Ecosyste.ms: Awesome
An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.
https://github.com/automata/osc-web
Open Sound Control Web Bridge
https://github.com/automata/osc-web
Last synced: 3 days ago
JSON representation
Open Sound Control Web Bridge
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/automata/osc-web
- Owner: automata
- License: mit
- Created: 2011-02-14T05:26:09.000Z (over 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-09-22T13:09:10.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-07-31T22:45:15.857Z (3 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 314 KB
- Stars: 318
- Watchers: 26
- Forks: 50
- Open Issues: 7
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
Awesome Lists containing this project
README
# Open Sound Control Web Bridge
Creates a simple bridge between your Web page and an OSC app or device.
.----------. .----------------------. .------------------. .----------.
| OSC app | --tcp/udp--> | bridge.js OSC server | => | socket.io client | --websockets--> | web page |
`--(3334)--' `-------( 3333 )-------' `------------------' `----------'
^ |
| |
| |
| .----------------------. .------------------. |
`---tcp/udp----- | bridge.js OSC client | <= | socket.io server | <-------websockets-------'
`----------------------' `-----( 8081 )-----'
## Introduction
OSC (Open Sound Control) is a protocol on top of UDP commonly used by
audio applications. It could be seem as a /MIDI evolution/.
The objective of *osc-web* is to make possible to send and receive
OSC messages on the Web browser. With this browser capability we could
do interesting things like:
- Connect OSC supported controllers to the Web browser
- Use the Web browser as a controller to OSC supported applications
(like Puredata, SuperCollider, Max/MSP, ...)
- Create a Web /OSC proxy/ where people all over the world could
connect yours OSC controllers or applications without complications
with /port fordwarding/
### History
Long time ago I was asking for awesome people on AudioXG about that
and we come with some options:
1. create a Firefox extension using nsISocketTransport
2. create a kind of HTTP proxy (thanks @corban, @F1LT3R, @humph and yury!)
The first one works but seems to be a security hole (as yuri saids, no
one wants UDP connections on its browsers). Now I'm trying the second
alternative, using node.js and socket.io to create a bridge between
OSC controllers/applications and the browser.
## Prerequisites
- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org)
- [Socket.io](https://socket.io)
- Some application (Puredata, Renoise, Reaktor, ...) or hardware controller that supports OSC
## Installation
First of all, download and install Nodejs LTS from http://nodejs.org, then:
```
$ git clone git://github.com/automata/osc-web.git
$ cd osc-web/
$ npm install
```
## Using
Run the bridge app on your machine (localhost):
```
$ cd osc-web
$ node bridge.js
```
An example is avaitable at `web-side/app.html`. Host this static asset the way you like:
```
$ cd web-side/
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5000
```
Open your browser at http://localhost:5000/app.html.
Now you can run your favorite OSC app/device and send OSC messages
through port 3333. Those messages will be send to the HTML page by
WebSockets.
Configure your favore OSC app/device to listen to OSC messages coming
into port 3334. Any message sent by app.html (hit the button!) will be
sent to your OSC app/device.
**So, you can see the HTML page as an "OSC node", listening to messages
on 3333 and sending messages to 3334.**
Take a look at osc-side/ to examples of OSC apps.
## Projects using it
- 2011 Experience Design class project: http://codes.nevercool.com and https://vimeo.com/album/1636910
- Shapes (Keely Honeywell) at Laboratory! by Alan Chatham: http://laboratoryspokane.com/2013/10/30/005/ and source code at https://github.com/AlanChatham/005-Values
## Related solutions
- [npTuioClient](https://github.com/fajran/npTuioClient): a NPAPI plugin implementing a TUIOClient clone
- [PookyTouch](http://pooky.sourceforge.net/wiki/PookyTouch): similar to npTuioClient using Java-JS LiveConnect bridge
- [Lily's approach](http://blog.lilyapp.org/2007/05/lily_osc_1.html): some good notes. Also uses LiveConnect
- [MaxJax]([http://tirl.org/software/maxjax/): OSC bridge using Python Twisted (just sending OSC)
## References
- [Socket connections in FF](http://www.midnightresearch.com/index.php?s=nsisockettransportservice)
- [OSC Best Practices](http://opensoundcontrol.org/files/osc-best-practices-final.pdf)
- [OSC 1.0 Specification](http://opensoundcontrol.org/spec-1_0)