OSC - Open Sound Control
Configure the Open Sound Control (OSC) server to enable external control of DMXDesktop.
Interface: Select the network interface/IP address to listen on.
Port: Set the listening port (default: 8000).
Protocol: Choose between UDP (default) or TCP.
Click Enable to activate the OSC server, then Save to apply your settings.
Note: If you enable Ableton Link, OS2L or Live Audio Input, and send simultaneous BPM Commands to OSC there may be conflicts.
This is a Subscriber only feature.
Mobile Control
Enable the HTTP Server to allow Mobile Control. This lets you control DMXDesktop remotely from your mobile or tablet device.
When enabled, the status will show as Active with a link to access the mobile control interface (e.g., dmxdesktop.local:80).
Click Show all addresses to see all available network addresses you can use to connect.
Please note you must be on the same local network for this to work.
For more details see: Mobile Control
Interface Options
Display Settings:
- Show Footer: Toggle the global footer at the bottom of the app.
- Pro Mode: Full interface with all features. Simple Mode is beginner-friendly.
- Show Scrollbar: Toggle scrollbar visibility.
System Tray:
- Minimize to tray on close: Keep DMXDesktop running in the background when you close the window.
- Hide from dock/taskbar: Hide the app icon from your dock or taskbar.
- Start minimized to tray: Launch DMXDesktop minimized to the system tray.
Appearance
Theme Selection: Choose between the classic DMXDesk interface or the enhanced Funky Theme with vibrant colors and enhanced animations. Theme changes are applied immediately.
Display Zooming: Adjust the zoom level of the display to make it fit better on your screen. The default is 100%.
Shortcut: Ctrl + '+'/'-' to zoom, Ctrl + '0' to reset.
Security & Diagnostics
Lockscreen Password: Set a password to lock the screen. This is useful if you need to leave your machine running in a public location but do not want anyone to interfere with the running software. Lock the screen by pressing Ctrl+L or clicking the Lock icon in the toolbar.
If you haven't set a password, the default password is DMX.
Note: Passwords are case sensitive.
CAUTION - If you forget the password you will lock yourself out!
Send Diagnostics: If you have been asked to submit diagnostics to DMXDesktop support, you can do so here by clicking Submit Diagnostics.
Note: All diagnostic data is automatically deleted after 30 days.
Notifications
The Notifications setting in Settings, General decides how chatty the app is. There are four levels:
- Everything: every message, including the confirmations that say something finished.
- Hide confirmations: drops the "done" messages and keeps the rest.
- Warnings and errors only.
- Errors only.
Errors are never hidden, whichever level you choose, so you cannot accidentally set this in a way that makes you miss a real failure mid-show.
Tooltips and Explain Mode
The Tooltips control in Settings, Appearance sets how long a tooltip waits before it appears: Instant, Short, Medium, Long or Off. Slow them down if they get in your way, or turn them off entirely once you know your way around.
Explain mode is a sixth setting on the same control, and it is the one chosen by default on a new installation. It swaps the short tooltip labels for full descriptions, and gives each side menu entry a description of its own, so a first look round the app explains itself rather than needing to be explored. Turning it off leaves you with the ordinary short tooltips.
This is deliberately not a guided tour. A tour is a list of steps pointing at controls from the outside, so it breaks quietly every time something moves, whereas an explanation attached to a control travels with it.
Tooltips also behave better than they did. One no longer appears seconds later on top of the panel or dialog your click had just opened, only one can be shown at a time, and any click dismisses it.
Window Behavior and About
The main window now remembers its position, its size and whether it was maximized, between sessions, as the other windows already did. The "display sleep" messages that appeared every time it was maximized or restored are gone.
The About window has a Copy button that puts the version and the build number on the clipboard together. That pair is what actually identifies a build, so it is the thing to paste when you report a problem or raise a support ticket.
