SYNOPSIS

olad [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

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

Path to the config directory. Defaults to ~/.ola

-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

-l, --log-level <int8_t>

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

-p, --http-port <uint16_t>

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.

--pid-location <string>

The directory containing the PID definitions

--syslog

Send to syslog rather than stderr.

--no-register-with-dns-sd

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

--no-use-epoll

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

--no-use-kqueue

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

--no-use-async-libusb

Disable the use of the asyncronous libusb calls, revert to syncronous

--scheduler-policy <policy>

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

--scheduler-priority <priority>

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

LOGGING

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.