Tour & layout

The web config app is the full control surface. It does everything the OLED does, plus the things it can’t: pattern design with a live visualizer, sensors, elements and chains, file management, AI patterns.

Two ways to open it

http://omna.local (or the device IP) is the device serving its own UI. It works fully offline. With several devices on the network, omna.local shows a lobby to pick from; reach a specific unit directly at its omna-<id>.local name — see Getting on the network.

app.omnadmx.ca is the same UI hosted in the cloud; it then connects to a device you point it at. Use it on networks without mDNS, or to drive a device from somewhere else. The interface is identical — only the delivery differs. (AI generation needs internet either way.) If the cloud app and the device’s firmware ever disagree on API version, the app automatically falls back to the device’s own embedded UI, so a stale cloud deploy can’t misconfigure a device.

The tabs

Which tabs appear depends on the firmware build; disabled features are hidden. What you’d reach for each one for:

• Pattern — the pattern: engine, texture, the shape parameters, motion, palette, with a live device-locked visualizer. Most design time goes here. See Pattern engine & motion.
• Strips — declare each physical strip: length, colour order, and (for network output) universe mapping. You set this at install or after a re-wire.
• Slices / Elements — divide strips into slices and group them into elements and chains. This is where patterns play, and the DMX patch order. See Elements, slices & chains.
• Sensors — add I2C sensors and wire them to the pattern with routes and reactions. See Sensors & reactions.
• DMX — pick the input source (DMX512, Art-Net, sACN), choose a fixture profile, watch a live desk snapshot. See the DMX track.
• Network / Zone — WiFi and saved networks, the names this device answers to, fleet discovery and identify, zone sync.
• Files — save, load, rename, delete named configs and patterns (your slots, plus read-only factory presets).
• System — status, health, logs, and output type (Direct, Art-Net, or sACN out).
• AI — generate or alter patterns from a description. See AI pattern generation.

How edits apply and persist

You’re editing the device’s one active configuration. Most controls apply live, and on the Pattern tab the LEDs and the on-page visualizer move together as you drag. The active config saves itself and comes back on reboot. Files is for explicit named snapshots, separate from that always-on autosave.

Tip

A reasonable first pass: declare hardware in Strips, decide where patterns play in Slices / Elements, design the pattern in Pattern, then save it from Files.