Arduino Firmata Actor

Paz

Hi! Please can anyone confirm whether the Arduino Firmata actor is designed to work with Arm based Macs. The actor is visible on my Intel based Mac - I can drag it into the workspace. However on my M1 Mac Mini I cannot locate it in the "Communications" section after the actor has been uploaded to the TroikaTronix Actor Plugins folder and then Isadora has been restarted. I'm eager to progress with @bonemap 's Arduino sensor setup!

Many thanks for your help! 😀

Best wishes Simon

Woland

@paz

We’ll try to release an ARM-compatible version at some point in the near future, but for now it is Intel-only.

Best wishes,

Woland

bonemap

@paz said:

I'm eager to progress with @bonemap 's Arduino sensor setup!

Hi Simon,

Apologies for the confusion. Let's hope that there is a chance it can be updated for Apple silicon at some point.

Best Wishes,

Russell

Paz

@bonemap @Woland thank you both for your responses.

Best wishes,

Simon

Lo 0

Hi all,

For an installation I am making with a PIR sensor, Arduino and Isadora, I downloaded the Arduino Firmata plugin and ran the script to install it. But unfortunately, when I search for the firmata actor in Isadora, it doesn't pop up. On my friends laptop it did work. The difference between me and her is that I have a new macbook with the m1 chip, could that be a reason why it's not working?

Any help is extremely welcome! Thank you!

Lo

Juriaan

@lo-0

Hi there!

First of all, welcome to the Isadora community!

That is correct, the Firmata actor has not been built for M1 yet. For now you can run Isadora in Rosetta mode to take advantage of the Firmata actor.

Let us know or that solves your question.

- Juriaan

Lo 0

@juriaan ah amazing, thank you I'm gonna give it a try!

Juriaan

@lo-0

Hi there lo-0,

We just published an version of the Firmata actor that also works on M1.

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

Let us know or you have any problems with it :)

- Juriaan

Lo 0

@juriaan Amazing!:)

FERNEY

@mark

Followed the instructions, though I cannot find the Arduino Firmata Actor in actors tool box. Any suiggestions? I am running Isadora 3.2.2 on MacOS monterey Apple M1 chip.

Cheers

bonemap

@ferney

It is an Add-on download: here

Best Wishes,

Russell