Sample of Unity app driving NightDriver over WiFi

[davepl]

Just a quick demo I did of a Unity surface being sent to the NIghtDriver Spectrum project over wifi.

Short-Scrolling.Sign.-.720WebShareName.mov

[rbergen]

I'm just noting that if anyone wants to reproduce this in the Spectrum configuration, it's necessary to set the INCOMING_WIFI_ENABLED define to 1 in the SPECTRUM block in globals.h. That does mean that the on-device web server won't come up any more, which means it can just as well be disabled.

[mikejohnau]

So I can get the Unity to throw video at both the spectrum and mesmeriser builds that I have. But have noticed a couple of issues.

Spectrum build is the standard M5stcikplus with 3 x 16x16 matrix.

Spectrum1.mov

Works ok..... Brightness is huge! I have turn the alpha in unity down to around 0.1 otherwise blindness, skin cancer and other light related issues arise. And the neighbours complain........ but the colours look ok but a it washed out

Is there a way to set the a brightness level in Unity hat actually works.

Then I threw it at my mesmerizer build ( a hardwired wrover kit). Chnaged the resolution i Unity to 64x32 and the IP address. It worked....I get video and movement... but a pink pacman??

Mesmeriser_washedout.mov

[heidepiek]

Could someone do an explanation for dummies. Have downloaded unity hub 3.6.1. Downloaded unity 2021.3.32f1.
Downloaded NightDriverUnity . But can't get it to work.
In unity I open project nightdriverunity, but then it stops for me. It can't find the ip address. The program itself gives it an ip address. Been trying to get this done for a few hours now, but throwing in the towel. 😟

Harrie

[mikejohnau]

Hi Harrie,
The first thing that you need to do is ensure that
#define INCOMING_WIFI_ENABLED 1 // Accepting incoming color data and commands
is enabled in globals.h when you build.

After that you shoud just be able to put your devices IP address into Unity and hit play depending on the ESP32 board that you have.

I found with my config that I get better performance by increasing the amount of buffers in globals.h to around 40 as well.

You could also have a play with VideoServer2.py in the Samples folder of the NightDriverStrip project. It also sends video to Mesmeriser and Spectrum.

[robertlipe]

Additionally, the IP addresses in them are hardcoded and not clearly marked as examples. So be careful to dodge that, Harrie.

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[mikejohnau]

2021.3.3211 Personal.. but I'm on MacOS..

[mikejohnau]

So let's clarify. VideoServer2.py gives you video on your build?
But Unity with the same settings, IP address, matrix height, matrix width.... doesn't work? lets not talk quality...does stuff change the matrix

[heidepiek]

Yes mike, videoserver2.py works:

py.dance.mp4

Unity i can`t get to work. I think a little incompetence on my part. Don't know exactly what to do with unity.

[heidepiek]

Thanks for your help mike, but for now i`m taking a break for this project. 👊

Greetz harrie

[mikejohnau]

I have just remembered that you also need to add
${unity_double_flags.build_flags}

to your environment build flags in platform.io

[mikejohnau]

So we can forget about the pink pacman....... Changed panels and all is good now. It looks like my original 64x32 matrix has developed a fault.

[heidepiek]

Does happen that the rgb is not connected in the right order in the hardware of the matrix. Also have a few matrices lying around that are not connected properly. You can use them but you have to change the order of the r g b in the smartmatrix library. I already had that once with the aurora project on a 64x64 matrix. But if you want to use two panels, thats weird looking.

This is aurora by jason coon on a 64x64 matrix
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wpPwLRDRy_e-BUn-FX8GWZmOtIP_DyUA/view?usp=sharing