I've made my processing sketch show up on the list of destinations, and I just wanted to share my little hack with you...

I was spending a lot of time looking at different java implementations zeroConf/ahavi/bonjour/mDNS/dns-ds (so many names, damn you trademarks!) - many of them were abandoned.

- but in the terminal i did this: man mDNS

and found out i could just let my processing sketch fire a shell command in it's setup.

import java.io.*;

void setup()
{
    String[] params = {
    "/usr/bin/mDNS", "-R", "\"Oles fine service\"", "_osc._udp", ".", "10000"
  };

  exec(params);
}

- but why is it that the iOS client does not show my custom string for the service?

an ip/portnumber combo doesn't make much sense to my experience lab users....

best / ole

it university of copenhagen
recoil performance group

Yes, you can automatically route each client to a different port. The process would be:

1. Your server scans for instances of Control running on the wifi network using Bonjour / Zeroconf (see http://jmdns.sourceforge.net/)

2. When it finds an instance, it sends the /control/pushDestination msg to that device. This allows you both to specify an IP (which will be the same for all instances) and a port (which will be different for each instance).

3. You can then dynamically create interfaces depending on which parameters a client is controlling. Alternatively everyone could use the same controls just routed differently (this would be easier).

This page will probably help you:

http://charlie-roberts.com/Control/?page_id=297

... and you might also want to check out this blog entry:

http://charlie-roberts.com/Control/?p=292

Let me know how it goes! - Charlie

New to the forums, very excited about the potential of Control in my digital art-making. I have an idea for a project, trying to figure out how feasible it is.

I'd like to allow multiple clients (smartphone, tablet) to simultaneously connect to an OSC server running real-time visual software. The software has dozens of exposed parameters that can be controlled via OSC/MIDI.

Here's the tricky bit - I'd like to set it up so that each new client is automatically filtered (or directed) to a different set of parameters, so there is no overlap between multiple clients. This requires that the server is somehow aware of the uniqueness of each client connecting to it.

Is it possible to:
A. automatically route each new client to a new (open) server port upon connection
or
B. filter incoming messages by client if they are coming in on the same port

Right now I'm using Processing on the server end, though PD is also an option.

Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks!
j e f f