Well I was certainly making things more complex than I needed to. I ended up using the controller's toggle function, storing all controller values in the JSON and when recalling the JSON sending the controller values back to the controller. This activates the toggle and will set the effects to the correct state...when I get to that stage of the build.

KISS principal applied.

@miguelf

Welcome to the Isadora community forum!

You can use an Orbbec Astra on a MacStudio M2, with our OpenNI plugins which can be found here 

https://troikatronix.com/add-o...

Please be aware that Isadora needs to run in Rosetta mode and that it is very important that you read the README files that come with the plugin.

From there you can sent out all the data using OSC / sent the video image out using Syphon or NDI

Hi there @Niek-0 

Would love to know or the reply from @DusX resolved your query, if not feel free to let us know.

@juriaan

Thanks you very much

@woland Thanks woland

@duremovich😍

AMAZING. I cannot tell you how much time this will save me as I work through my midi controller patches. I am half done and it has been a slog tracing connections. As always, I really appreciate your input and expertise.

@woland. "Voila" - so much simpler.... thanx

@woland. Thanks for letting me know. I sketched something in using the in-range actor that's working. I'll clean it up and use that.

@woland

But i've found it!

In this isadora setup i can control tow leds on the arduino.

The code is in the next picture. Now to the next step, but the communication is there!

@dusx Thanks. I did add a very small delay to the envelope generators and that seemed to make a positive difference. I tested many variations of with and without auto fader... the added delay has basically fixed this problem. Setting the initial conditions when opening the patch is my next task. It's a bit bizarre when first starting up, though I bet that's the auto fader doing its thing.  Thanks again. The same patch has produced another set of questions and I will post them separately.  - John

@jtsteph said:

This is going to be particularly helpful when it comes time to build logic for cycling or shuffling clips in banks.

 Yay! I love being helpful :)

@woland Thank you! Just want I needed! Thanks - FAS

@woland Amazing resource! Thanks SO much...  - John

@quarterinchjack said:

I don't suppose you know of a way to package that up as a skeleton output that the decoder would recognise?

Unfortunately, it is not currently possible to programmatically create data with the special type "skeleton".

@dbini Thanks!

@dusx Thanks. Given this, as most of my calculators are used in momentary situations (button press, dial turn) I think that Javascript makes more sense. It greatly simplifies my patching. If I run into a situation where they are updating as a stream, I'll try to use calculators. 

I appreciate your input. 

Best, J

@tr742 said:

projected stages keystoning

It's also worth noting that you can also make a background Scene where you send all your video and then route it to the right Projector actor. Using this global projection mapping method, you only ever need to have one Projector (in the entire file) per Stage if your keystoning/mapping is the same for every Scene. It has the added benefit that if you ever have the need for different keystoning for the same Stage within the same file in different Scenes, you can use this same method, but use the actor chain Enter Scene Trigger > Trigger Value (2) > Broadcaster in the Scene that needs the "specialty" mapping/keystoning to affect a Router actor in the background mapping Scene to change the video's route so that instead of going to the "normal" mapped Projector actor (1 on the Router actor) the video goes to the "specialty" mapped Projector actor (2 on the Router actor), then have another Enter Scene Trigger > Trigger Value (1) > Broadcaster in the next Scene to switch the Router back.

@bonami said:

Wow that is such a detailed a very complete answer / explanation !

There are almost always multiple ways to accomplish the same task in Isadora, so I like to give examples of different methods because some may be more or less well-suited for a particular use case. :)

PANASONIC GH4 DSLR > ELGATO HD60 S > ISADORA. Has anybody been able to make this setup work using the GH4 for live capture, as my laptop will not recognize the the Elgato device? Elgato does not show up in Quicktime or any of the Elgato softwares. Any guidance and advice would be much appreciated. I'm using Izzy 3.2.6 in a Macbook Pro, 8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, Ventura 13.2.1.