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Raspberry Pi / Broadcast to the Pi?

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CumQuaT
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Posted: 22nd May 2021 02:58
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Hello, has anyone come up with a solution to be able to broadcast your game from a Mac or PC over to the Raspberry Pi, like we can do with phones and tablets?

I'm building a Pi driven arcade cabinet, but doing the dev on a PC. It's a bit of a pain to swap a USB stick constantly for testing and I'd love to be able to just broadcast across as I go.
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Posted: 22nd May 2021 20:03
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Quote: "It's a bit of a pain to swap a USB stick constantly for testing and I'd love to be able to just broadcast across as I go."


i agree maybe the broadcast app could be ported across im not sure if i have seen the code for it available
but i dont see any reason why if you asked for it for the program not to be shared. The code may already be available
im not sure.

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tboy
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Posted: 22nd May 2021 21:21
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If you try running the PiPlayer from it's own folder (without media folder, bytecode etc..), the player should listen for a connection over wifi.

If your PC or Mac is connected when you press broadcast, the player should hopefully pick it up.


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CumQuaT
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Posted: 24th May 2021 09:08
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tboy wrote: "If you try running the PiPlayer from it's own folder (without media folder, bytecode etc..), the player should listen for a connection over wifi."


I did try that, but nothing happens at all when I try to run it, unfortunately. I could be missing something, though, I'm quite a noob when it comes to Linux based stuff.


fubarpk wrote: "i dont see any reason why if you asked for it for the program not to be shared"


True. If I have any luck I'll put a post up here.
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Posted: 24th May 2021 10:17 Edited at: 24th May 2021 10:20
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Can you broadcast from the Pi to your android phone?

Or broadcast from your Mac or PC to your phone?
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Posted: 27th May 2021 03:29
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Yep! Can broadcast just fine that way. I'm needing to broadcast from my PC (where I'm doing the development) to the Pi running Raspbian.
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Posted: 27th May 2021 10:45
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Can you ping the ip address of the pi from your pc?
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Posted: 30th May 2021 09:41 Edited at: 30th May 2021 09:42
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I think you're misunderstanding what I'm trying to do. The two computers can talk together just fine. There's no issue there. I'm saying that the Raspberry Pi package of AppGameKit doesn't include (as far as I'm aware) a working version of the receiver app, which would allow me to click broadcast on my Windows PC and make my software start running on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.

If I were broadcasting to my phone from my Windows PC I would be able to download the receiver app from the app store and have that running to pick up the broadcast. I'm looking for an equivalent of that functionality that can run on my Raspberry Pi, so that my Pi can be broadcast to from my Windows PC. An app or whatever that is designed for the Pi to receive broadcasts from elsewhere.
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Posted: 31st May 2021 10:12
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I understand what you're trying to achieve, I don't have a windows system to test but I have tested with a PI 3 and Pi 4 and both broadcast and receive over my wifi network.


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CumQuaT
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How did you manage to get the receiver app running on the Pi? I can't find where it's kept...
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Posted: 5th Jun 2021 12:30 Edited at: 5th Jun 2021 12:51
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The PiPlayer itself is the receiver.

On my system it is found in: AGKPi/Tier1/Compiler/interpreters

I can't upload a file on the TGC site at the moment so here is a link to my github:

You should see something like this:
https://github.com/dtvault/AGKTier2/blob/master/Screenshot%20from%202021-06-05%2012-27-17.png
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Once again you save the day @tboy thankyou i used the player just where you said it was located and it worked well, i tried the wrong version of the player in the past when i tried it
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Posted: 8th Jun 2021 08:35
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Interesting... I had thought that might be the case, but when I try to run PiPlayer on its own, it does nothing. Just opens then closes immediately... Not sure why that's happening for me and not for you guys!
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Heyyyyyy it's working!

You never steer me wrong, tBoy. Thank you.
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Posted: 8th Jun 2021 16:56 Edited at: 8th Jun 2021 16:59
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fubarpk wrote: "Once again you save the day @tboy thank you"

CumQuaT wrote: "You never steer me wrong, tBoy. Thank you."

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Glad it works for you CumQuaT, it really is a cool feature of AGK.

Thanks for the badge Virtual Nomad, most appreciated!
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