No way of checking if ofxArtnetSender/Receiver is actually connected

[bgstaal]

As of now there is no way of checking if Sender/Receiver is actually connected to the udp endpoint. This makes it impossible to check if one is actually connected before sending data.

[piotrus04]

Yes this is exactly the interest of Polling the receiver, but it seems that it is not implemented in this git

[hiroyuki]

I think you guys are talking about artpoll message.
It’s not implemented in this version. I don’t think it’s not that complicated though.

[adidahiya]

+1, I'm also interested in a method to check if the connection has been opened successfully

[piotrus04]

I found this from a friend of mine,
https://github.com/mattbeghin/Art-Ext-Poll
and
https://github.com/OpenLightingProject/artnet-examples/blob/master/src/artnet-test-master.c

but i don't have sufficient knowledge in C to make a good (coded well) implementation alone.

Somebody would be interested to implement it ?

[hiroyuki]

if you can wait some time, I will try it later. maybe in next month.

in case you can not wait, i think you can write your own code using ofxNetwork.
The basic infomation is here.

[piotrus04]

Ok , i'll try. I can do it, it will just be quite dirty. If somebody can later clean the code... :)
I'll try to implement it in october.
thks