How to write a "ping" function?

Community Usage questions
1

When my live coding setup launches, it needs to get a message from the OSC controller (to know where to send updates).

Currently, I've put a button in the OSC session to send /ping, and I prompt for it during the live-coding startup sequence.

I'd like Open Stage to send /ping periodically, without intervention from me. This would require scheduling (pause between sends, maybe every 5-10 seconds? or until I send a handshake message back).

This didn't leap out of the Open Stage references at me... any tips?

hjh

2

hi,

maybe search in this forum for the word settimeout
cheers

3

If you're already using a custom module, this (old) reply applies : How to send a message periodically & other questions - #2 by jean-emmanuel

Otherwise a periodic action can be scheduled using javascript's setInterval function from any widget's onCreate script: (see Scripting - Open Stage Control)

setInterval(()=>{
  send('127.0.0.1:5555', '/ping')
}, 5000 /* ms */)
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Great, thanks! Will look into that over my winter holiday.

hjh