Iain Duncan

Hi colleagues, wondering if anyone has worked with this before and might know what's up. I've made myself a remote console from Max by using the console object and sending the output out over OSC. My object chain is:

console -> tosymbol -> prepend /max -> udpsend 127.0.0.1 7778

Then I have a listener that I run in iTerm that I made using the pyliblo library to listen to OSC messages starting with /max. I run this in the terminal, and there is my log output. This is working really nicely except for one issue, and as I'm new to OSC, I haven't a clue where this it's coming from. *sometimes*.. the terminal display of the console output lags by several seconds, seemingly randomly (or maybe I haven't noticed why). I don't know if this is a Max thing and the message is going out late, or a Python thing and the thread isn't waking up, or an iterm thing and it's stalling because it's not the in-focus window. Wondering if anyone might have a clue?

from liblo import *
import sys

port = 7778

# adapted from pyliblo examples here:
# http://das.nasophon.de/pyliblo/examples.html

class OscServer(ServerThread):
    def __init__(self):
        ServerThread.__init__(self, port)

    @make_method('/max', 's')
    def max_callback(self, path, args):
        for a in args:
            print(">", a)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("receive_from_max.py OSC listener")
    try:
        server = OscServer()
    except ServerError:
        sys.exit()
    
    server.start()
    input("listening on port %i to Max console\n...press Enter to quit.\n" % port)

Hi colleagues, wondering if anyone has worked with this before and might know what's up. I've made myself a remote console from Max by using the console object and sending the output out over OSC. My object chain is:

console -> tosymbol -> prepend /max -> udpsend 127.0.0.1 7778

Hi colleagues, wondering if anyone has worked with this before and might know what's up. I've made myself a remote console from Max by using

max-to-python-to-iterm-over-osc-question-lagging

You could use a second OSC listener (like OSCShark) and compare with yours. So you'll know where the lag comes from.

You could use a second OSC listener  (like OSCShark) and compare with yours. So you'll know where the lag comes from.

Max to Python to iTerm over OSC question (lagging)