[PD] How to get a list of midi devices without GUI

[Antoine Villeret]

hello again,


I found the issue,

with `-nogui`, the patch is loaded before midisettings are done (like
audiosettings)
and `[mediasettings/midisettings]` updates it's own device list on startup
or on `[device ...(` message.

So when the patch is loaded at startup without gui,
`[mediasettings/midisettings(` records 0 mididevices.
I have to send a dummy `[device ...(` message 1sec after loadbang to update
the list and then `[listdevices(` report the right number of devices.
Another solution could be to delay the patch loading.

Shouldn't `[mediasettings/midisettings]` update it's own device lists on
`[listdevices(` message ?

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2014-02-09 16:17 GMT+01:00 Antoine Villeret <antoine.villeret at gmail.com>:

> thanks, but no,
>
> at least with Pd Vanilla 0.45-4, the right flag is *-listdev* to list all
> devices (both midi and alsa) in the PD's console.
>
> According to this 10-years old post [1], I can still make a redirection of
> stderr or read at it.
>
> Another solution, since my problem concern only Linux, is to read the
> output of `ls /dev/midi* | wc -l` to get a list of mididevices, but this
> doesn't tell if it's input or output.
>
> +
> a
>
> [1] : http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2004-10/023368.html
>
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>
> 2014-02-09 16:08 GMT+01:00 Pagano, Patrick <pat at digitalworlds.ufl.edu>:
>
>  I think it's just --listdevices on the command line
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Feb 9, 2014, at 10:03 AM, "Antoine Villeret" <
>> antoine.villeret at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>   Hello,
>>
>>  I'm wondering how to get a list of midiout devices without GUI.
>> This has to work without GUI.
>>
>>  I tried [mediasettings/midisettings] but it always report 0 devices
>> (both in and out) when there is no GUI.
>> i also know the -listdev option to Pd, but this only list devices in
>> console, and I need to proccess the number in the patch.
>>
>>  I observe this on Linux (both Ubuntu 12.04 64bit and Raspbian (kernel
>> 3.10.25+) with pd 0.45-4.
>> But it seems to be OK on MacOS with pd 0.45-3.
>>
>>  Thanks
>>
>>  Antoine
>>
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