PixelTeleporter - virtual LEDs on your computer

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This might be a bit nitpicky.

I used the FTDI connector listed above and windows 10

  1. The directions say that the FTDI USB->Serial adapter would auto install on windows. This was not the case, I had to manually download and install drivers for both hardware components.

  2. the pbXTeleporter server settings operation is unclear. The FTDI USB->Serial adapter shows up as com5 on my system. When you click on the serial device tab it only shows the first com port. It took a while to see that you can mouse click on the port, and then arrow down the side arrows, which are very small. When I selected com5 and hit the “OK” button, nothing obviously happened, whereas the “OK” button in the Settings>Ports pulldown closes the popup. I did see eventually that it had saved it in the ini file.

  3. Sometimes pbXTeleporter just crashes. No idea why. Its infrequent enough that I can make good progress, but still slows things down.

  4. pbXTeleporter has no feedback on windows 10, so I don’t know if (a) Its connected successfully to the adapter, if (b) It is receiving data from the adapter, or if © it is connected to Processing. The only way to know is if you are fully successful and see pixel animation in processing.

  5. The processing window locks sometimes.