpenLightingProject/ola/issues/1103

Thank you for your help.  I am now working on some other issues with the
package and hope to post a patch soon.

--
John Foerch

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-22 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.11647.1470832050.26855.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2016-08-10 14:05 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add ola rennes
2016-08-10 20:24   ` John J Foerch
2016-08-22 19:14     ` John J Foerch [this message]
2016-08-24  2:03       ` John J Foerch
2016-08-25 23:55 John J Foerch
2016-08-26  2:08 ` Alex Vong
2016-08-26 11:47   ` Marius Bakke
2016-08-28 20:01     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-29 14:48       ` John J Foerch
2016-09-01 12:47         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-02 17:56           ` John J Foerch
2016-09-05  8:54             ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-26 12:10   ` John J Foerch
     [not found] <mailman.10291.1470243841.26857.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2016-08-04  3:26 ` rennes
2016-08-10 11:57   ` John J Foerch

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