#1

Hi all,

I’m trying to get serialosc up and running on Ubuntu 15.04.

I’ve tried both the version from artfwo’s PPA and installing from source as per instructions here: http://monome.org/docs/linux/

When I run serialoscd the console freezes and I assume the program hen starts waiting for me to attach a monome.

When I attach my monome it starts up (light pattern) but nothing is displayed about the connected monome by serialosc. Also upon removing it nothing is left in my .config/serialosc folder.

Does serialosc leave any logs anywhere for me to peruse?

Has it connected monome and just not told me about it? How do I find out what port it’s on?

serialosc-detector does show that I have a monome connected on /dev/ttyUSB0/

#2

serialoscd freezes because it’s a daemon. it should be run at startup in the background.

you can check if it’s running the same as other processes-- this should work:

ps ax | grep serialosc

to find out what port it is on, you have to query the serialosc server. what language/environment/etc are you using?

http://monome.org/docs/osc

for example. if you have an app listening to port 12222

send to 12002: /serialosc/list localhost 12222

and you’ll get a device list returned to port 12222

#3

Ah thanks for your prompt response tehn.

After a little playing I discovered that starting serialoscd as root with sudo serialoscd does show messages like this when monomes are connected:
serialosc [a40h-001]: connected, server running on port 18174

I can then set the port/prefix it’s operating on and start using it as normal.

It seems that neither installing 1.4 from source or version 1.3… from the PPA results in a serialosc service being registered though. ps ax | grep serialosc doesn’t show any processes and service --status-all has no serialosc entry.

I’m also unable to get a response to any messages sent to serialosc, e.g. /serialosc/list 12345 does not result in messages being sent back to port 12345.

I’ve tried communicating with the device using send_osc/dump_osc command line tools and Overtone/Clojure.