The most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project have not changed much so far. More specifically, the first biggest risk is not being able to properly compile and run code for controlling our light fixture automatically through our control program, which would use Flask, Python, and the Open Light Architecture framework to transmit DMX signals to the lighting system. Our concerns are due to comments given on other people’s projects attempting to control lights using the DMX protocol that the OLA framework is a little finicky and difficult to bootstrap, even though after initial setup progress should be smooth and predictable. To mitigate this risk we will be testing our setup before committing completely to OLA. Secondly, another major risk would be not being able to maintain and reason about the different websockets our Users would connect to our DJ system through, as maintaining this live User network is a big part of our use-case. We are mitigating this risk by building these modules early. Finally, the last major concern would be making good persistent programs that thread well on the RPi’s without crashing, as we want our DJ to have near 100% uptime, as we consider even a brief stop in the music playing a fatal error. We can mitigate this risk by researching more into robust microservice programming.
As we just recently gave the Design Presentation, within that presentation was our most up-to-date system design, and there were no changes made to our system design after that.
