Greetings All,
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After an extended late-night dive into the group archive, I can't seem to find a final word on whether the JMRI DMX-via-USB support (whether Anyma or Powerline) works when using Java for ARM on Apple Silicon Macs (M1-M4 processors). There are a couple of 2022 threads that mention that it was broken, but the only possible response I found in the code was a commit for release 5.3.3 that appeared to be a minor change for some component of DMX support. It didn't look like a smoking gun, but looks can be deceiving.
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I'm asking because my 2020 Intel iMac will likely need to get replaced with a M4 (or later) unit sometime between now and when my layout is getting built. I can certainly buy a USB-to-DMX dongle, a decoder, some lights, and play around with it, but that won't be a true acid test since I'm still back in Intel land.
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The ultimate goal is to have the layout lighting run in two modes:
- Maintenance mode - All lighting turned on, with RGBWW strips at full WW.?
- Operations mode - All lighting and color reacts to the time of day, based on the fast clock time.
My assumption (at the moment) is that this functionality would likely require either a LogixNG or Python/Jython script that listens to the "maintenance mode" memory value and the fast clock value.
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Thanks in advance.
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Paul
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Paul Anderson