pyartnet

PyArtNet is a python implementation of the ArtNet protocol using asyncio. Supported protocols are ArtNet, sACN and KiNet.

Docs

Docs and examples can be found here

Changelog

2.0 (2025-11-04)

• Breaking change: Nodes now need to be run through an async context manager, e.g.:

  async with ArtNetNode.create('IP') as node:
      ...
  

• Added support for transmitting multiple universes in sync
• Added support for transmitting SACN through the broadcast address
• ruff and typing fixes
• used UV

1.0.1 (2023-02-20)

• Fixed an issue where consecutive fades would not start from the correct value
• renamed channel.add_fade to channel.set_fade (channel.add_fade will issue a DeprecationWarning)

1.0.0 (2023-02-08)

• Complete rework of library (breaking change)
• Add support for sACN and KiNet

0.8.4 (2022-07-13)

• Added linear fade (closes #14)
• Updated max FPS (closes #17)
• All raised Errors inherit now from PyArtNetError
• Some refactoring and cleanup
• Activated tests for Python 3.10

0.8.3 (2021-07-23)

• No more jumping fades when using output correction with bigger channels
• Reformatted files

0.8.2 (2021-03-14)

• Using nonblocking sockets
• Added option to send frames to a broadcast address

0.8.1 (2021-02-26)

• Fixed an issue with the max value for channels with 16bits and more

0.8.0 (2021-02-11)

• Added support for channels with 16, 24 and 32bits

0.7.0 (2020-10-28)

• renamed logger to pyartnet to make it consistent with the module name
• callbacks on the channel now get the channel passed in as an argument
• Adding the same channel multiple times or adding overlapping channels raises an exception
• Added pyartnet.errors
• optimized logging of sent frames

0.6.0 (2020-10-27)

• ArtnetNode.start is now an async function
• ArtnetNode.step_time_ms renamed to ArtnetNode.step_time (shouldn't be used manually anyway)
• removed support for python 3.6
• added more and better type hints
• switched to pytest
• small fixes

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