Hello my fellow Isadorables,

Anyone in the region of Bochum, Germany next Thursday, 18 September, is invited to come and see Natalie Inside Out, the product of my long collaboration with Handstand Maestro Natalie Reckert. We've done it in English, we've done it in French, and now it's the German Language premiere of the show. Lots of fun to be had 'cause Natalie is German.... and I don't speak it at all except for this:  Ich bin ein Berliner!

The show's at 2030 at Prinzregent Theatre, Bochum.

Tickets are on sale from 15 September. If you want to come, get in touch. I have a couple of comps. Say hello afterwards! The whole show is powered by Isadora, and we wring just about every drop of blood from her to make this technical and acrobatic spectacular sparkle!

https://www.prt-bochum.de/

@mark_m

I have used a HDBaseT set instead of a ‘real cable’ without any problem as well. 

@armando

Thank you, that's really good to know that Fibre Optic cables can control the camera. I had *asssumed*, because they are marked "source" and "output" that they were unidirectional, only carried the digital signal in one direction, and so couldn't be used for camera control. I will test mine out now :-)

@Reload2024 

You might have success with "SpoutLink".

It was created for s different purpose but should do the job for you. It will receive from Unity, then output as "SpoutLink" which you can show on  your video wall. If you have Isadora with Spout output running at the same time, SpoutLink will instantly switch to it when the Unity game closes.

@mark_m Hi Mark,

I don't know how much distance you need but I have found and used 125 feet (38 meters roughly) fiber-optic HDMI cables that do transport also the blackmagic camera controls from an HDMI Atem Extreme pro ISO. I never needed more. 

@Armando Hi Armando I hope you're well. 

I've been using a few of these devices for interactive installations within my teaching and research. Essentially they're a replacement for my Kinect cameras which stopped working correctly. 

I wanted some sensors for 3D depth capture with POE - I settled on the OAK-D, though if any of these new tracking and depth sensing cameras had plug and play connectivity with Isadora I'd have been interested. Maybe the new Pythoner actor can come to the rescue?!

Currently I'm using Touchdesigner to process the data from OAK-D and I then send the results back to Isadora via NDI.

Hopefully in the future there will be a way to do this directly within Isadora, like with the Kinect camera and the OpenNI Tracker actor - if anyone knows how, please let me know!

Best wishes,

Simon

@paz said:

Luxonis Oak-D camera (POE),

 Hi simon, just curous. hoe he you youse this camera and what fo? I don't mean to pry...

That works perfectly!

I guess I was clicking on the quad instead of its checkbox, trying to add an OSC control.

Thanks, @jandraka

I have a Unity game that I output to my video wall via Spout. I'd like to have Isadora play a nice effect on the walls whenever the signal from Unity stops, and in particular at the beginning as a sort of elevator music waiting for the game to start outputting.  Is there any way to detect if spout is getting a signal or not?  Maybe an actor between spout and the projector that can tell if something is playing?

@gunther

You are not wrong in finding the routing control string formatting confusing. I have found the help text has a number of errors. 
I have tested in Isadora 4, and can confirm the volume controls work, but require a format that the help text is incorrect about.
Here is a formatting string for the Text Formatter:

 "1:1@" P1 "; 2:2@" P2

For control by percentage the % sign can NOT be used. The string format expected is: 1:1@0; 2:2@100

Note also, that the separator is a semi-colon not a comma as stated in the help.

I am entering these discrepancies into our bug tracker, and will ensure they are fixed for the next release.

A feature, you may not have noticed is that if you use the routing widget (click the actor grid Icon) and adjust the volume per channel there, the actor will create the input router string. This is the easiest way to get a working reference string.