ED Tracker 2.9 (Friday 13th)

n0ahg · Jun 20, 2014

Deepnoizer said:
Totally agree with you, giving this product ability to talk to FaceTrackNOIR would also nail support for this for Arma3 and few others hassle free !

Opentrack is a multi-platform fork of FacetrackNoIR and supports joystick as input. Unfortunately it doesn't really seem to have a proper page yet although you can get binaries here https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack and it already supports E: D! furaX49 appears to have ported their hatire plugin so it's all still active.

Voz · Jun 20, 2014

YAAAAHHOOOOOOOO!!!

Calibration went very smoothly - the head in the UI is responding perfectly to me wagging my head around and then in-game I'm now up and running and looking around nicely! Thanks for the help, guidance, idea etc etc.

Demonmaker said:
Yea, opening up controllers, it's in there and when I select configure and move the board, you can see the cross move.
One would expect E D to see this with no issue, but it's not binding

I had this issue and found that by having the UI running on my last attempt the game then found it fine. Coincidence or not I don't know but try it.

timbow · Jun 20, 2014

brumster said:
I can't remember who copied who's coursework I just remember a Nissan Micra... oh god...

Quality motor if you ask me, lovely in its slightly yellowed white paint.

Lee Storm · Jun 20, 2014

Voz said:
YAAAAHHOOOOOOOO!!!

Calibration went very smoothly - the head in the UI is responding perfectly to me wagging my head around and then in-game I'm now up and running and looking around nicely! Thanks for the help, guidance, idea etc etc.

I had this issue and found that by having the UI running on my last attempt the game then found it fine. Coincidence or not I don't know but try it.

Cheers voz, I'm still banging around with it, I'll give that a go.

Voz · Jun 20, 2014

Demonmaker said:
Cheers voz, I'm still banging around with it, I'll give that a go.

Interestingly, next time in the game and my bindings have all gone and I had to redo everything (yes I forgot to do a backup).

ubermick · Jun 20, 2014

ubermick said:
Oooh, nice one. My boards just arrived Rob (cheers mate, safe and sound!) so will put one together after the Italy match, and give this a go.

Does the Calibration Utility run without issues now, or do some of us still have to run it through Processing 2?

Well, after finally getting some time to solder it all up, the answer is, alas, no. Just like the previous release, the UI is just giving me a blank white screen. With the 32 bit version, I do get a little window in the top left saying "Scan for EDTracker..." but nothing beyond that. (And yep, have uploaded the calibration sketch to the unit)

Lee Storm · Jun 20, 2014

Voz said:
Interestingly, next time in the game and my bindings have all gone and I had to redo everything (yes I forgot to do a backup).

strangely enough, that's just happened to me, but this time round the EDTracker was recognised....finally.

Gotta say, its a lovely feeling. best sub £20 ever spent on the PC.
Thanks EDTracker team.

oh and here's a pic of the box (needs a bit of cleanup still).....Thanks to my 5yr old and his addiction to Lego

Lasse B. · Jun 21, 2014

pocketmoon said:
Lasse B. said:

After like an hour of playing the tracker did a full 180° again when I looked slightly to the right. I have it set up with the USB plug to the left, if that is of any help.

Click to expand...

Found the bug. Fix soon

Not wanting to be impatient, but how soon is "soon"? Or was it "soon™"?

pocketmoon · Jun 21, 2014

Lasse B. said:
Not wanting to be impatient, but how soon is "soon"? Or was it "soon™"?

Today

Iain M Norman · Jun 21, 2014

Dan sent me built unit.

I installed beta IDE for drivers.

Plugged in fine, got leonardo and edtracker drivers load up.

Works great in control panel => Game controllers

Works in ED.

The only thing that doesn't work is the UI. Just an empty white canvas in 32 bit and same in 64 with a "scan for ed tracker" black window.

In actual fact there's 3 little black windows.

wergor · Jun 21, 2014

ubermick said:
Well, after finally getting some time to solder it all up, the answer is, alas, no. Just like the previous release, the UI is just giving me a blank white screen. With the 32 bit version, I do get a little window in the top left saying "Scan for EDTracker..." but nothing beyond that. (And yep, have uploaded the calibration sketch to the unit)

i had this a few times after flashing the calibration sketch. un-/replugging the edtracker and restarting the edtrackerutil helped (but i guess you already tried that)

pocketmoon · Jun 21, 2014

ubermick said:
Well, after finally getting some time to solder it all up, the answer is, alas, no. Just like the previous release, the UI is just giving me a blank white screen. With the 32 bit version, I do get a little window in the top left saying "Scan for EDTracker..." but nothing beyond that. (And yep, have uploaded the calibration sketch to the unit)

Quick diagnostic check - if you load run the Arduino UI and open the serial monitor and then send a V, do you get any output ?

Voz · Jun 21, 2014

Here's my finished box. It's an old battery&speaker box out of some toy or other that I found in my 'bits' cupboard. Some knife work, sticker pads and final electric tape and it's nice and secure.

As to the mappings going missing - my fault. I forgot that I had re-installed due to the server authentication change so files had been over-written. All back and working fine now (and I've taken backups).

Zima · Jun 21, 2014

Following the processing tutorial..it works! But we need and option to write manually the Drift comp.

Iain M Norman · Jun 21, 2014

Iain M Norman said:
Dan sent me built unit.

I installed beta IDE for drivers.

Plugged in fine, got leonardo and edtracker drivers load up.

Works great in control panel => Game controllers

Works in ED.

The only thing that doesn't work is the UI. Just an empty white canvas in 32 bit and same in 64 with a "scan for ed tracker" black window.

In actual fact there's 3 little black windows.

I've hacked it back together using processing.

Is there a way to edit the exponential curve. I have my monitor quite high and so don't have that far to move my head up without getting neck ache. Need to be multiplied a bit more, anything in the util I'm not finding or need to edit the sketch?

Lasse B. · Jun 21, 2014

In the EDTrackerII sketch, I changed

Code:

float xScale = 4.0;
float yScale = 4.0;
float zScale = 4.0;

to

Code:

float xScale = 6.0;
float yScale = 6.0;
float zScale = 6.0;

That is for linear scaling. You can do similar changes to exponential scaling, too.

Dead Fred · Jun 21, 2014

After you use the UI you need to check the lights on the unit to see if they are still flashing normally.
I find that after using the tracker sketch in the UI. I need to unplug the unit and give it the normal 10-15 seconds to start tracking again and flashing normally.

Also going through a USB hub can do weird stuff.

I don't know if that helps anyone or not.

Sooon...

pocketmoon · Jun 22, 2014

pocketmoon said:
Today

Long play drift fix uploaded to github

https://github.com/pocketmoon/EDTracker2

CaptainKremmen · Jun 22, 2014

pocketmoon said:
Long play drift fix uploaded to github

https://github.com/pocketmoon/EDTracker2

You little ripper. Well done!

Lasse B. · Jun 22, 2014

pocketmoon said:
Long play drift fix uploaded to github

https://github.com/pocketmoon/EDTracker2

Thanks!