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benjamin vyger

I have an offset with datas received in ESP32

Below I want to control one strip of 256 leds.

Here I send 768 datas (RGB)  + 1 datas ( "the row"  where pixels will be controlled)

As we can see, I receive several time r,g ,b and after there is an offset with datas.

I tested to send less datas, but it doesn't change the bug.

When these bugs are fixed, I would like to send with row 0 the R,G,B data to leds 0 to 255 and with row 1 to leds 256 to 512. (when there are two lines at [jit.noise 3 char 256 2])

#include <WiFi.h>
#include <WiFiUdp.h>
#include "esp_wifi.h"
WiFiUDP Udp;
 const unsigned int localPort = 8009; // UDP Port
 IPAddress local_IP(192, 168, 0, 9);
 IPAddress gateway(10, 10, 10, 1);
 IPAddress subnet(255, 255, 0, 0);

#define LED_BUILTIN 16
#define BUILTIN_LED LED_BUILTIN
#include <FastLED.h>
#define NUM_LEDS 256
#define PIN_CONTROLLING_STRIP 23
CRGB leds[NUM_LEDS];
uint8_t buffer[769];

void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200);
WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA); esp_wifi_set_ps(WIFI_PS_NONE); WiFi.config(local_IP, gateway, subnet);Udp.begin(localPort);
WiFi.begin("SFR-d078", "DEDW3VPARYGZ");// SSID & password
Serial.println("IP address: ");Serial.println(WiFi.localIP()); Serial.print("Local port: ");Serial.println(localPort);
FastLED.addLeds<NEOPIXEL, PIN_CONTROLLING_STRIP>(leds, NUM_LEDS); FastLED.setBrightness(180);
for (int i = 0; i <= NUM_LEDS; i++) {leds[i] = CRGB(0, 0, 0); // turn off all
FastLED.show();}
}

void loop() {Udp.parsePacket(); if(Udp.read(buffer, 769) > 0) {showit();Serial.println();}}

void showit(){int row = buffer[768]; Serial.print("row "); Serial.println(row);
for (int j = 0; j < 768; j++) {int pix = (j/3); // 768/3=256 led.
int r = (buffer[pix]); int g = (buffer[pix+1]); int b = (buffer[pix+2]);
 Serial.print ("r "); Serial.print (r); Serial.print ( " g "); Serial.print (g); Serial.print (" b "); Serial.print (b);}
}


sending 512 rgb pixels  to ESP 32 as  a ZIGZAG  strip of two 256 leds.  RESOLVED

sending-rgb-to-esp-32-to-control-led-strip

DaSheng Hen

I use js code to randomly generate 10 numbers and save them in dict. I can receive the numbers normally, but why does dict always prompt "dict: doesn't understand "int"" ?

dict-error-message

Dict error message

Ullstein

I built a standalone app and would like to include a function that the patcher saves to disc at closebang without having a Mac dialog appear. 

The idea is to save a few data in the app each time it is closed without asking the user to save it.

Is there any command available to do so? I checked the complete browser but cannot find any. Is there are workaround to get there?

I built a standalone app and would like to include a function that the patcher saves to disc at closebang without having a Mac dialog appear. 
The idea is to save a few data in the app each time it is closed without asking the user to save it.
Is there any command available to do so? I checked the complete browser but cannot find any. Is there are workaround to get there?
Thanks!

I built a standalone app and would like to include a function that the patcher saves to disc at closebang without having a Mac dialog appear

save-the-patcher-function-inside-a-standalone

You'll need to save stuff to the standalone's preferences folder.

Hi Andrew,
thanks for your quick response, but please forgive my stupidity:
- my app does not have or create a preference folder, or at least I cannot find it. Where would it be? In user/Library/Preferences?
- and how do I save to the preferences? Sorry I've never done that...
- is there any tutorial or so?

this 
https://cycling74.com/tutorials/get-your-max-standalone-on-apple%E2%80%99s-mac-app-store 
has  information re mac but I think you can apply it to windows too


You can set a custom name for your app's prefs using the standalone object, in its inspector.


to get the path to it, which you can use to save things. In general, users do not have permission to modify  apps folders.

Thanks Andrew and thanks to Floating Point. That solved my problem, many thanks

Sorry Andrew and Floating Point, but the problem is not solved yet. Yes I can create a folder in "~Library/Application Support", write a .txt-file into it, but I can't read it out, because the separation of the two words "Application" and "Support" makes any "read" command to the "Text"-object assuming additional arguments. When I make a symbol out of the path, it cannot find it. How do I access "Application Support" from within a patch?

you need to enclose the file path in double quotes, for example:
(read "my mac/Library/Application Support/my text.txt")

you can use the tosymbol object to help with this

Hi Floating Point,
many thanks, in the meantime I found it. I just made to many trials, so that I got confused, I had the solution already, but did not see it, due to over concentration. Sorry for bothering
Many thanks again and have a good day... Hans Peter


Save the patcher function inside a standalone

noddy-oer

Hello! I'm working on a gen~ patch that relies on using two separate counters to drive two peek objects. At certain points the counters become unsync'd and I'm looking for a way to send an instantaneous trigger into their middle inlets when a parameter changes value (it's a param that only goes from 0->1 or vice versa).

