Epoccam Feature Requests for Kinoni?

Skulpture

Sorry @jhoepffner only just seen this now.

Didn't know about your piece - Looks great!

stj

@ Kinoni
Just received my new iphone 5S. Works well in terms of speed, colors and stability, but the quality in low-light situations is much worse than the 4S and 5 models (video is much, much darker). It seems to be a software problem, because the MoviePro app allows me to use the 5S video mode perfectly in low light conditions.
Your MultiCam app works beautifully with my 2 cameras in HD quality, by the way :-)
Best, Stephan

Kinoni

@stj

Thanks for pointing out the issue in low-light situations. Looks like Apple recently added "low light boost" option to latest iPhones, we will experiment with that option to see if it makes any difference. Would you like to have it always enabled or is it better to have an option to enable it manually?

stj

@ Kinoni

Thanks for your quick reply!
Many lighting situations in theater are "low light", but not all of them - my guess is that that a manual option would be sufficient for most of us. Maybe someone else wants to comment?
Best, Stephan

flick

So far I can't get Epoccam to send anything to isadora.

Epoccam viewer pro sees the feed, but I can't get it to show up in Isadora in live capture previews.

Do I need Core / Quartz / Syphon etc? Or a certain version of Isadora? Not sure where to start problem-solving.

I'm on OSX 10.9.2

Michel

you need the "syphon to video" or "syphon to image" actor. What version of Isadora are you using?

Best
Michel

flick

Wow! That was easy Michel. I just got the latest pre-release and it works without further ado.

Much fun testing to be done.

flick

@skulpture - I think if you bottleneck the wifi signal with camera data, either at the router or at the mac antennae, it's the same thing. But a router would have better range and signal clarity.

But if you only have 802.11g on the mac, then you are better off with 802.11n router for wireless cams and hardwire to the mac (or even 802.11ac, maybe overkill).

Better / more antennaes on the router would give you better overall performance... you can set the channel / frequency to get the best signal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11n#Data_rates

But don't you need to eat up a thunderbolt port with an ethernet adapter? That seems like a waste! Sounds like you have a MDP macbook, hopefully with ethernet port...

On the other hand, I've found in times past that display port interfered with macbook wifi antennae. Also advantageous to put the antennae (router) where you want it (closer to stage and cams, away from power cables and other transmitters) and the macbook where you want it... dedicated components always have a bit of an advantage.

primaldivine

_@Kinoni
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_I forgot to mention that app should work on OS X 10.7 Lion and later, probably not on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard._

Do you have any plans to include Snow Leopard, 10.6.8 or will it only be 10.7 forwards? thanks for the great work you are doing

mark

Dear All,

Just wrote a little report on my recent use of Epoccam for a piece I did in England. It worked beautifully for me.

http://troikatronix.com/troikatronixforum/discussion/1271/artists-report-isadora-epoccam-duration

Best Wishes,
Mark

bennid

Dear All,
_I'm quite new to epoccam and syphon, but here are my feedbacks and requests
I'll be using softs on piece involving dancer in part of a whole performance, ( www.le-spang.fr )

_1- Is it possible to lock screen so that dancer doesn't interact disconnect or change option in the touch screen ( 3 taps on symbol to unlock would be good don't you think?)
2- is there a way to save more battery by de-activate the phone screen and leave it black? (despite locked mode remains camera connection impossible?)/ being able to switch on the stream via osc to save power?
3- will we be able to freeze the focus of the cam or even controll it via osc ? ( I saw it was questionning for the flashlight already... )
<edit/ focus can be blocked on multicam version
4- Wifi routeur: I saw a few recommandation but does anyone has a specific model / brand to advice to get the more stability brandwidth on multicam inputs? which chanel / band to use to get more trust in crowded public performance?

Thanks to all, and Bravo Kinoni to work closed to isadora, it is a great thing !

Michel

@Kinoni

@bennid
I can answer your first question.
iPhone and iPad have a built in kiosk mode, I have used this many times and it's really helpfull.

First you have to enable “Guided Access” in your iOS settings

Open “Settings”
Go to “General” > “Accessibility”
Tap on “Guided Access” (Scroll down the page a little, it’s under the “Learning” section)
Flip the switch to “ON”

**
Way number one:**
Open the app of your choice (epoccam) tripple klick the home button, know klick on start and enter a passcode. This prevents people to close the active app, but they can still change the settings.
To leave the kiosk mode tripple klick the home button again and enter the passcode.

Way number two:
Open the app of your choice (epoccam) tripple klick the home button, now draw a circle or a rectrangle with your finger around the buttons you want to be locked, click continue. Know the chosen areas a locked.
To leave the kiosk mode tripple klick the home button again and enter the passcode.

Best
Michel

Skulpture

http://www.webascender.com/Blog/ID/447/How-to-Setup-Kiosk-Mode-Lock-Your-iPad-to-Just-One-App#.VCFMtCtdVlk

Armando

Thanks Michel and Skulpture. You are one of the souls of this forum!

bennid

Thanks a lot,
it's perfect and easy, Guided Access will solve a lot to me !

@Kinoni I wonder if you wish to developp osc controll as mark proposed for focus exposure flashlight accel and so on...?
such feature would really make it definately complete!

Thanks!

bennid

Do you know where I can find phones' video stream weights regarding size in mb/s to have an idea about wireless needs?
Bests

bennid

Hi guys,
I tested jailbroken Iphone 5 on ios 7 Video stream with epoccam multi and brandwith app
0,3 mb/min on 1280/720
0,15 mb/min 640/480

so it's not a lot (certainly due to compression),
I suppose, if it's matching the same rule than wifi hotspots,that a 750mb/s (even if technically would be twice less)
is really enough.

Kinoni

@bennid

Thanks for the feedback. Answers to your questions:

1) Answered already, thanks Skulpture.

2) Dimming the screen is a feature asked by many users. Maybe we should implement it so that after a minute screen dims and touching it activates the screen again. Not sure how much battery that would save though, sending video over WiFi seems to drain the battery.

3) We have studied OSC support a bit, and it looks like a massive task to implement controlling all camera parameters. At this point adding this feature does not look like viable business decision.

4) In general 5GHz WiFi channels are less crowded that 2.4GHz channels, but 5 GHz WiFi has less range. It really depends on your environment if there are many WiFi networks and WiFi users sucking the bandwidth. One feature we are looking at is direct connection between phone and Mac, eliminating need for wireless router. Not sure how well this works for multiple devices, need to do some testing on it.

Skulpture

"5 GHz WiFi has less range" Interesting - I did not know this. Thanks.

bennid

@Skulpture
here is it ;-)
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24246/~/should-i-use-the-2.4-ghz-or-5-ghz-wireless-band%3F

@Kinoni2) maybe Kinoni screen behaviour could just match global ios pref regarding screen dimmer (allowing to dim automatically) so that it doesn't affect your soft interface?
(dimming by default could be a huge problem when we use it with accessibility/guided access to prevent screen and button interfering...)

I don't realise how much hard this is but focus lock/unlock and eventually remote could definately be a plus !
maybe we'll find later how to use "touch osc" backgrounded for other accels and orientations' sends.
I use 2 to 3 cams, on ad hoc point from my laptop and it 's working quite well, but maybe you meant you're developping wired connectivity?