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olad(1) General Commands Manual olad(1)

olad - The Open Lighting Architecture Daemon

olad [options]

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.

The path to the config directory, defaults to ~/.ola/ on *nix and %LOCALAPPDATA%.ola on Windows.
The path to the static www content.
Fork and run as a background process.
Display the help message
The interface name (e.g. eth0) or IP address of the network interface to use for the web server.
Set the logging level 0 .. 4. See LOGGING.
The port to run the HTTP server on. Defaults to 9090.
The port to listen for RPCs on. Defaults to 9010.
Print olad version information
Disable the HTTP server.
Disable the HTTP /quit handler.
Don't register the web service using DNS-SD (Bonjour).
Disable the use of the asynchronous libusb calls, revert to synchronous
Disable the use of epoll(), revert to select()
Disable the use of kqueue(), revert to select()
The directory containing the PID definitions.
The thread scheduling policy, one of {fifo, rr}.
The thread priority, only used if --scheduler-policy is set.
Send to syslog rather than stderr.

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

0
No logging.
1
Fatal logging.
2
Warnings.
3
Informational logging.
4
Debug logging.

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

Reloads the plugins.
Increases the logging level, eventually wrapping

ola_dmxconsole(1), ola_dmxmonitor(1),

August 2018