FlyPT Mover

Happy to be of help. I'm sure that it will be fixed in the next release.

I am trying to use your UDP source, but I think I just don't get the concept.
What I did thus far:
-created a mechanical device to measure pose with potentiometers
-programmed an arduino to send out the pose over the com port as bytewise float values (6x 4 bytes)
-running bridges to create a serial to UDP server on 127.0.0.1:55556
-Configure a custom UDP source (address 127.0.0.1:55556) with 6 4-byte float values, with offsets of 0,4,8 etc. Transition detection just by having enough data.

Now when I press connect on my UDP source, it turns yellow, stays yellow, and all values stay at 0.

What could be the problem?

Use the IP of the PC with Mover in the Arduino.
127.0.0.1 is the address of the device, so you are sending from the Arduino to the Arduino.

The Arduino is connected via serial COM50 to the PC. The Serial to UDP bridge software as well as PTMover are running on the PC. Using the external address of the PC gives the same result.

@Avee , can you try some UDP receiver to see if you get the data?
Somthing like https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/udp-sender-reciever/9nblggh52bt0?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Yes I have been using that. I think there is something that I don't understand about the topology. When I try to connect as receiver only, it will try to open a socket on port 55556 itself, which doesn't work as the bridge is already using that. It will connect as a sender to 127.0.0.1:55556, but then I don't get any output from the bridge.

I am just sending raw bytes over the com port, no protocol or handshake. Just a stream of pose data. Not sure whether that is valid to forward that over UDP.

Version 3.4.2
Im having some issues with the Condor 2 profile. I have saved it many times but it always defaults to the top on my directs.

It may be due to the fact that they both just show as Condor 2 (udp) But the bottom is ground. Since you only get ground data on this one it. Not a big deal to click on these two but i always forget so it would be nice to have it working.

I built my 6DOF few years back and use the a proprietary commercial control board to control my linear servo.
Due to data format issues, I end up wrote my own interface program to convert/translate the game telemetry data into platform motion and send to control board through serial port.

Yesterday I saw Flypt-mover with many exciting features and I decide to give it a try.

I got stuck again with data format issue. My board is expect to read 32bit (4 bytes) single float data for each sway/surge/heave/pitch/roll/yaw. therefore, in my own program, if I need to output sway (range: -300 ~ 300) to my board. I need to do

byte[] swayBytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(float sway)

and send that swayBytes to my board together with other data through serial port.

It seems to me that Flypt-mover only support output in unsigned integer. I wonder if there any way I can make output to 32bit single float data so my board can read the data.

Thanks
Tony

Right now, I'm outputing the pose in double. But I can add float.


I can also add the option to output pose in measures here:


This avoids the use of the rig module, outputing the sum of the selected poses.

Will try to add it in the next release. Soon.

Wow, thanks so much for quick reply. This will definitely work for my situation.

I also have this strange situation here while experimenting control each actuator axis directly.
In the debug of serial output panel, I was able to get the reading from <PPoseHeave> but not from each <Axis #a>.

Please see my screenshot below, Thanks

I just realize that I do need to connect to serial port in order to have output debug for each axis

@pmvcda Would it be possible to add the support for joysticks to setup the shortcuts :

That way we could control the rig with a simple button box

It's there already.
Click the field to put it yellow, and press the desired joystick button instead of keyboard key

@pmvcda Thanks for your reply ! I tried again : in fact, we can't use the simucube buttons, but I confirm we can use buttons from an arduino button box...
If you have time to check why it doesn't work with the simucube...

I do not have any buttons on my Simcube (OSW) set up but I do have eight other controllers on my motion rig. I tested each of them and they work with Mover.
Thrustmaster Warthog (No Target, test both stick and throttle)
8 speed shifter (DIY Thingiverse)
Thrustmaster Cougar Throttle
Thrustmaster Cougar MFD (Three of them)
Fanatec BMW Wheel (Teensy LC Mod)

Could be something is odd about the SimuCube controller? I should plug some buttons into mine one of these days.

Yeah I guess it comes from the simucube but that's odd...
bad thing is that all the dashboard is plugged on the simucube...

Are all the buttons working as DX input otherwise?

just checked : no :/
windows shows only about 16 buttons, that aren't mine...

Lets take this to PM, as it is not Mover related