OSC message when deck has finished loading

[mfo]

Is there any OSC message that Resolume sends once its initialisation (and deck loading!) is done?

background is: if another app sends OSC values (i.e. from a sin curve, so new values constantly), Resolume gets totally jammed up while its initialisation. hence i would wait with sending until Resolume tells me it is ready.

[Joris]

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There is no official OSC message for this.

But I think Ravensc's 'Enter' app gives the user a headsup while a deck is loading. So he must have found a way to hack this in.

Maybe he can help you?

[Zoltán]

indeed,

there is no standard way I found to detect if startup loading has finished,
but deck loading has is own pattern even if you try to load the same deck as loaded.

you can listen for the last (always empty) decks' eg. deck5/select message, but you have to know the deck count for this.
you will always have an empty deck named "empty", you can look for the name also.

[mfo]

hm, interesting approach. does it mean i have to start that deck "empty" before playing my show, or is "empty/select" message being sent any way as it is the last deck?
thanks for the info!

joris, this is maybe something for an improvements-list for the new version of resolume?! have it sending some OSC status messages like: started, initializing, ready, loading deck, finished loading deck, etc.

[Zoltán]

resolume will open an empty deck always for you at the last position on composition open

you can try sending /deck1/select int 1
messages every 5secs or so when starting resolume

[Oaktown]

Here is another potential approach:

Add one column in the deck that your composition loads
Add a clip in layer 1
Select the option "Trigger first clip when composition has loaded"
Save your comp

Now, when you start your comp, Resolume will start broadcasting OSC strings on the send port and as soon as you get the following string: /layer1/clip1/connect : <OSCVal i 0> you would know that Resolume is ready to go.

I haven't had a chance to test it with a controller but I've been looking at all the info Resolume sends when it starts using OSCTestApp and this seems to be consistent.