NAME

       olad - The Open Lighting Architecture Daemon

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.

SIGNALS

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

       SIGUP  Reloads the plugins.

       SIGUSR1
              Increases the logging level, eventually wrapping

SEE ALSO

       ola_dmxconsole(1), ola_dmxmonitor(1),

                                            July 2013                                     olad(1)