Assign a configuration
The pydon osc interface allows us to configure new MiniBees with an OSC message. In this tutorial we assume that you use the example_hiveconfig.xml that is supplied with the pydon package as the starting configuration file.
After we’ve set up the OSCdefs as described on the previous page, we turn on an unconfigured MiniBee. After a while we see in the post window of SuperCollider:
[ /minibee/info, 0013A20040D75A5B, 1, 0, 0 ]
This means that a minibee with serial number 0013A20040D75A5B has connected, and that its ID is 1. And that there are 0 inputs and 0 outputs defined.
This message will keep being sent, as long as the minibee is not configured.
In the post window of pydongui, there will be a message that a file has been created and can be edited.
Instead of doing that, you can however send a message to pydongui via OSC like this:
We create a NetAddr to send a message to:
n = NetAddr.new( "127.0.0.1" , 57600 );
// 57600 is the default port number that pydongui is listening on
// this is the second argument to NetAddr.
And then we send a message to assign a configuration to MiniBee number 1:
n.sendMsg( "/minibee/configuration", 1, 1 ); // minibee id, config id
We use configuration number 1, which enables the accelerometer on board of the MiniBee.
After a while, you will see these messages in the SuperCollider post window:
[ /minibee/status, 1, waiting ] // waiting for configuration
[ /minibee/info, 0013A20040D75A5B, 1, 3, 0 ] // three inputs!
[ /minibee/status, 1, configured ] // configured
[ /minibee/status, 1, receiving ] // receiving data
// and a data message!
[ /minibee/data, 1, 0.49114882946014, 0.50030523538589, 0.52911734580994 ]
The data message will repeat often!
We can now save this configuration for later use:
n.sendMsg( "/minihive/configuration/save", "myfirstconfig.xml");
The file will be saved to the directory we started pydongui.py from. So for example:
( ~mypath +/+ "*.xml" ).pathMatch;
will show the automatically created config, and our myfirstconfig.xml.
The next time we start up pydongui we can choose this configuration file, and the MiniBee will be automatically configured.