Luminair

After 10+ years, I’m still rocking the Apple Airport and ENTTEC ODE combo with the latest incarnation of Luminair, and it continues to be perfectly serviceable for the location broadcast television presentation studios that I light across Europe and beyond. I’ll run a lighting package of around twenty fixtures plus set LED and Luminair works just fine. Definitely more refined apps have come along, subsequently (Blackout), but Luminair is still swinging

I use this app to control 6 moving heads, 3 battens, and 3 pars for my function band. I trigger them all via a MIDI foot switch so I can play and control lights and I’ve been doing this for 3 seasons now without any issues. This is by far the best solution I have found on the market for this level of control and creativity. I am no a lighting engineer by trade (strictly audio!!) but I made sense of it and it’s advanced features. I would love the engineers of this app to expand upon its functionality and position it more towards lighting control for bands and venues. The ability for advanced chases on my battens would be amazing - I currently have to apply animations to each RGB led which is time consuming. The price is what it is - still cheaper than a decent, recallable controller and much, much more portable!

Bought the perpetual license on the basis that you buy a working product. This product now is riddled with security issues and has a regular tendency to change settings in the middle of some of my events. Livid that the broadcast setting keeps changing rendering everything off. I am now faced with either joining their expensive subscription or resetting the app every 30mins hoping it will not change the broadcast setting.

Just wanted to say after many years of using this app, it has been extremely useful at my level easy to use and works as it should. The updates come along seem to help things along. I looked on now everything works perfectly

Latest updates to subscription based future is disappointing. Spending full price couple years ago to now hit a paywall. App now crashing and projects created on previous version no longer working. No longer useable

Manual, manual, manual! The manual is terrible - very general instructions, missing basic and complex information. If you see an app as an enigma code to be cracked, this is for you. If not, shop around. A shame because the functionality is decent, but it’s a hard to know if issues I am coming up against are quirks not covered in the manual. Given this is now a subscription model that’s inexcusable.

I bought this (full price, about 80 quid) a few years back to control our kitchen lights via DMX. LED strips and a few up lights. It has been great, but NO upgrades. All apps have moved on and include things like multi-universe and pixel control. This all hasn’t moved at all. Now we have the pro version that allows multi universe, but the subscription model changes to monthly rather than a single payment. It’s now ridiculously expensive (twice the price) to control home lights especially if you use (like most now do) pixel (WS2812 or similar) LEDs. Will keep the app v3 and make sure the friends I have recommended to use this all know what’s happened so they don’t also feel ripped off. Moving elsewhere and recommend potential purchasers know exactly what they are buying and don’t expect a further upgrade path.

I just keep find ways to do something that is actually quite easy. This is an app that a non- desk op can use and do some cool stuff.

Basically it’s a good app. But needs a lot of changes and fixes to workflow to make it a great app. For the money I’d expect lots of updates. But there’s been none.

This app in my opinion isn’t worth the money, it’s not bad but does little more than any of the free DMX apps out there, and there’s little or no exact info available to make you decide if this app is going to suite the users exact requirements, I wouldn’t have purchased it if I’d have tried a demo so there goes £99 down the drain.