Time triggered changes of Pixelcontroller possible with OSC-bundle messages?

[ozett]

hi, i am digging into OSC-Bundle messages and saw the specs about the timestamp in OSC-Bundle messages. it says, If the thimestap is in the future, the server will process it than. That means, one could send OSC-Messages as a timer, to change presets at a later time. do you ever experienced/tested this? Will it work on your implementation of an OSC-Server?

[neophob]

no I never tested that. were do you read that? and did you test it?

[ozett]

i read it in the specs for OSC on opensoundcontrol. (http://opensoundcontrol.org/node/3/#timetags) as i wanted to leave as less work for a real programmer ;-) i took the last hour to test this. i grabbed a copy of pyOSC (https://gitorious.org/pyosc) and changed the testing.sender.py from the example to send bundles. at least (puhhhhh) i managed it.

besides: i now can send this binary-data from my homeserver to pixelcontroler. so i hope i can now faster change between presets. i do this, if someone walks through the motionsensor and walks down the stairs - i gabe him a white preset with a lot of light - and after 10 min. back to a prettty constantly running preset. now i can send with a bundle only 1 message instead of 2 messages before ( which had been 1)change preset and 2) load preset).

back on topic: than i went into the risk and added a timestamp for 60sec in the future to the bundle, send it to pixelcontroller and it was immediatly processed. so pixelcontroller (2.0) ignores this!?

as is wanted to give you a good basis, i cross-checked the send data with wireshark. so as long as i see, the timestamp was correct. if youre now interested in this, i can leave this up to you....

besides another point: what about with only 1 OSC-message to change to a preset and also load (=activate) it? like /SWITCH_PRESET, or to have all OSC-Preset messages alphabetically sorted, all preset-related OSC-Messages could start with /PRESET... , like /PRESET_SWITCH 140, /PRESET_LOAD 140, /PRESET_CHANGE 140, /PRESET_ACTIVATE 140 ...

i add a picture... go on famous pixelinvader!! (is there developer release of 2.1 to test yet?)