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This is like QLab [0], right? If so, it's fantastic to see an open-source solution pop up in this space. That was very fun software to play around in when I was using it for an immersive tabletop roleplaying game I ran. Is the goal to focus exclusively on lighting control, or will other types of effects (sounds, video, HTTP) be included eventually as well?

[0] https://qlab.app/

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If you have never used QLab, I recommend downloading it and tinkering for a little while. It is probably the best-designed native macOS app that I’ve ever come across, finely tuned by a handful of developers for something like 15 years. It’s a great reminder of what apps _could_ feel like.

This is more of a lighting controller while QLab is a show controller. These are typically viewed as different layers of the stack: a show control system controls the light control system.

I don't know much about BlindersKitten but the page says it can receive OSC. OSC was originally for sound applications but is common as a show control protocol today due to being fairly simple and open (much like MIDI-SC, a formerly common show control protocol based on MIDI). So conceptually OSC is likely how a show control system would send commands (cues) to BlindersKitten.

One such free OSC software you could use to control it (+ handle sound, video, etc as asked in GP) is https://ossia.io :) (transparency report: i'm the dev)

I'm not seeing any open source license in the repo, so this is more "public source" than open source. You can't modify and redistribute the code for eg.

Looks like a PR adding a GPL 3.0 license was just merged: https://github.com/norbertrostaing/BlinderKitten/pull/1

Looks like it might also be GPL violating, some of the external deps included in the repo are copyleft.

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