Web client for ORAC 2.0

Sam_Knot · March 7, 2020, 2:36pm

Sorry bit off topic but just a brief note to say that after taking a wee break I found the problem I had getting osc-feedback into mobmuplat - mobmuplat uses the pd vanilla [oscformat]/[oscparse] objects, which can’t tell the difference between floats & integers - so I was sending [list /Connect 6101( quite rightly, but mobmuplat was reading 6101 as a float so passing wrong osc message to [netsend]. I just hacked my mobmupatch for now. Very frustrating but glad got something kind of sorted… I’m only really fiddling around like this because I couldn’t connect to the web client, don’t have lemur, and wanted something better suited to my phone (old samsung) than the pd client. Ta.

vibe_smutax · March 13, 2020, 7:24pm

Hi there
Nice to see someone working in that direction. I was trying to create something based on Mark’s PD clien in PdDroidParty. Btw, did you need to make any network settings in the Mobmuplat? Every time I tried, Mobmuplat crashes on me. Also what Android version is your old samsung on? I’m assuming you using latest Mobmuplat…
I also tried to create additional page in Mark’s lemur client which would make orac play notes & do aux button action with no success. Cheers.

vibe_smutax · March 15, 2020, 10:27pm

Also, out of curiosity, how have you solved the oscformat/oscparse issue? How did you go about the hack you mentioned? Thanks.

neo_nmik · March 27, 2020, 11:40am

FYI, anyone struggling with the instal (maybe getting “sh: 28: pip3: not found”), make sure you’ve followed the update info on the GitHub

Application depends on git , python3 (3.5, should work with 3.6, not sure about 3.7) and pip3 . Install script will check if git is installed, but you need to manually verify that python3 and pip3 are available ( pip3 --version and python3 --version ). Install the missing dependencies through your package manager, e.g. sudo apt-get install python3-pip .

And make sure you’ve definitely typed ‘sudo apt-get install python3-pip’…

Also, big thanks to @murmeklis!

Sam_Knot · April 2, 2020, 2:44pm

Hello - sorry for long delay in replying - my computer stuff all a mess at the minute as doing digital spring clean & moving over to/learning linux… BUT

mobmuoracsketch.zip (4.0 KB)

There’s the very rough sketch I was working on - feel free to see if it works for you - I guess we should start a new thread if we want to talk more about it (sorry if the tangent has annoyed anyone!). The second page has a bang or toggle that you have to hit to tell orac to connect. I wasn’t happy with how the menu was working, and the generally bodge-job nature of my approach - I was also experiencing the odd dropped package/bit with mobmu & started to wonder if some other approach entirely wasn’t warranted… (like just getting the webapp working & making do with my mpkmini).

I plan to upgrade to latest patchbox and try installing web app again (checking against info above) some time soon. But if you want to start a thread about making a mobmu or touchosc interface I’d be happy to try to contribute/help as & when I can.

I’m running Android 5.0 and mobmu 0.37. I had to set the broadcast IP address to my PI ip in mobmuplat, and the ports were 6100/6101 I think - sorry I’m not properly set up to check all that stuff at the min.

vibe_smutax · April 4, 2020, 9:11pm

Wow! Thanks for sharing @Sam_Knot ! You’ve done a grand job mate! I’m still trying to get my head around how you did it, looking at your pd patch . I try to fiddle with it a bit, do some tests & then hopefully post it to the the new thread with some simple guide for people how to customise it to their preferred appearance. Obviously with your permission. Thanks again. Keep safe & well.

Sam_Knot · April 12, 2020, 5:25am

Really glad that was at all useful for you mate, I will try to have a fiddle this week some time, tidy it up/comment it, maybe have a quick look at getting midi notes/aux out, and pop it in a new thread if I don’t see one already started. Cheers!

(edit: you have my permission to do whatever you want with it, btw, and you keep safe & well too, & happy easter all!)

vibe_smutax · April 14, 2020, 8:54pm

That’s would be fantastic! Thanks, you’ve done a lot already @Sam_Knot . You are an absolute star! Appreciate your time & effort! Cheers.

mark · May 20, 2020, 4:31pm

Out of curiosity, once this is running and installed is there a way to start and stop it?

Also, any thoughts as to why I would be able to access the web client on my PC but not using https://localhost:8080 on the RPi itself?

murmeklis · May 20, 2020, 7:23pm

Hello! It’s been a while but for the service I believe standard systemctl commands should work, i.e.
sudo systemctl start orac-control-web.service
sudo systemctl stop orac-control-web.service

For the localhost issue, I’m not sure, sorry. One thing I can offer to try is to open using http, not https, I don’t remember setuping https for this

wolfereeno · May 22, 2020, 8:04pm

Newbie - unable to get Orac web client to run from either localhost on the pi or from a machine I can connect via VNC.

