DIY Head Tracker For A Tenner

Egg90

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After coming back from a break from Elite and asking the stupid settings config question a couple of pages back, I've got my EDTracker working great again, with one annoying issue however.

I used to have some Velcro on my headphones and also on a thick Alice band for when I'm using speakers, and I could switch the EDTracker back and forth no problem. Now I've changed headphones from Sony MDR-XD200 to Kingston HyperX Cloud and they seem to mess with the Mag settings. When I look down it also turns left and when I look up it also turns right.
I've got around this problem by doing the Mag calibration while the EDTracker is attached to the headphones which was a little awkward hehe, but now I can't use the Alice band as the same issue occurs.
The Sony's were mostly plastic with 40mm drivers while the Kingston's are mostly metal with 53mm drivers, so I'm guessing this difference pushes some threshold in the EDTracker's Mag detection?
Is this a known issue with some headphones?
Being able to load different Mag calibrations from the UI would be awesome but it doesn't look like this is possible.
 

amadeus1171

amadeus1171
brumster said:
Technically yes, but it wouldn't make much difference which way round things were (camera on head or camera on monitor) and I'd have thought people would prefer to minimise the amount of bobbins on their head... :) unless I'm missing some advantage to having the camera "user-side".... :) ?
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It would move the processing from the computer to the module and wouldn't require the user to buy/install an extra camera. All the would need is a target that may come with the unit or printed out. And would would head-view game play look like? :-D
 
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Cataclysm72

Cataclysm72
amadeus1171 said:
It would move the processing from the computer to the module and wouldn't require the user to buy/install an extra camera. All the would need is a target that may come with the unit or printed out. And would would head-view game play look like? :-D
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It will look awesome :x:x

[video=youtube;6Pts_sotjMA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pts_sotjMA[/video]
 

Draven Darken

Draven Darken
I used the EDTracker Pro on the Mac version of Elite: Dangerous for some time. At the time I had also tried to come up with a way to use OpenTrack to allow it to work in other Mac games, but that appeared to be a dead end.

After a few months away from ED entirely (due to the state of the Mac client), I have just bitten the bullet and obtained a gaming Windows PC. I was thinking that I might also want to order a TrackIR, especially for use in games other than ED. However, I decided to give OpenTrack another look, and thank goodness I did, because the difference between the usability of that on the PC vs. the Mac is night and day ... it is easy to see which environment the makers thereof are most interested in! That, combined with having the EDTracker utility native to my OS now, has multiplied the utility and usefulness of my EDTracker Pro by at least 1000%, and after experiencing great results with the EDTracker in both X-Plane 10 and Euro Truck Simulator 2 over the weekend, I now realize that I have no need whatsoever for any other head tracking solution after all.

I'd already thought the EDTracker Pro was worth the money before, even just in ED on the Mac. But now that I am gaming in Windows, it is worth its weight in gold, especially when combined with OpenTrack. Highly, highly recommended.
 

QuozL

QuozL
wstephenson said:
I'm going to be quite torn when I finally get a Vive - it will feel unfair to relegate my EDTracker to gathering dust on the shelf.
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My Vive gets here on Friday, I have decided that my EdTracker will be donated to another player in my guild. Will have to figure out a way for them to battle for it :)
 

pocketmoon

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pssst.... anyone with a Pro that wants to test some beta firmware pm me :)

Aim of update is to improve stability, reduce need to autobias/recenter and make tracking more resilient. Overall a much more 'pick up and play' experience.

Ta ta

Rob / pocketmoon / EDTracker dude
 

Vulcan24v

Vulcan24v
I seem to have a bit of an issue with EDTracker Pro.
I originally set it up with a shortcut in the windows 10 startup folder so that it started with windows and ran in the system tray without popping up the gui. I could then access it at any time to calibrate if necessary.
Today I start my PC and I get the error as shown in the pic below, EDTracker does not have an icon in the system tray and I can't find a running process in the task manager. When I check the windows startup folder the icon for the EDTracker shortcut is not in there....

Any ideas guys?


 

brumster

brumster
Hmmmm <rubs chins> I'm a bit lost then I'm afraid! If you can't see the process listed anywhere (EDTrackerPro.exe under "Processes") then I can only suggest it's some weird Windows 10 issue or some file locking thing. I'll mention it to Rob in case he's seen it.
 

Vulcan24v

Vulcan24v
Cheers it's stopping me actually using it as I can't launch it (as it says it's already running) but can't open the gui as there isn't a tray icon. Exasperating.....
 

pocketmoon

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No file locking. The UI looks to see how many copies of EDTrackerPro.exe are running and if it's more than 2 it throws the error and quits.
So the only cause I can think of is if the UI is being started twice at the same time. I'll have a play with Windows 10 and see if I can reproduce this issue.

Cheers,

Rob
 

Vulcan24v

Vulcan24v
I've done a bit of digging with this and I found that EDTracker Pro UI was running in the list of Startup apps in the tab in the task manager. I remember putting a shortcut in the startup folder of Windows 10 located at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Now this seemed to work fine until this morning when I got the error and issue stated and on looking in there the shortcut was gone... very odd. After further research it seems that Windows 10 has a "shell startup folder" located at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup and on looking in there lo and behold there's my shortcut.
I don't remember ever putting it in there (basically because I was unaware of it's existence) so there you go, how it got there I can't say but I have now deleted it.
I have downloaded UIPro2.1 and after disabling the entry in the startup list and a full restart it now runs perfectly.

Why it should cause this issue of EDTracker thinking that a extra instance was running is beyond me but I have solved my problem, hopefully this might help anyone else who has any similar problem in the future.
 

Draven Darken

Draven Darken
brumster said:
Are you listing processes from all users - did someone else run it as Administrator under a different user account maybe?
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How does the software detect if there is an existing instance of the process? Via actually looking at the process list, or perhaps by setting a "running" flag value in the registry or some other common location which is later unset during the process shutdown? If the latter, I wonder if a sudden system shutdown, e.g. power failure, or process crash might have left that flag set to the "running" state? (This springs to mind because we occasionally have the same sort of problem with a process I work with at my job, and the latter is the source of that issue.)

Edit: ninja-ed!
 
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Gorgoth

Gorgoth
is there a way to use 2 edtrackers at the same time? I am using one for headtracking and want to place a second one on my gamecontroller or on my foot for thruster controll
 
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