Comments on: mtXcontrol

By: tobi

tobi — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:28:12 +0000

Hm don’t have v3.0 yet so no chance to test. I’m not sure if it 100% backwards compatible…

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:46:01 +0000

Has anyone gotten this to work with v3.0 Rainbowduino hardware? I can successfully flash the Rainbowduino, Mtxcontrol finds the board ok and I see the rx/tx lights light up when I send activity to the board, but the lights do not light up. The only thing I can get working with this 3.0 board is the included examples that come with the stock 3.0 firmware. Ideas?

By: michael shiloh

michael shiloh — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:03:23 +0000

When I try to run mtXcontrol, I am told:

Cannot launch “mtXcontrol”
No compatible version of Java 1.6* is available

However, I am able to run Processing and Arduino fine.

Why does mtXcontrol require a version of Java that Processing does not require?

The reason I ask is that I’m running on a PPC (MacOS 10.5.8) and Java 1.6 does not seem to be available for this computer.

By: tobi

tobi — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:21:41 +0000

hey Rene – goto menubar -> Tool -> create Font and update the code with created font name

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:16:56 +0000

I tried to put in a font name that exist in the font list…
Same error… Maybe i need to copy this font to certain location ?

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:13:02 +0000

Hi all….

With the explains from conzi i come more forward…
But i do not realy understand the part with the font.

The error in the IDE say that its missing a font.
In the code i found the line:
fontA = loadFont(“Courier-Bold-32.vlw”);

But i did not find this font in the list of font, by “create font”

What can i do ?

By: tobi

tobi — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:30:56 +0000

hey! I haven’t tried Arduino UNO yet. AFAIK it should work the same – are you on Windows? What compiler errors are they?

By: LensMan

LensMan — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:45:35 +0000

Dear Tobi

I feel I am so close to getting mtxcontrol to work but at the same time so far!

I am using the Uno to make the connection between the Arduino 0022 and the Rainbowduino. I have successfully uploaded a blank sketch to the arduino and the mtxcontro firmware to the rainbowduino (leds are all white). However, mtxcontrol is simply not communicating with the whole uno/rainbowduino setup. I think the problem is that the uno is communicating through Port 5 but the mtxcontrol (at least the version I have) seems hardwaired for Port 1. I have tried compiling the mtxcontrol sketch to use port 5 but I get so many compiler errors that are beyond my capability to deal with. Autodetect just doesn’t seem to be working. Any help much appreciated

Thank You (cos I think mtxcontrol will be great if I can get it working!!)

By: Erick Nava Aldana

Erick Nava Aldana — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:55:42 +0000

Hi:

I think I have now a working Seeduino/Rainbowduino Up and Working(W7 x64)with fantastic mtXcontrol, many thanks for that, just some questions:

- Could explain a little more about if its supported multime Rainbows? how to?
- It there some patterns/effect like “scrolling” function or some fx(would be great!)?
- Coul Send “data” like text to mtXcontrol?

Thanks! Great Piece of softwar(Im a little new to Rainbos/Duinos, and Processing).

By: mtXcontrol unter Windows 7 64bit « M8IN.DE

mtXcontrol unter Windows 7 64bit « M8IN.DE — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:47:26 +0000

[...] seit langem nochmal mit meinem Rainbowduino rumgespielt und musste dabei leider feststellen, dass mtxControl irgendwie nicht unter Windows 7 64bit (bzw. unter Windows im Allgemeinen – wie sich später [...]