Ignoring Duplicate Events

[johnz1]

Hello

I am using one of these super cheap USB rollup drum pads to trigger sound clips on a soundboard: http://www.amazon.com/Roll-Drum-Free-Pl ... B000YMNZF6

The Generic HID plugin is used for EG to capture events from the device. The problem is that every time any of the pads are hit, two identical events are created. The result is that two sounds are played back-to-back when you hit the pad just one time.

Is there any way to ignore duplicate events when they come in simultaneously (or within a fraction of a second)?


This is for EventGhost 0.4.1.r1669 (latest release) on Windows 7 Pro SP1. I put this in the General Support forum because I think the plugin is working fine. I am assuming that what I need is a software workaround for a hardware issue on a cheap piece of hardware.

Thank you

[Pako]

This is a quite simple task:
1.) Create a macro as shown below:

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2.) Into the Python Script action copy the following code:

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timeout = 0.1
if not "lastEventTime" in eg.globals.__dict__:
    eg.globals.lastEventTime = {}
let = eg.globals.lastEventTime
et = eg.event.time
ees = eg.event.string 
if ees in let:
    if et - let[ees] > timeout:
        let[ees] = et                    # Set variable
    else:
        #print "Event %s ignored" % ees
        eg.event.skipEvent = True        # Ignore event (rapid sequence)
else:
    let[ees] = et                        # Set variable

3.) The constant timeout adjust as needed
4.) This macro put in your configuration tree as high as possible.

That's it. Other macros (with some HID events) that you use, you can leave unchanged.


Note: Maybe it will be a glitch, that event payload values ÔÇïÔÇïare ignored. In this case it will be necessary to modify it.

Pako

[Livin]

Pako, any chance you could make this into an Eventghost built-in Action or a plugin?

[skribb]

I don't understand where to put the actual Action in the macro....

EDIT: following this at least made more sense to my noob brain and i seem to have made it work:
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