<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">There is a metro that’s sending out a list to the abstraction every 21 ms.. and right now I’m sending a close msg followed by an open message every second to keep it alive - but that occasionally interrupts my data.<div class=""> </div><div class="">is there a lower level usb keep alive message I should try sending outside of Pd?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 13, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Pagano, Patrick <<a href="mailto:pat@digitalworlds.ufl.edu" class="">pat@digitalworlds.ufl.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">i assume it's connected via usb, you should poll it if possible to keep it alive if there is no metro on in the patch<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="Signature" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><i class="">Patrick Pagano B.S, M.F.A</i></font></div><div class="">Audio and Projection Design Faculty</div><div class="">Digital Worlds Institute</div><div class="">University of Florida, USA</div><div class="">(352)294-2020</div></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 562.515625px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pd-list <<a href="mailto:pd-list-bounces@mail.iem.at" class="">pd-list-bounces@mail.iem.at</a>> on behalf of Jesse Mejia <<a href="mailto:jmejia@anestheticaudio.com" class="">jmejia@anestheticaudio.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, June 13, 2016 2:41 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Matthias Kronlachner<br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pd-list@mail.iem.at" class="">pd-list@mail.iem.at</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [PD] uDMX hanging/locking up</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class="">Thanks - I started to look into that one, but it seemed like it required quite a bit of other software, I’ll take another look though.<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 13, 2016, at 1:49 AM, Matthias Kronlachner <<a href="mailto:m.kronlachner@gmail.com" class="">m.kronlachner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Jesse,<br class=""><br class="">I haven't used the uDMX device but several other DMX devices with OLA (Open Lighting Architecture) under MacOS and Linux.<br class="">Here is an external that allows you to receive and send DMX data to OLA:<br class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/kronihias/ola2pd">https://github.com/kronihias/ola2pd</a><br class=""><br class="">Maybe this solution is more stable fou your. It for sure is more flexible as OLA supports many different devices, but this is transparent to the user.<br class="">So in case you change to eg. Artnet you don't have to change your patch.<br class=""><br class="">Best, Matthias<br class=""><br class="">On 11/06/16 22:24, Jesse Mejia wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi list,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m using a uDMX device (<a href="http://www.anyma.ch/research/udmx/" class="">http://www.anyma.ch/research/udmx/</a>) and having some trouble with it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m running Pd 0.47</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m sending a list (read out from a continually updated table) with 144 entries (for 144 DMX channels) every 50ms dispatched via [metro 50]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After a few minutes of ‘inactivity' (meaning sending a list with 144 0’s every 50ms) - the uDMX interface activity light goes dark - and I can’t get anything out of my patch to it anymore. Re-instantiating the uDMX external object brings it back to life.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Has anyone had trouble keeping these things alive? Or maybe I’m updating it too fast - but I get nicer light fades at a fast framerate (while it’s working).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or maybe there’s a better way to control this thing? Ultimately it’s for a an interactive/dynamic patch where any/all of the 144 channels will be triggered at any given time.. so traffic control as a table gets constantly updated seemed like a good approach.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Jesse</div><br class=""><fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset><br class=""><pre class="">_______________________________________________
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