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KenT2 / pipresents-gapless

A retired version of Pi Presents. Please use Pi Presents KMS which works on legacy RPi OS Bullseye or Pi Presents GTK which works on RPi OS Bookworm and RPi Model 5
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Animatronics #132

Closed hannapropman closed 3 years ago

hannapropman commented 4 years ago

Hello Ken! I am using python script and raspberry pi to control animatronics with some success. My question here is, can i run my scripts through pipresents as readily as media, integral on one paspberry pi. This would solve many problems, and of coarse create new ones i am sure! I have read through all of the types of shows that pipresents can generate, animatronics are mentioned but not to the extent that I would know I am heading in the right direction. I have a feeling i might be slightly outside of the box on this one, Thank you!

KenT2 commented 4 years ago

I think you should write your own I/O plugin to do your animatronics, you can define commands with parameters which you include in animation commands in tracks. Make sure the code does not block for more than a few tens of milliseconds by using threads or Tkinter's After command.