[PD] shell pipe to signal]

[august]

Federico Bonelli say:
> Hallo,
> 
> I would like to pass some data from a shell to a pd patch that is on  
> another machine in the subnetwork. I have solved most of the troubles  
> using nc in the form
> >  more junk | nc 146.50.10.35 9000
> and putting my patch with netsreceive  on port 9000.
> 
> My problem is rather banale for you guys, but i had not find a  
> solution in the archives of the list...
> 
>  but how do i translate these data (floating point values in between  
> 0 and 1) in audio signal? The data represents a 8khz sample of sound....
	
fredd,

what you want to do sounds pretty interesting.

some tips:  as far as I can remember, you will want to add ";" to all of
your values that you send over the net.   the ";" is Pd's end of line
character and I believe netreceive will expect one for each value. 

on the pd end, you probably want something like this:

[netreceive 9000 1]
|
[$1 10(
|
[line~]
|
[dac~]


for that example, inorder to hear something, you would want to scale your original data to be in the range of  -1.0 <-> 1.0   (not 0.0 <-> 1.0) 

but, I just tried it now and can't seem to get nc to send more than just
the first value.

I try:   cat file.txt | nc -uv localhost 9000
(the "-u" is for udp)

the file.txt looks like this:
0.41;
0.31;
0.31;
0.21;
0.11;


but "nc"   seems to hang with the first value of 0.41, not sending the
rest.

best of luck.

-august.





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