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General / Facial recognition with attract mode demo and tutorial
« on: March 15, 2021, 03:25:17 AM »
So I'd asked about how to select a specific display...here's why I wanted that: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=geektoolkit

That video shows how to setup attract mode so that a keypress selects a specific display.  For this group that may be a bit basic, but it enables ALOT of scenarios. I show one of them in the video...facial recognition.  In that setup the huskylens is connected to an arduino leonardo, which makes sending keypresses very easy (and the huskylens makes facial recognition VERY easy).  So when it sees a face, it selects a display..and that persons game list and background show up.

You could also use python to emit keystrokes, so that would enable you to control displays externally using stuff like nfc tags (again, arduino leonardo, or reading serial streams).  I bult an MQTT nfc reader (dynatap) that i hope to hook up also...then I could scan say a ryu figure and have my fighting games show up.

The other thing I did is use the system() calls in squirrel to call to curl, and then fire off webhooks on my digital art posters...so my art frames can match my attract mode setup. I may build out a squirrel file for this..still learning the syntax.

I was going to build a new plugin for specific displays...but really I didn't know a clean way to limit how many displays it needed to show, and it was simpler to just clone the plugins. 

Hope you enjoy it and that it's something new. 

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General / Re: Display Keybinding
« on: March 15, 2021, 03:12:22 AM »
Thankyou! I was looking for what essentially the 'specificdisplay' plugin did...once I found that it enabled me to pull off what I was seeking to do. I'll do a new post since it's a bit involved but shows the community how to do some cool stuff with attract mode and dynamic themes with facial recognition.

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General / Display Keybinding
« on: March 10, 2021, 12:13:12 AM »
Hi, I'm working on a project where I'd like to dynamically change displays to a certain display (pretty much I'd like to have a keybinding that selects the display).

For instance say I walk up to the machine and want my theme and roms...which I've setup as Display1...I'd like to have a hotkey to select that.  And now add 3 other people with thier own displays, romlists, themes.

I'm a bit new to attract mode, but I'm hoping to switch my launchbox setups over to it.  I have some cool ideas for dynamic themes with curated rom lists (such as a 1980s mame theme lets say).  Also for rotating monitor setups, it'd be cool to have the gamelist switch on monitor rotation automatically. I know the coding and electronics to do that, I'm just not clear on the Attract mode stuff yet.

Thanks in advance for any help!
Joe
Geektoolkit

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