Scrolling text on Arctis Wireless box and unresponsive endpoint about gamesense-sdk

[adamscybot]

I've been battling similar problems and think I can offer some help. Firstly, your "non response" problem, I believe you need to bump the value key on the game_event each time to prevent the device caching. In your example, you are missing the value key as a sibling to the frame key. I think this is supposed to be a unique integer each time.

POST http://127.0.0.1:49391/game_event HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json

{  
    "game": "TS3TOSSE3",
    "event": "POKE_MESSAGE",
    "data": {
      "value": 1, // make this increase each time you want to update
      "frame": {
         "custom-text": "test test 12345564556789"
      }
   }
}

I've also come across the problem of needing scrolling text. I first tried to force a new line (why does it only show 1 line in the centre?! Argh!!) but was unable to even inserting carriage returns in the JSON string.

I was able to get a scrolling affect by hitting the endpoint a lot bumping the aforementioned value integer each time, and manually manipulating the text by cutting off the first character each time.

Another way is to abuse the suffix key when you register the event, and then use the repeat feature. This is probably closer to a final solution, since you first bind the event (I think this sends the frames to the device beforehand) then we "play" them by sending the event.

POST http://127.0.0.1:49391/bind_game_event HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json

{
   "game": "TS3TOSSE3",
   "event": "POKE_MESSAGE",
   "handlers": [
      {
         "device-type": "screened",
         "mode": "screen",
         "zone": "one",
         "datas": [
         {
            "has-text": true,
            "suffix": "I am a long piece of text",
            "length-millis": 200
         },
            {
            "has-text": true,
            "suffix": " am a long piece of text",
            "length-millis": 200
         },
            {
            "has-text": true,
            "suffix": "am a long piece of text",
            "length-millis": 200
         },
            {
            "has-text": true,
            "suffix": "m a long piece of text",
            "length-millis": 200
         },
            {
            "has-text": true,
            "suffix": " a long piece of text",
            "length-millis": 200
         },
            {
            "has-text": true,
               "suffix": "a long piece of text",
            "length-millis": 200
         },
            {
            "has-text": true,
            "suffix": " long piece of text",
            "length-millis": 200
         },
         {
            "has-text": true,
            "suffix": "long piece of text",
            "length-millis": 200,
            "repeats": true
         }
         ]
      }
   ]
}

It's hacky, but you can obviously build an abstraction on top of this. Still though, no way to wrap text as far as a I can see. For that reason, I'm probably going to generate and send my own bitmaps...

[szabolcs-dekany92]

Hey @adamscybot !
Thanks for the awesome responses. I'll be sure to tinker around with these during the weekend! Cheers

[szabolcs-dekany92]

Update: After removing the app from SSE3 and re-registering it, It just refuses to work. The message gets sent, the response is there, but nothing happens.

[adamscybot]

I found some more tricks :). After looking into the DB that backs the game engine, I can see there are some undocumented features we can use. You can split text on multiple lines like so:

POST http://127.0.0.1:50035/bind_game_event HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json

{
   "game": "TEST",
   "event": "DISPLAY",
   "icon_id": 16,
   "handlers": [
      {"device-type": "screened",
         "mode": "screen",
         "zone": "one",
         "datas": [
            {
               "length-millis": 5000,
               "lines": [
                  {
                     "has-text": true,
                     "context-frame-key": "line1",
                     "bold": true
                  },
                  {
                     "has-text": true,
                     "context-frame-key": "line2"
                  },
                  {
                     "has-text": true,
                     "context-frame-key": "line3"
                  }
               ]
            }
         ]
      }
   ]
}

Then send the event like so:

POST http://127.0.0.1:50035/game_event HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json

{  
    "game": "TEST",
    "event": "DISPLAY",
    "data": {
      "value": 1,
      "frame": {
         "line1": "test1",
         "line2": "test2",
         "line3": "test3"
      }
   }
}