Happy New Year All!

Ok, so last year I was able to use my android tablet to communicate with PD on my windows 8 laptop using touchosc..

I took a 5 month haitus and upon my return it doesn´t work anymore!! Ha ha, I have absolutely no clue why.

Previously I was connecting via hotspot from my android tablet, using wi-fi also worked.

Now neither method works.... touchosc does not even detect my laptop anymore

I also have a new laptop running windows 10, same problem, however, using wi-fi works between Renoise on the laptop and my tablet. TouchOsc only detects my laptop using wi-fi.

The major changes I think of on the old laptop are: bssdk.dll went missing.....(bluetooth related) and there was a trojan which supposedly has been removed. I have had zero functionality problems with the exception of this touchosc issue.

tablet: asuszenpad 10

laptop 1: asus f550l Windows 8 32 bit

laptop 2: alienware 15 r3 Windows 10 64 bit

firewall disabled on laptop 2, set to allow for pure data and renoise on laptop 1

To be clear, I am most interested in getting it to work on laptop 2.

I must be missing something simple....any and all help appreciated:)

EDITS: because I can´t spell.......more edits: adding important info

@lovelovevideo TouchOsc doesn't care whether it "sees" the laptop. You would need "bonjour" (from Apple) installed on the laptop for zeroconf "names" to be visible and chosen in TouchOsc. As long as you have TouchOsc set to send to an IP address on the network (that of the laptop of course........ and it's best to give it a fixed address) and to a port that is not used elsewhere (8000 and above is usually safe)..... it will send the messages.

Pd on the laptop needs to be listening on the same port, and needs to accept messages through the firewall (private for your network, public for messages from the internet). In the firewall it could be pd.exe or pd.com that needs to be "allowed".... depends on which executable is being called when you start your patch. Probably pd.exe if you have not changed anything in Pd's standard setup.

TouchOsc uses udp....... no verifiable connection is made as with tcp..... it just sends off the messages without caring whether they arrive. So the receiver needs to receive udp. If you have changed from extended to vanilla the objects you need are not the same as in extended!!!!
Check all of that, reboot your router just in case, and post again......
David.

@whale-av thanks as usual for your swift response...

Ok, let´s begin...

Firewall is totally disabled....while allowing pd just for good measure.

bonjour is installed

I´m using this test simple-receive.pd on port 8000

I have set the midi device to Touch OSC

And the ip address is fine as Touch OSC is detecting it automatically.

It works perfectly with Renoise.

There must be some small detail I´m missing.

@whale-av ahhhh and indeed I am using extended

@lovelovevideo You mention Midi..... have you set TouchOsc to send midi messages (the newer version can do that)? [dumpOSC] will not receive midi messages........
David.

@whale-av well, maybe i´m missing it, however, this is an older version of TouchOSC...there seems to be no option for that...so I would say no?

@lovelovevideo In the options in TouchOsc you can tell it to send a ping (it sends every 60 seconds.... I remember....... when ticked). Put a print connected to [dumpOSC] and see if the pings arrive in the Pd terminal window. If no ping then has the tablet/phone connected to the wrong network?....... no not the wrong network if it is seeing your ip....... clutching at straws.........
If you send messages back to TouchOsc does the little red dot flash at top right of the window?
I will try to dig out a patch to test that........
This should make the red dot flash every 2 seconds........
osc_test.pd
if you put the phone's IP (and TouchOSC port) in the message for [udpsend] and bang it.
David.

@whale-av OKKKK, so you made me think..

Even though the MIDI section of TOUCHOSC was updating the IP automatically. The OSC section, which, as per your info, I have realised is what matters, was NOT updating...manually configuring it does the trick.

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