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Hey guys, I have an ac dimmer hooked up using this guys website: 

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,22512.45.html

From that i created this patch to hook it up to the kinect through max.

It works fine when i hook up one light bulb but as soon as both get hooked up the delay is extremely significant. About a whole second before it starts dimming between message reads. I am not sure what is the problem. Is it because the serial port cant handle that many messages going into is at once? Or is the arduino mega not powerful enough? i am eventually trying to have 8 or so channels hooked up so with just two I am stuck and this is derailing me at this point. If you have any help please let me know, any questions i can answer as well.

Hey guys, I have an ac dimmer hooked up using this guys website: http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,22512.45.html

From that i created this patch to hook it up to the kinect through max. 

It works fine when i hook up one light bulb but as soon as both get hooked up the delay is extremely significant. About a whole second before it starts dimming between message reads. I am not sure what is the problem. Is it because the serial port cant handle that many messages going into is at once? Or is the arduino mega not powerful enough? i am eventually trying to have 8 or so channels hooked up so with just two I am stuck and this is derailing me at this point. If you have any help please let me know, any questions i can answer as well.


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first question would be: Do you turn on all the qmetros in this patch? Because that would cause you to send at the very least one message every 5 ms, that's 200/second, and that's before your real data goes in there, which I'm assuming is about 30/second.

Here's my slight rejigger of your patch - do please clean up your work a bit when seeking help, it'll make it a lot more readable for us, and we can help you even better :)

Here's my slight rejigger of your patch  - do please clean up your work a bit when seeking help, it'll make it a lot more readable for us, and we can help you even better :)

sorry for the messy data, so the change object is a good addition, the problem with ending it with a trigger before heading to the serial port is the arduino will spit out a code unkown if the two messages collide at the same time. So what i have now done is set up a gate with ANOTHER metro (metro happy i know...) and have it switch rapidly between the two messages. So with that it actually worked, I also ended up raising the FPS on the kinect to about 40. So now where I am stuck is I need to include a third (up to 8 eventually) to have the gate switch between. Obviously the gate cant do this... so I am trying to think of a solution, maybe switch? It just comes down to 8 channels need to fire into the serial without actually bumping into each other. It seems the more messages isnt the problem its just having them all go in without colliding and messing up the code. any solutions would be great! updated code posted below without the clutter this time! :)

Multiple AC Dimmer