Error is Err_connection_refused

Thx

wolfereeno · May 24, 2020, 11:41pm

I got it figured out - or at least stumbled across the answer. I ran the install script (curl…) above but after I’d switched modules and it installed and now works.

tonib · September 3, 2020, 7:42pm

Helped me getting the web app running, thanks!

wangpy · October 15, 2020, 8:58am

Awesome! It works well. I think this package should be in the ORAC module bundle.

strangegait · December 16, 2020, 3:58pm

Hi everyone. Trying to get the web client working. PiSound is running orac ok. Installed python3-pip update and then web client. When I put the IP address for my pi into my phone, I get the orac logo loading screen with “looking for osc service.” Not sure what’s up and can’t find a similar issue here on the forum. Thanks for any help.

languidlost · December 22, 2020, 12:42pm

yes, something’s broken… I get the same message

Giedrius · December 22, 2020, 2:13pm

What output do you get for these commands:

sudo systemctl status orac
sudo systemctl status mec

languidlost · December 22, 2020, 3:43pm

patch@patchbox:~ $ sudo systemctl status orac
● orac.service - Run Orac at boot
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/orac.service; enabled; vendor preset: ena
Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-12-22 15:41:55 GMT; 36s ago
Main PID: 534 (pd)
Tasks: 12 (limit: 2199)
Memory: 7.2M
CGroup: /system.slice/orac.service
├─534 /usr/bin/pd -rt -alsamidi -nogui -audiobuf 4 mother.pd main.pd
├─548 sh -c /usr/lib/puredata/bin/pd-watchdog
└─549 /usr/lib/puredata/bin/pd-watchdog

Dec 22 15:41:57 patchbox pd[534]: mainDir : .
Dec 22 15:41:57 patchbox pd[534]: dataDir : /home/patch/data/orac
Dec 22 15:41:57 patchbox pd[534]: mediaDir : /home/patch/media
Dec 22 15:41:57 patchbox pd[534]: moduleDir : modules
Dec 22 15:41:57 patchbox pd[534]: userModuleDir : ./usermodules
Dec 22 15:41:57 patchbox pd[534]: currentPreset : demo1
Dec 22 15:41:57 patchbox pd[534]: Preset : Init
Dec 22 15:41:57 patchbox pd[534]: Preset : demo1
Dec 22 15:41:57 patchbox pd[534]: Preset : demo2
Dec 22 15:42:11 patchbox pd[534]: preset loaded : demo1

patch@patchbox:~ $ sudo systemctl status mec
● mec.service - Run MEC at boot
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/mec.service; disabled; vendor preset: ena
Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-12-22 15:41:55 GMT; 1min 30s ago
Main PID: 535 (mec-app)
Tasks: 6 (limit: 2199)
Memory: 5.4M
CGroup: /system.slice/mec.service
└─535 /usr/local/MEC/mec-app osckontrol.json

Dec 22 15:41:56 patchbox mec-app[535]: Midi output opened :Pure Data:0
Dec 22 15:41:56 patchbox mec-app[535]: MecMidiProcessor enabling for midi to Pur
Dec 22 15:41:56 patchbox mec-app[535]: MecApi_Impl::init
Dec 22 15:41:56 patchbox mec-app[535]: oscdisplay initialise
Dec 22 15:41:56 patchbox mec-app[535]: listening for clients on 6100
Dec 22 15:41:56 patchbox mec-app[535]: KontrolDevice initialise
Dec 22 15:41:56 patchbox mec-app[535]: KontrolDevice::init
Dec 22 15:41:56 patchbox mec-app[535]: kontrol device : listening on 6000
Dec 22 15:41:56 patchbox mec-app[535]: KontrolDevice::init - complete
Dec 22 15:42:07 patchbox mec-app[535]: KontrolDevice::new client 127.0.0.1 : 600

languidlost · December 22, 2020, 4:55pm

and then I enabled the service… with no change

● mec.service - Run MEC at boot
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/mec.service; enabled; vendor preset: enab
Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-12-22 16:46:53 GMT; 7min ago
Main PID: 537 (mec-app)
Tasks: 6 (limit: 2199)
Memory: 5.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/mec.service
└─537 /usr/local/MEC/mec-app osckontrol.json

Dec 22 16:46:54 patchbox mec-app[537]: Midi output opened :Pure Data:0
Dec 22 16:46:54 patchbox mec-app[537]: MecMidiProcessor enabling for midi to Pur
Dec 22 16:46:54 patchbox mec-app[537]: MecApi_Impl::init
Dec 22 16:46:54 patchbox mec-app[537]: oscdisplay initialise
Dec 22 16:46:54 patchbox mec-app[537]: listening for clients on 6100
Dec 22 16:46:54 patchbox mec-app[537]: KontrolDevice initialise
Dec 22 16:46:54 patchbox mec-app[537]: KontrolDevice::init
Dec 22 16:46:54 patchbox mec-app[537]: kontrol device : listening on 6000
Dec 22 16:46:54 patchbox mec-app[537]: KontrolDevice::init - complete
Dec 22 16:47:04 patchbox mec-app[537]: KontrolDevice::new client 127.0.0.1 : 600

DrKoma · January 25, 2021, 9:10am

Im experiencing the same . ORAC runs as I hear throught the soundcard , but the Orac Client is in standby Looking for OSC Service…
The console also talks about socket.io but cant manage to understand the error