Recent grid 128 - no LEDs lighting - Mac OS 10.13.2

Monome
#1

I’ve just bought a second hand grid - I know from the seller it was working when it left however I’m not getting LEDs lighting

I’ve connected it to Max - I can see the grid - all the buttons generate appropriate messages as expected

when I plug it in I get a quick flash of LEDS at the top left corner but it doesn’t go further

Any thoughts - am I doing something wrong? is there anything I can look at inside ?

(edit - running off one of the main USB ports on a 2015 mac book pro - running High Sierra 10.13.2

#2

Have you installed serialosc? You need that for the monome and computer to talk to each other.

Edit - if you’re seeing button presses in Max you likely have - sorry!

#3

yeah - serialosc working - I’ve got it recognising the device and button presses being recognised

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#4

if you get the LED blip at the beginning it suggests the LEDs are working.

which os version are you on?

have you tried the monome max package? it has a grid_test patch (though yours looks good at first glance)

#5

just added that to my post - 10.13.2 on a 2015 MacBook pro

edit - the grid test works much as mine does!

#6

ok more weirdness - plugged it into my rPi/pisound norns - and it DOES work - I recognise that pattern - its the foulplay UI!!! (it also promptly crashed - but there was no screen plugged in and I’m sure thetechnobear said something about grids not working properly - debugging one thing at a time…)

So something on my Mac - I realise I’m on an older high sierra - I’m trying the combo update to 10.13.4 which someone on another thread (which I guess this one should merge with) says is working for them

#7

updated - installed 10.13.4 - no difference

remove a bunch if kexts (audio and filesystem stuff) - no difference

Serialosc is the only thing that has it open

eight:Library markwilliamson$ lsof | grep usbserial
serialosc 987 markwilliamson 3u CHR 21,6 0t424 715 /dev/tty.usbserial-m1000318

serialosc itself has a whole bunch of things open including, possibly interestingly, /dev/null

at a loss what to poke at now - feels like time to look at source code see what’s missing but not sure where to start on that

#8

ok - serialosc uses a UDP port listening on serialosc - could it be weird binding caused by me messing about with networking at somepoint? which would explain messages coming out but not in - following that line of reasoning for a bit

edit - not this - have been talking to the grid using aiosc in python

incoming message from ('127.0.0.1', 12002): /serialosc/device ('m1000318', 'monome 128', 14008)
incoming message from ('127.0.0.1', 14008): /sys/id ('m1000318',)
incoming message from ('127.0.0.1', 14008): /sys/size (16, 8)
incoming message from ('127.0.0.1', 14008): /sys/host ('127.0.0.1',)
incoming message from ('127.0.0.1', 14008): /sys/port (13288,)
incoming message from ('127.0.0.1', 14008): /sys/prefix ('/monome',)
incoming message from ('127.0.0.1', 14008): /sys/size (16, 8)
incoming message from ('127.0.0.1', 14008): /sys/rotation (0,)

sending it a direct /grid/led/set,1,1,1 does not do anything even though it responds to /sys/info

#9

OH!

sent /monome/grid/led/level/all

and it worked - should it have a prefix? edit - yes it should and I’m using that in max too. hmm - weird

ok - this works - but the bpatcher serialosc does not!! ok - feels like i’m getting closer.

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it’s not something stupid like the name of the grid is “monome 128” with a space in it ? (but you don’t seem to be able to change that so I’m guessing not)

#10

fwiw - the Monome Home patch has been super helpful to me in debugging.

Also test-grid.maxpat which is here with serialosc.maxpat I think

#11

Ah. That looks very useful. Thank you

#12

ok - it seems to be because it opens serialosc from BEAP which for whatever reason isn’t working with my grid

those two that @okyeron posted both work for me!

Now struggling to stop it loading it from BEAP - it picks that one even if I have the one from serialosc.maxpat loaded. scratches head

#13

ok mystified - I’ve got a few bits working by hacking in the serialosc posted above.

Non of the max for live devices work from the ableton pack - and yet if I go into them they are connecting and if I hack in a message to set an LED they seem to work. So all odd - I’m connecting to it, get messages but somehow all the max for live devices and most of the max patches I have are somehow not sending the right messages to light LEDs…

It feels like the grid is in some odd mode or something is changed from factory settings - I’m not sure that that is a thing though.

anyone else any thoughts?

#14

i had to re-install my serialosc from monome site to get it to be recognized by serialosc patches in BEAP [windows] I’ve abadoned mac

#15

Maybe you have mutiple serialosc binaries installed?

I don’t remember now what I used to find the duplicates, but I think I had a similar problem on RasPi.

#16

hmmm possibly - oddly after closing everything and restating - max for live devices working - so progress!

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