olad1

Usage

Overview

olad is the Open Lighting Architecture (OLA) daemon. It handles communication with DMX512 / RDM hardware devices and remote network hosts via various lighting control protocols.

Options

-c, --config-dir <string>

The path to the config directory, defaults to ~/.ola/ on *nix and %LOCALAPPDATA%.ola on Windows.

-d, --http-data-dir <string>

The path to the static www content.

-f, --daemon

Fork and run as a background process.

-h, --help

Display the help message

-i, --interface <string>

The interface name (e.g. eth0) or IP address of the network interface to use for the web server.

-l, --log-level <int8_t>

Set the logging level 0 .. 4. See LOGGING.

-p, --http-port <uint16_t>

The port to run the HTTP server on. Defaults to 9090.

-r, --rpc-port <uint16_t>

The port to listen for RPCs on. Defaults to 9010.

-v, --version

Print olad version information

--no-http

Disable the HTTP server.

--no-http-quit

Disable the HTTP /quit handler.

--no-register-with-dns-sd

Don't register the web service using DNS-SD (Bonjour).

--no-use-async-libusb

Disable the use of the asynchronous libusb calls, revert to synchronous

--no-use-epoll

Disable the use of epoll(), revert to select()

--no-use-kqueue

Disable the use of kqueue(), revert to select()

--pid-location <string>

The directory containing the PID definitions.

--scheduler-policy <policy>

The thread scheduling policy, one of {fifo, rr}.

--scheduler-priority <priority>

The thread priority, only used if --scheduler-policy is set.

--syslog

Send to syslog rather than stderr.

Logging

olad can either log to stderr(4) or syslog(5). Each log level includes those of higher severity.

Signals

Once running, the following signals control the behavior of olad: