Update to Estim Control/Server
Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:48 am
I've done a small update to version 2.1.3 for my Estim Control/Server software, for Mac, Windows and Linux.
All versions can be grabbed from http://roughsex.org/estim/
The change in this version is a new tick box on the settings page, 'Auto fix adjust times'
Background: the adjust settings lets you alter the settings from what the box is currently doing, over a specific time. You can type a relative value (like +5, -3) in the boxes, and hit the adjust button, and it will take 30 seconds to change the levels, or you can specify any other number of seconds you like.
The software has a limitation of one step per second, maximum, to ensure that you don't end up sending commands so fast the box can't respond, or the results can't be checked and corrected if necessary.
So, in previous versions, the adjust command (whether locally or via a remote connection) would be rejected if the number of steps needed was more than the number of seconds, to prevent possible glitches.
That turns out to have been a bit annoying in some remote sessions I've done, where you might want to slowly wind someone down to zero, for example. So the next tick box gives the software permission to adjust the specified time automatically. If the number of steps required is more than the number of seconds you've specified, the time will be increased, to one second per step, if this option is ticked.
For example, if channel A is at 36 and you set an adjust value of 0, leaving the time at the default 30 seconds, if this option is turned off, then the command will be rejected and no change will be made to the settings.
If the new option is turned on, then the time period will be changed to 36 seconds, and the output on channel A will fall to zero over that period.
Nigel.
All versions can be grabbed from http://roughsex.org/estim/
The change in this version is a new tick box on the settings page, 'Auto fix adjust times'
Background: the adjust settings lets you alter the settings from what the box is currently doing, over a specific time. You can type a relative value (like +5, -3) in the boxes, and hit the adjust button, and it will take 30 seconds to change the levels, or you can specify any other number of seconds you like.
The software has a limitation of one step per second, maximum, to ensure that you don't end up sending commands so fast the box can't respond, or the results can't be checked and corrected if necessary.
So, in previous versions, the adjust command (whether locally or via a remote connection) would be rejected if the number of steps needed was more than the number of seconds, to prevent possible glitches.
That turns out to have been a bit annoying in some remote sessions I've done, where you might want to slowly wind someone down to zero, for example. So the next tick box gives the software permission to adjust the specified time automatically. If the number of steps required is more than the number of seconds you've specified, the time will be increased, to one second per step, if this option is ticked.
For example, if channel A is at 36 and you set an adjust value of 0, leaving the time at the default 30 seconds, if this option is turned off, then the command will be rejected and no change will be made to the settings.
If the new option is turned on, then the time period will be changed to 36 seconds, and the output on channel A will fall to zero over that period.
Nigel.