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jangxx / OVRT_Soundpad

An OVR Toolkit custom app and a bridge that allows triggering Soundpad effects from within OVR Toolkit
MIT License
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OVR doesn't see OVRT bridge #5

Closed flonicot closed 2 years ago

flonicot commented 2 years ago

Accidentally removed the shortcut in OVR and can't find a way to put it back, when i try adding a shortcut i can't find it either and i also tried re-installing ovrt and ovr, nothing changed

jangxx commented 2 years ago

I don't think I understand your problem.

Accidentally removed the shortcut in OVR

The shortcut to what? The custom app or the bridge? Also what do you mean with "OVR"? OVR is short for OpenVR, which is the backbone of most VR apps on steam, but really has no bearing on this.

when i try adding a shortcut

Again adding a shortcut to where to what?

tried re-installing ovrt and ovr

Reinstalling OVRT (OVR Toolkit) does nothing. "Reinstalling OVR" would mean reinstalling SteamVR I guess? That also does nothing.

The soundboard app is a workshop item that gets downloaded automatically if you have subscribed to it on the Steam workshop. The only way to "remove" it (afaik) is to unsubscribe from the workshop item. The bridge on the other hand is an independent piece of software that runs alongside everything else and that enables the communication between the soundboard app (running in OVRT) and Soundpad running in the background. You do not run it inside of VR at all; when you run it it puts a small icon into your tray and that's it.

flonicot commented 2 years ago

sorry, just kinda mashed words but when i go in vr and i go on the ovr toolkit menu i don't see the bridge app icon to open the soundboard, i accidentally removed the icon and i can`t find a way to put it back

jangxx commented 2 years ago

There still seems to be some confusion on how this thing actually works. The system is made up of three components:

  1. The custom app. This is the thing you see when clicking on the icon in OVR Toolkits phone UI. You install it from the Workshop.
  2. Soundpad, which is responsible for actually playing the sounds. This runs in the background, completely separate from VR.
  3. Th bridge, which is a little server application that allows the custom app to talk to Soundpad. You download it from GitHub, but crucially, this software runs completely independent from VR as well. You just run it on your PC in the background.

So what I'm getting from your comment is that you don't see the custom app icon in OVRTs phone UI? In that case make sure that you are subscribed to the workshop item. If you are and it still doesn't show up then this is a problem with OVRT and nothing I can fix on my end.

The bridge will never and can never show up inside of OVR Toolkit, since it doesn't have a UI. It's only a server that enables the custom app to trigger sounds in Soundpad and to list sounds from Soundpad.

flonicot commented 2 years ago

Yeah, done all that but still can't see the icon 😕

jangxx commented 2 years ago

So according to the OVR Toolkit developer, removing the shortcut from the phone UI unsubscribes from the workshop item automatically, so you should be able to just go to the workshop again and resubscribe.

flonicot commented 2 years ago

alright it's fixed now, thank you very much