Thank-you so much for taking the time. Turning the spigot off baffled me until you explained it. Still confused on the multiport triggers? Thanks-again. JoeF.

Meant prepend. And, append. Doh!

Hello, Years ago I got help for a project on the forum. Got the project working but never understood the patch. Can someone help explain the steps here, please.
Data is being delivered via the comport as an x and y position. It looked something like 15x14y13x17y11x10 and on and on. I understand that asci code is being delivered across the serial connection from an arduino sketch and that 120 selects the x character but not really much else. Why porepend and not append for instance? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. JoeF.

how-serial-works-simple.pd

Tx!

tx!

Hello there. I have made a volume control from my WII remote. I am wondering if there is a less cludgy way? And how I might limit my button push date I use to index the table data to stay between 0 and .9 . Thanks. Joef

volume_button_wii.pd

Thanks for the help. It was useful. I do have to explicitly declare everything... Uggh. Well, at least I have the objects. JoeF.

Hello, I am able to load a couple of PD externals. I am using Pd 0.46.7 on Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit. I am using the find externals command under the help menu. I see the directories in my ~pd-externals folder. But when I try and use objects like [counter] that are supposed to be in these externals I get a can"t create error?
I get this message when I start PD
sys_midiapi 1
input channels = 2, output channels = 2
priority 6 scheduling failed; running at normal priority
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/zexy.l_ia64 and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/zexy.pd_linux and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/zexy/zexy.l_ia64 and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/zexy/zexy.pd_linux and failed
/home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/zexy: can't load library
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/cyclone.l_ia64 and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/cyclone.pd_linux and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/cyclone/cyclone.l_ia64 and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/cyclone/cyclone.pd_linux and succeeded

Cyclone 0.3 beta 2; Released: June 19th, 2017
This is a sub library containing the objects:
[!-], [!-~], [!/], [!/~], [!=~], [%~], [+=~], [<=~], [<~], [==~], [>=~] and [>~]

tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/upp.l_ia64 and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/upp.pd_linux and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/upp/upp.l_ia64 and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/upp/upp.pd_linux and failed
/home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/upp: can't load library
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/Gem.l_ia64 and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/Gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/Gem/Gem.l_ia64 and failed
tried /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/Gem/Gem.pd_linux and succeeded
/home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/Gem/Gem.pd_linux: libftgl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/Gem: can't load library
deken-plugin.tcl (Pd externals search) in /home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/deken-plugin loaded.
Platform detected: Linux-x86_64-64bit
'deken-plugin.tcl' already loaded, ignoring: '/home/lulujoe13/pd-externals/deken-plugin/deken-plugin.tcl'
Opened Alsa Client 128 in:0 out:2
counter 1
... couldn't create

Can anyone offer suggestions and help? Thanks. JoeF.

Hello, I got great support here

http://jackaudio.org/community.html

@whale-av. And boom! It works. Tx, so much. JoeF.

Here is my patch. plotter-parse-xy-midi-out.pd

Hello, I have a PD patch that uses makenote and noteout to send midi note numbers to amsynth. I can see and connect PD midi out to amsynth midi in and amsynth audio out to system audio in in qjackctl but I get no sound? I do hear sound when I manually trigger the sound in amsynth. I have added the -alsamidi flag at startup. I'm using Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit. Any suggestions? Tx JoeF

@whale-av. Dang. Works like a charm! Tx to all. Again.

Thanx to all. It'll probably take weeks to figure out what you all did. But, the longest journey starts with one step...
If you want to see where x and y come from then look at the link below. In this iteration I am calculating the hypotenuse of a triangle on the arduino and sending that one value as a midi note number to pd. Now, I am sending the x and y so I can have 2 values to use in pd. Depending on the image printed the sequence changes but is unique and repeatable for each image.

@whale-av Thanks for the help. Didn't know to declare the library. That did it!

When I try and make the symbol2list object I get

symbol2list: can't load abstraction within itself

symbol2list
... couldn't create
s2l
... couldn't create
list2symbol
... couldn't create
symbol2list: can't load abstraction within itself

symbol2list _
... couldn't create

Hello, I have the dekken patch and am trying to install zexy. None of the tar files work once installed in pd-extended folder. Anyone get it to work? Tx.

@ingox if I feed comport.pd with my serial port I get nothing like the formatted output you show?

OK. So, I asked the wrong question. How do I take a stream of values coming through the serial port and format a list?
I receive the value 104 which is encoded h
Then an encoded digit, lets call it $1
Then an encoded digit, lets call it $2
Then the value 44 which is a comma
Then an encoded digit, lets call it $3
Then an encoded digit, lets call it $4
Then the value 102 which is f

Stream looks like this and f is a float variable.

104
f
f
44
f
f
102 over and over

I know I can take ($1 - 48) x 10 + ($2 - 48) = sensor value x
($3 - 48) x 10 + ($4 - 48) = sensor value y

How do I make a list like reactivision or hid? So I can use route? I know this is alot to ask about with the little understanding I have, so I am extra grateful for any help.

Tx all. Slow but steady, here. Nice to have such sharp help!