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I just started to learn Ableton Live and Max. I have to send OSC to Ableton Live from Unity3D. After searching how to make Live receive OSC, I downloaded Livegrabber 3.3 and wanted to give it a try.

The manual says: "You will notice that the zip contains java class and jar files. For now, these class files

always have to be in the same folder as the plugins. They are needed for the automatic

OSC device detection. Unfortunately class and jar files can’t be properly frozen into the

device files yet, Cycling ’74 is still working on that." ( 

http://showsync.info/livegrabber/Livegrabber-3.3-manual.pdf

This confused me. After googling I still don't know where to place the files extracted from the zip (GrabberReceiver.amxd, OscService.class and osc.jar .etc).

When I drag and drop any of the .amxd files into Live, it says: Java not found on this system. (As the attached picture shows)

Hello,
I just started to learn Ableton Live and Max. I have to send OSC to Ableton Live from Unity3D. After searching how to make Live receive OSC, I downloaded Livegrabber 3.3 and wanted to give it a try.
The manual says: "You will notice that the zip contains java class and jar files. For now, these class files
always have to be in the same folder as the plugins. They are needed for the automatic
OSC device detection. Unfortunately class and jar files can’t be properly frozen into the
device files yet, Cycling ’74 is still working on that." ( http://showsync.info/livegrabber/Livegrabber-3.3-manual.pdf )
This confused me.  After googling I still don't know where to place the files extracted from the zip (GrabberReceiver.amxd, OscService.class and osc.jar .etc).
When I drag and drop any of the .amxd files into Live,  it says: Java not found on this system. (As the attached picture shows)
Thanks a lot!


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I was having the same issue and found the solution using the advice by alee.canosa here: 

https://forum.showsync.info/t/livegrabber-windows-10-support/45

It was actually very simple. I didn't have java installed in the correct way for LiveGrabber to work.

EDIT: After attempting this again on a new computer, I ran into another problem. When I used a GrabberReceiver, I got errors related to not having the right Java classes. By following the instructions from this link, I was able to get it all working again: 

https://forum.showsync.info/t/livegrabber-v3-3-3-java-lang-classnotfoundexception-fix-for-grabberreceiver/61/4.

The corresponding Windows folder is C:\Program Files\Cycling '74\Max 7\resources\packages\max-mxj. I placed the class files in the "classes" folder and the osc executable jar file in the "lib" folder.

I was having the same issue and found the solution using the advice by alee.canosa here: https://forum.showsync.info/t/livegrabber-windows-10-support/45 

It was actually very simple. I didn't have java installed in the correct way for LiveGrabber to work.    

David, I had some Java/Win10 problems too, and they were fixed by  installing manually and offiline both x86 and x64 updates of JRE (thoug  I'm using the 64bit OS)
Here's the link http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp12
I hope it helps!


EDIT: After attempting this again on a new computer, I ran into another problem. When I used a GrabberReceiver, I got errors related to not having the right Java classes. By following the instructions from this link, I was able to get it all working again: https://forum.showsync.info/t/livegrabber-v3-3-3-java-lang-classnotfoundexception-fix-for-grabberreceiver/61/4.

For anyone else who comes across this error in the Max console when attempting to use Grabber Receiver, I resolved the issue by copying all of the Livegrabber .jar and .class files to: /Applications/Max.app/Contents/Resources/C74/packages/max-mxj/java-classes

I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to Java (and Max kinda) so not sure if this is a bug or not or whether or not my fix is a poor workaround or a good solution. Is there a better way to solve this problem?

I tested and was getting this error in live 9.1 and live 9.6 both 32 and 64bit using both Max 6.1 and 7.2 both 32 and 64bit versions.

Follow up. It looks like that class is related to Bonjour so I downloaded and installed Bonjour for Windows: https://support.apple.com/downloads/Bonjour_for_Windows10

By applying bforest's fix and installing Bonjour for Windows GrabberReceiver is now working for me.

It would be awesome if you could add some code that checks for the presence of Bonjour or some how makes it optional. However if that's not possible I think you will probably want to put these steps into the README.txt or somehow make them more obvious.

So glad to have this finally working. Thank you by the way for the LiveGrabber tools, this is the only thing I've found that let's me do the OSC interaction with Ableton Live that I've wanted to do.

Cheers

How to deal with the Livegrabber java files to start using Livegrabber?