Amidiminder key info missing

Pisound
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I’ve been searching unsuccesfully for information on creating amidiminder rules and “where” to save them.

I can get amidiminder to observe the aconnect connections I make and I created a rule in the form of the following text “amidiminder.rules” (as there is no such file in the system amidiminder -C)

nanoKONTROL2 --> Pure Data Midi In
12Step Midi 1 --> Pure Data Midi In

I put this in a text file called amidiminder.rules in /local/etc (which is the suggested location on the Github project)

but it is not recognise when I type in amidiminder -C

any help with this would be appreciated, thanks

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The rules location should be /etc/amidiminder.rules.

Where does the /local/etc path come from?

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that was a typo, I meant /etc/amidiminder.rules.

There was no such file there at start. So I created a rule file using the nano editor, with the above rule content but after saving in that location when I use amidiminder -C option it says: “there is no such file”. Even after restarting

My question is: what exact steps need for the rules to load on start up?

Also: When I type amidiminder it lists the devices fine but you have to quit the terminal in order to type any other command.

Would It not be more useful if users could type the rules when evoking amidiminder and then being able to edit/save the rules there and then?

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amidiminder has no builtin location. You need to tell it where the file is, even if in the suggested location, with -f <filepath> even when using the -C option.

The default amidiminder.service that is installed with the .deb has this option coded in the start up command line:

[Unit]
Description=ALSA MIDI minder daemon
After=sound.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/amidiminder -f /etc/amidiminder.rules
EnvironmentFile=/etc/environment

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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Thank you, this was solved some days ago but me thinks : Is all this stuff readily documented and accesible in a format users with minimal Linux understanding could access?

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It’s documented in the repo’s README file… but yeah, there should be a man page.

I didn’t expect the project to get adopted so quick, so it wasn’t “distro polished”. Then life happened and I was away from music projects for quite a bit. I’m back! And will be posting about amidiminder soon

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Oh, I wasn’t criticising, I know how this goes. Also, though frustrating, solving linux issues like this is a good way to learn but yeh, the info would be great, thanks again. In fact I loaded a MODEP install onto my other Pi and couldn’t be happier.

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