Flatsonar

Open Lighting Console

by Mika Cousin

Control your lighting shows

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v0.10.3.beta
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About

Open Lighting Console is a free software to control lights on theater shows.

Some features:

  • Used Art-Net, sACN and Enttec DMX USB PRO to send DMX
  • RPN syntax
  • Import / Export ASCII Light Cue shows
  • Patch / Unpatch by channels or by outputs
  • Main Playback
  • Chasers
  • Groups
  • Faders
  • Track channels
  • Virtual console with easy MIDI learning for controllers
  • Open Sound Control

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source (x6)
    source:prebuilt
  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.