[PD] physical computing: Lanbox
cyrille henry
cyrille.henry at la-kitchen.fr
Tue Sep 26 10:10:30 CEST 2006
Martin Peach a écrit :
> tim wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> LanBox + switchpack + pd works !
>>
>> One thing I still haven't figured out though:
>> When the tcpclient connection dies after a while I can only restore it
>> by sending |disconnect( first and then connecting again.
>> I can do this every 12 messages or so (see patch below), but this
>> can't be the good way, because in the real situation, the messages
>> will have variable timings.
>> Disconnecting and reconnecting before every message seems to get messy
>> and some messages get lost.
>> Why doesn't the 'keep connection alive' section of the lanbox patch
>> take care of this ?
>> I'm under the impression that tcpclient doesn't actively send a 0 on
>> its outlet when the connection dies on its own, but only when you send
>> it a disconnect message.
>> What's the best way make sure there is a connection before sending a
>> message ?
>>
>
> [tcpclient] outputs the connection state on its third outlet. Does this
> work for you? I would [select 0] on that outlet and use the bang to
> reconnect. Any idea why the connection dies?
the lanbox does have a timeout on the connection.
usually, sending a command every 30s solve the problem.
some test on the "keep connection alive" part of the patch sould be
made, but i don't have a lanbox anymore.
cyrille
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> Martin
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