Every lighting manufacturer ships PDFs.
Every lighting software rebuilds fixture profiles manually.
Every technician copies channel mappings again and again.
And somehow this is still normal.
So I started building an AI-powered OpenDMX skill for XvX Systems.
The idea:
• Upload fixture manuals
• OCR + parse DMX tables
• Extract channel mappings automatically
• Store fixture knowledge centrally
• Build an open ecosystem for lighting infrastructure
The goal is not another closed lighting software.
The goal is open infrastructure.
Linux-native.
AI-assisted.
Community-maintained.
Current prototype:
https://xvx-systems.de/skills/dmxcontrol?lang=en
Future plans:
• OLA integration
• ArtNet support
• AI-assisted fixture setup
• Web-based patching
• Open fixture database
• Club automation
Lighting infrastructure should behave more like open software ecosystems — not isolated vendor islands.