I tried just setting that param into the middle inlets but as expected that just sends a steady stream of samples with whatever value the param has, and so would re-trigger the counter once per-sample which is not what I want.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated, thanks!

Gen~: Instantaneous reset trigger for counters?

gen-instantaneous-reset-trigger-for-counters

Tim Massar

Hi, Im creating a picture slider using PNG images. My BG only has 1 pic, my slider has 127. I can't get the slider image to properly slide through, for some reason it always goes through twice. attached are the pngs and below is the patch. Thanks! Edit - the slider png won't attach. It's horizontal, 127 images. Everything's correct with it as far as I see.

Edit: If anyone runs into this in the future, knobman makes a "stitched PNG" which is one file with all frames of the animation of the knob one after the other. the Pictslider object only needs a single image and it takes care of the "animation"/movement of the image itself. 

Hi, Im creating a picture slider using PNG images. My BG only has 1 pic, my slider has 127. I can't get the slider image to properly slide...

pict-slider-not-lining-up

Pict slider not lining up

Tommy Scannell

Hello, I'm sending visuals from touch designer via spout to access them in Max. I'm using jit.gl.spoutreceiver and sending that from a jit.pworld into some matrix objects to sonify the original texture. It works when I do one jit.

 and matrix, but when I add a second instance for another spout stream, it won't convert, even though I can see the texture being rendered in the jit.pworld. 

I thought it could be an issue with the naming of the matrix and world objects but that doesn't seem to be working. 

I'm not super experienced with jitter so not sure if I'm missing something obvious, or whether it's an issue with having  multiple spout streams. 

Any tips in the right direction would be greatly appreciated :) 

issue converting second jit.pworld into a matrix

issue-converting-second-jitpworld-into-a-matrix

tyler mazaika

I have a few RNBO abstractions which use a construct like:

Which allows me to reference 'argsbuf' from codebox (which doesn't otherwise allow access to variable-named buffers, AFAIC), while also allowing the possibility of re-using the same abstraction .rnbopat file with different buffer references.

This seems to work ok generally, but in one of the more nested uses of this error and can't compile the code.

Codegen Error undefined
Multibuffer 'argsbuf' is defined more than once with differents buffer lists.

I also believe this error to be inaccurate, as I've audited all instances of multibuffer and they have the same buffer list (#1, which is always being resolved to the same buffer name/reference).

I've tried re-creating this error using the same abstractions in various implementations and can't seem to do it, so I feel a bit lost understanding what's going on.

Does anyone have some ideas or guidance about what I could try?  Thank you.

Multibuffer 'foo' is defined more than once with different buffer lists

multibuffer-foo-is-defined-more-than-once-with-different-buffer-lists

MKHM

Just wanted to share an issue I ran into recently with Max not launching, in case it helps someone else out there.

I’m running Max 9.0.5 on macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 (Apple Silicon), and things were working totally fine until one day the application just stopped launching. It would open, hang, and never respond. I’d get the beachball, and eventually I had to force-quit. No error message, no crash popup — just a frozen Max.

 my annual Max subscription renewed. I noticed that Max asked to be reauthorised, but I wasn’t able to complete the process due to network access issues. After I closed the app, I couldn’t get it to run again. It would just hang on launch every time after that.

I went through pretty much everything you’d expect. I deleted preferences, removed all third-party externals and packages, tried launching Max from a new user account, reinstalled multiple versions of Max (both older and newer), even reinstalled macOS — all while preserving my files — but nothing worked. It felt like the app was cursed.

Eventually I took a look at the macOS crash logs and noticed that Max was getting stuck during startup on a system-level call related to network sockets. The process was basically sitting idle, waiting on a response that never came. One line stood out:

Launchd throttled processes: com.paceap.eden.licensed

That pointed me to iLok/PACE software — which I hadn’t really thought about, since I wasn’t actively using any iLok licenses. Still, something in Max (or one of its dependencies) clearly was.

So I fully uninstalled iLok and PACE from my system. There’s an uninstaller app if you have it, or you can manually remove the components from /Library/LaunchDaemons, /Library/Application Support, and /Applications. Then I rebooted, reinstalled the latest version of iLok License Manager from the iLok website, rebooted again, and tried launching Max.

And it worked. No more hanging, and I was finally able to reauthorise the app.

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