that worked for me!
Orac is working fine. just going to try the PD stuff next
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I just tried the PD patches and neither seem to work (this is on p3+)
It just stays at the āLauchā¦ SimplePdā page, nothing i press makes it do anything
5secs of 3 buttons does return me to the sidekick menu
this is awsome everything works now. i am using a tft screen which is 320 x 240 so everything is a bit small where would i look to change this and recompile
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thanks again
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What you should be able to do is :
Just change NuiLite to have a scale factor set during initDisplay
The just recompile nuilite
Then copy libnuilite.so to where orac/mec and sidekick are installed. (In use/local)
This way you donāt have to rebuild everything and start copying every about 
Later I could add scale to the nuilite api to make it part of programming api
Btw @okyeron, @jedgar
The maiden restart is also done in 0.91
I plan to get OTC running on the organelle-m. ( yet another project on my list!)
Once Iāve done that it would be fairly straightforward (*) for me to get OTC working on Diy Norns & fates.
canāt be done on factory norns as it doesnāt have a hdmi 
donāt think thereās is a solution to that ? ( usb display?)
Anyway, unfortunately needs to work itās way up my todo list.
āāāā
(*) The core of install will be similar for organelle-m with regards to setup/packages.
But I need to interface to the NuiLite for the norns display, buttons encoder - either by adding a python binding or an OSC interface into sidekick.
Both options are quite attractive for app developers who want an alternative to C++ / PureData
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hi, would it be ok for you too see if the pd patches run on your p3+?
Cheers
As above you need to copy the new libnuilite.so into the patch directory - Iāll update patchstorage when I get time.
oops, sorry, didnāt see that comment 
no, worries
ok, Ive updated the demos on patchstorage.
also now polypd defaults to some better values at start upā¦
this was required for 3-enc norns, since you have no ability to change volume (as its on enc-4)
can anyone let me know if they still have issues - otherwise, I can put my Fates back together with the rPI4
OK - I went through and installed the new files, and itās working with my 3b+! I have 4 encoders, but it boots into the 3 encoder modeā¦ I have never had anything running that I could test my 4th encoder withā¦ and I added it after I built my fates. Should I pull it apart and check the soldering, or is there something in software I could try?
by default the FATES image support 3-encoders, you need some magic incantations to get the 4th encoder working
something like:
sudo dtc -W no-unit_address_vs_reg -@ -I dts -O dtb -o /boot/overlays/fates-buttons-4encoders.dtbo /home/we/fates/overlays/fates1.7-buttons-4encoders-overlay.dtsthen edit /boot/config.txt ? (to switch to using this dtbo)
but @okyeron can confirm with the current rPI3 image whats needed
no need to recompile the dts file.
just change /boot/config.txt
comment out the first one, uncomment the second
# Buttons and encoders
dtoverlay=fates-buttons-encoders
# Alternate overlay for 4 encoders
#dtoverlay=fates-buttons-4encoders
Iāll need to check the image - perhaps change it to 4 encoder as default
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Will this result in the FATES running 3 encoders on the Norns and 4 for Orac?
Well that totally did it!
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Working my way through the youtube tutorial. Fates is up and running, and Iām trying to edit the pure-data. Iām using windows 10 with powershell - I ran ssh -Y we@norns.local, stopped sidekick, and tried to run /usr/local/sidekick/sidekick while holding the button, and get
Sidekick launch
launch : SimplePd
xprop: unable to open display āā
pd running : cd ā./patches/SimplePdā; pd -nogui -rt -audiobuf 4 -alsamidi main.pd &
opened alsa client 128 in:1 out:1
using framebuffer /dev/fb1
Connection failed (Invalid argument)
No pure-data mirrored on my desktop āas if by magicā. Probably because Iām using windows - any ideas what to try?
Norns will ignore the 4th encoder.
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so windows does not include an xserver, youāll need to install one - something like xming, vcxsrv, cygwin x
however, its a very long time since I last did that (as I use a mac for development), so its probably worth asking on a new topic, on whats available for free and is easy to install. e.g. perhaps the windows 10 ubuntu subsystem can be used these days?
an alternative is we setup a VNC server on norns, we did this on the Organelle, and users really loved it - as vnc is a lot simpler for users to setup on the desktops esp. on windows
A quick note - I learned the other day that the norns hardware (or the system image) has the raspi-config systemd unit masked. Not sure this will matter or not for VNC setup
hey @okyeron @TheTechnobear this is great.
I wonder if it could work with a ssd1306 oled display, but anyway that would require tweaks on the FATES board, and maybe a totally different ui display pd lib. I donāt think it would just work with NuiLite?
Itās just that I think this would be nicer with a smaller case/screen. Seems like a waste of space such big screen, at least running ORAC.
Cheers!