It would be great if there was Linux support for GLM. It's quite annoying to have to boot a virtual machine just to use it. Since you support Mac, Linux support shouldn't be hard to add at all. I would expect a product of this caliber to already support it.
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Hi Glen! We're already discussing about it internally. Thanks for sharing the feedback. All the best!
That's great news! I will eagerly await it's launch.
Internal discussions until the possible launch can take some time ... ;-)
That would be awsome !
Hi, this would be a great addition indeed! We were quite disappointed to find out Linux support of any kind is not available.
Hello
What is the status?
Eagerly awaiting this as well.
Ah, it would be great indeed! My studio runs on Linux only, and the only reason for my separate Windows machine is the GLM for calibration... Would be nice to finally retire it.
Now that Windows 10 support is coming to a close, Linux support for GLM is even more relevant! Windows version might run on Wine (I haven't tested, and I would like to avoid running things on Wine), but I cannot wait for the possibility to making custom launchers/buttons on Linux for On/Off and monitor's status LED! Simple things, but would be so nice... On top of the calibration obviously!
Even an experimental version would be better than nothing. If you @Genelec need beta testers, sign me in! ;)
Thanks for the greatest speakers tho! Love from Turku,
NL
Hi,
Any news on Linux support ?
Running GLM on either Raspberry Pi or Rock boards and connect to it with phone would allow switching between factory mode and stored mode with phone which is my target.
Current challenge is the following:
- systems where you have non SAM / Analog speakers it is recommended to use factory settings
- in my case I have 7.4.1 system with 3.1 Genelec SAM speakers, It will take a while before my system will be 100% Genelec
- In these mixed setups you likely have main speakers + sub already genelec
- To listen stereo you'd like to use GLM genereted settings (and disable amp calibrations)
- at least in my case both Audyssey and Dirac live corrections were not as good as Genelec
- to listen anything else you'd like to use AMP calibrations and Genelecs in factory settings
- this means that you need to use GLM to switch modes when ever needed, not very convinient
- alternatively frlip the dip switch on all speakers between 'stored' / 'not stored' mode when ever switching modes. not very practical
Thanks in advance
Teemu
Hi Teemu! I absolutely see the challenges in these types of systems. And we're happy to hear that you prefer our own calibration with GLM. Unfortunately, there are still no news about Linux support. Greetings!
Hi,
Lack of Linux support is really annoying indeed.
GLM does not work with Wine.
For now I use a macOS VM, only for calibration and it works great.
Maybe a multi-platform docker build can be a solution. This shouldn't be difficult and very easy to use, even with small pc/server (proxmox, truenas, etc..).
There is also this try :
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/python-module-to-manage-genelec-sam.25814/
I understand that the GLM team has other priorities and limited resources, but minimal support in a first time really shouldn't require too much energy.
I also find that GLM calibration is better than dirac live by the way (Y), great job.
I'll also just add my voice to the people requesting Linux support. I put together a new PC yesterday and the only reason that I remained on Windows was for GLM compatibility.
Microsoft has really been dropping the ball of late. It feels ideal not to be wedded to them in the long term (I know that GLM is also compatible with Mac but that would not apply to non-Apple hardware).
GLM 4.2 runs under Wine just fine. The latest version, GLM 5.2, might work OK, but the UI is practically unusable since the text fields do not render correctly (actually, I haven't tried it with the latest Wine version...🤔).
The GLM adapter needs proper permissions for the GLM software to access it.
On my Linux distribution (Fedora), I had to create a file at /etc/udev/rules.d/99-genelec-hid.rules, which contains the following line:
After that, reboot your system or use udevadm to reload the rules. Everything should work just fine afterward.
Linux distributions might have slightly different methods for defining udev rules, so you may need to search for specific instructions if this doesn't work for you.
Additionally, if you do some googling, you will find that people have done some interesting things with GLM after reverse engineering bits of it.😁 I hope that Genelec could open-source at least some of the software or the protocol that GLM uses. They might be surprised by what happens when the community can contribute. 😄
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