Extend Open Sound Control API

[lupin3rd]

It would be nice to implement more OSC messages to control vimix sources status from controller or other software.
It would be very helpful if Vimix sent the video players percentage, so I could check the progress of a video from other software.
I would be good also to know from OSC if the video has any flags set.

A good solution can be implement an info message
/vimix /[target] /info {string argument}
and vimix reply...

examples:
/vimix /[target] /info file (return absolute path of video file)
/vimix /[target] /info seek (return actual seek position)
/vimix /[target] /info speed (return actual speed value)
/vimix /[target] /info alpha (return actual alpha value)
/vimix /[target] /info angle (return actual angle value)
/vimix /[target] /info size (return actual size value)
and so on.. in this way vimix output an OSC message only when we ask something about a target and not for all loaded target.

[brunoherbelin]

Thanks for the suggestion! This indeed can become a simple and efficient mechanism for exchanging with vimix

It is implemented in Beta : please try and let me know if this works, what you suggest to improve it.

I added it to the documentation at https://github.com/brunoherbelin/vimix/wiki/Open-Sound-Control-API#messages-sent-by-vimix

[brunoherbelin]

all done in Beta (10abe99)

oscsend localhost 7000 /vimix/#0/get ss id type

returns the id and an interger code representing the type (faster to test than a string)
See wiki https://github.com/brunoherbelin/vimix/wiki/Open-Sound-Control-API#get--request-attribute-values-of-a-source

[lupin3rd]

Perfect, works fine.
Can i use id in target?
/vimix/IDSrc/alpha f 1.0

[brunoherbelin]

yep, if this can be useful!
Committed in Beta 0898b01

[lupin3rd]

Perfect, it works well and is very useful for having a secure way to interact with a source! It would be very useful now to have the unique ID also implemented in sendSourcesStatus, which currently only sends current/N, N/alpha, N/name.

[brunoherbelin]

sure, this makes sense ! Done in Beta

[brunoherbelin]

As a fun fact, if you launch two vimix instances, and set the input OSC port of instance A to the output OSC port of instance B, when you ask get to instance B, then instance A applies the properties to the same source ! a new way to sync two vimix sessions !