New plugins: Marantz Receiver, SoundMixerEx, Serial Dimmer

[dexter98]

I hereby post 3 new plugins:

* Marantz SR Receiver control
Allows you to do basic control (power, volume (relative and absolute), mute etc etc) of your Marantz SR-series Receiver (with a serial port). No events are generated by this plugin. It supports both direct control through a serial port or control via my MarantzControl application (user selectable).

* SoundMixerEx
This plugin allows you to setup virtually ANY slider and on/off switch (eg mute, digital out on/off) on one or more sound cards. Multiple controls can be controlled on multiple sound cards through the same plugin. I personally use this plugin to switch on/off the 'digital out only' feature on my Audigy to be able to output (analog) sound, even when pass-through is active (which normally blocks any sound output other than the DD/DTS source).

* SerialDimmer
Simple plugin I wrote to control my homebrew serial controlled dimmer. Not very usefull, since I haven't published the firmware of this dimmer (and the dimmer is crappy anyway), but the concept might be interesting for other serial controlled dimmers, such as Semitone Crystal/Diamond.

[AlexW]

Hi,
great to see someone trying to build a mixer control ... I've been searching one for months... But I've a problem using it...

Error while configuring: %s Sound Mixer Ex: No device/control selected
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Programme\-= Video =-\EventGhost\eg\MainFrame\__init__.py", line 853, in OnCmdNewAction
eg.Greenlet(UndoableTasks.NewAction().Do).switch(self.document, action)
File "C:\Programme\-= Video =-\EventGhost\eg\UndoableTasks.py", line 253, in Do
if not CmdConfigure().Do(item, True):
File "C:\Programme\-= Video =-\EventGhost\eg\UndoableTasks.py", line 549, in Do
newArgs = gr.switch(*item.args)
File "C:\Programme\-= Video =-\EventGhost\plugins\SoundMixerEx\__init__.py", line 517, in Configure
treeCtrl = self.plugin.GetTree(panel, ("Fader", "Slider"), deviceId, controlId)
File "C:\Programme\-= Video =-\EventGhost\plugins\SoundMixerEx\__init__.py", line 403, in GetTree
mixerItem = treeCtrl.AddRoot(mixer)
File "wx\_controls.pyc", line 5404, in AddRoot
wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "parent.IsOk() || !(HTREEITEM)::SendMessageW((((HWND)GetHWND())), (0x1100 + 10), (WPARAM)(0x0000), (LPARAM)(HTREEITEM)(0))" failed at ..\..\src\msw\treectrl.cpp(1492) in wxTreeCtrl::DoInsertAfter(): can't have more than one root in the tree

Seems that no device is selected... but i didn't find any config possibility?!
Could you tell me where I have to select the devices?

Although great work.. keep it up!

Alex

[dexter98]

Hey, thanks for your reply

Hmmmmm...... problem is NOT caused by a non-selected contol (obviously I test for that), but with multiple soundcards or sounddevices in your PC, which I wasn't able to test in my own PC..... yet :s

Although actually logical, documentation of wx does not state clearly that an treectrl can only have ONE root item.


Anyway, problem should be solved now. Control can be selected in a tree which shows all your available controls on all your available sound cars.

Please let me know if this fixed your problem. Copy this .py file over the original one in the SoundMixerEx directory.

[AlexW]

Hi
thx a lot... it works great now. I can select the slider I want to adjust and all sound cards are available in the dropdown.

Nice work!

Alex

[stisev]

Not much to add, but very nice plugin.

Even with BitMonster temporarily away, I'm glad to see you guys are carrying his tradition.

[Bartman]

Does the SoundMixer PlugIn work under Vista and XP?
Do you have SVN access to the EG repository?
The Mixer definetly needed an Update. Now someone needs to make a decent keyboard plugin.

[Bitmonster]

Very nice work.

I have added you to the "Plugin Developer" group, so you can create topics in the Plugin forum now. I would suggest to start two new topics for the SoundMixerEx and Marantz plugin.

If you have a sourceforge account, I can give you SVN write access.

[stisev]

Does the SoundMixer PlugIn work under Vista and XP?
Do you have SVN access to the EG repository?
The Mixer definetly needed an Update. Now someone needs to make a decent keyboard plugin.

It works in XP, as far I can tell.

Doesn't EG already have a keyboard plugin?

[dexter98]

Does the SoundMixer PlugIn work under Vista and XP?
Do you have SVN access to the EG repository?
The Mixer definetly needed an Update. Now someone needs to make a decent keyboard plugin.

I've only tested it under XP and I'm quite sure it does NOT work under Vista, since it doesn't use the 'VistaVolume.dll'.
This dll does not (unfortunately) expose enough functions to do this and I have no means to test it since I'm not a Vista user.

I currently don't have access to the EG repository.

[dexter98]

Very nice work.
I have added you to the "Plugin Developer" group, so you can create topics in the Plugin forum now. I would suggest to start two new topics for the SoundMixerEx and Marantz plugin.
If you have a sourceforge account, I can give you SVN write access.

Thanks
I'll open 2 new topics on it, so we can improve and extend these plugins.
I'll also open a sourceforge account, so I can put it into the SVN.

I'm also looking into making an open source project of the dimmer hardware and firmware. Maybe I switch to the Semitone dimmer project and include the protocol in the dimmer plugin.

[Bartman]

Tell Bitmonster or me if you have created the SF account.
I will boot Vista sometime today and tell what happens.