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Lux

A desktop app for driving DMX stage lighting, built as a native Tauri app: a Rust core that talks to the hardware and a Next.js + shadcn/ui front end to drive it. Lux controls an Enttec OpenDMX USB interface two ways — directly from the desktop UI, and remotely from a Discord bot over AWS IoT.

The Rust side keeps a DMX channel buffer continuously synced to the hardware (apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/{buffer,channels,sync}.rs) behind a device abstraction (apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/devices/); the UI talks to it over tauri-typed-ipc — a type-safe IPC crate I wrote — so the Rust↔TypeScript command layer is type-safe end to end.

Demo

Lux driving an RGBAW fixture over an Enttec OpenDMX USB interface

Setting fixture color live from the desktop UI — the RGBAW tube and the Enttec OpenDMX USB interface (bottom) respond in real time.

Stack

Rust · Tauri 2 · tauri-typed-ipc (type-safe IPC) · Next.js 16 · React 19 · shadcn/ui · Tailwind v4 · Enttec OpenDMX USB (DMX512 over serial)

Run it

cd apps/desktop
bun run tauri dev

Features

  • ✅ Drives channels 1–6 of an Enttec OpenDMX USB (one RGBAW fixture)
  • ✅ Continuous DMX512 render/sync loop with correct break / mark-after-break framing
  • ✅ Remote control from Discord over AWS IoT
  • ✅ Type-safe Rust↔TS commands via tauri-typed-ipc

Screenshot

The lux control grid (v0.0.3)

About

RGBAW DMX lighting controller — drives an Enttec Open DMX USB or sACN/Art-Net network node (auto-detected). Built with Rust, Tauri, and shadcn/ui.

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