PHL

Intro

The following repository is a dump for all the code and work done on the passive haptic learning project.

SETUP

Study

pip install pygame pip install pyserial pip install mido

Evaluation

pip install numpy scipy matplotlib ipython jupyter pandas sympy nose

TODO

Clean all hard coded strings

Usefull Software

• arecordmidi to capture MIDI events.
  • Port 24 ist the default port of Teco's Casio Piano, to detect the port use "pmidi -l"

	arecordmidi -p 24:0 scale.mid

• timidity to play MIDI files.
  • Installation and usage

     sudo apt-get install freepats timidity timidity-interfaces-extra
     timidity -iA
     timidity some_file.mid

    Source: https://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/how-to-play-midi-files-under-ubuntu-linux/

Linux Mint bugs:

• Error:

	ALSA lib conf.c:3558:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so (/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so: libasound_module_conf_pulse.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
ALSA lib seq.c:935:(snd_seq_open_noupdate) Unknown SEQ default

Solution:

	sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so

Install gweled

• extract the tar.gz file
• go to the extracted folder
• follow the instructions of the INSTALL file
  • before executing make install you have to patch some files
    • use patch -p1 < [filename].patch for each of the patchfiles