Hi,
Is it possible to make a very simple Android app that basically splits the screen into two buttons: forward and backward? It should communicate to the Windows PC via Bluetooth (BLE preferably). Would be an easy way to flip the pages in case you don't have pedals, forgot them or if they break down, battery goes flat, are too noisy, etc. You could even flip the page with your bare footÂ
Would be even better if it could use the camera and recognize a nod with the head. But maybe I'm over asking...
Thanks, Reinier
https://www.howtogeek.com/714170/how-to-...-keyboard/
From what I know, page turners just act as another keyboard, albeit with left and right cursor buttons only. I made one with an ESP32 - it's about 10 lines of code.
Gesture control should be possible - it's used on forScore, I think, although I'm told it's a bit hit and miss
(05-04-2023, 10:14 PM)spandit Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.howtogeek.com/714170/how-to-...-keyboard/
From what I know, page turners just act as another keyboard, albeit with left and right cursor buttons only. I made one with an ESP32 - it's about 10 lines of code.
Gesture control should be possible - it's used on forScore, I think, although I'm told it's a bit hit and miss
Thanks, I'll try that one. Using an ESP32 is a nice one. I have several of them laying around. By the way, I made my own page turner from an old wireless mouse, bypassing the mouse switches with pedals. Works great except it needs a dongle. I once forgot the dongle and a second time I forgot to bring the pedals to the rehearsal, so a phone backup would be great. My first experiment was with a Bluetooth mouse, but is fell asleep pretty fast, requiring a pedal click to wakeup again. Not good when playing music!
One problem with the EPS32 is that it is quite power hungry, but at least it doesn't need a dongle! Maybe wakeup on pedal could be implemented. Do you mind posting your code here?
Thanks again!
Reinier
I am planning on adding support for facial gestures soon, although I have no idea how reliable they will be yet, as that will involve testing with the various libraries to see how well they report things like winks, nods, shakes of the head, etc.
I did recently add support for triggering pedal actions through intents. So in theory any external application can trigger page turns in MobileSheets by just sending those intents when needed. This only works on Android though as there isn't a similar way of doing it through Windows or iPadOS.
Mike
(05-05-2023, 11:17 PM)spandit Wrote: [ -> ] (05-05-2023, 12:45 AM)Reinier Wrote: [ -> ]Do you mind posting your code here?
I followed these instructions:
https://codeandlife.com/2021/05/23/diy-b...ith-esp32/
Great, thanks! By the way, I have exactly the same pedals connected to my wireless mouse. A one-pedal solution is nice as I hardly ever go back in my sheet music. I cut and paste the sheets so it is "forward only".