Barnabás

Last few hours was kinda painful. I made huge progress tbh, but I had a lot of problems during the development. So the main problem is that this raspberrypi4 only has 2gb of ram which isn’t enough for most of the animations, and this whole screen sharing, also the web dashboard used to nuke requests for the backend which significantly decreased the performance. Now I’m working on check if the monitor is actually available, and if yes only then will it render the infos out.
The video transfer now works only via network which can be really slow sometimes, so I’m working on a hybrid solution, which will use both wifi and usb.

Ooh, I didn’t know it was 7 hours, oopsie.
Over the last few days, I was a bit sick, so I had a lot of free time. I decided to update my setup, rearranged the hardware, and now my desk looks so much better. I did the cable management and set up two monitors. When I finished, I wanted to connect both screens to my laptop.
That’s when I realized my MacBook doesn’t support two external displays. So I decided to make a driver for myself to actually be able to use two displays. The idea is simple: software that renders a screen and sends the data to a Raspberry Pi, which then displays it on a monitor. Low latency, good colors.
I set everything up. The app works, video transfer works, but I had a lot of problems with the virtual screen. It always mirrored the main display. I tried around 15 different methods, but none of them worked.
That’s when I came across the CGVirtualDisplay private API. I had a few failed attempts with it, but then I found a GitHub repo that basically carried the whole project. Now I have a version where I can use an extended display that’s streamed to my Pi.

Now, I can actually upload a devlog, since last time I uploaded a devlog about the market and the design lowkey got leaked. In this time - along with some smaller improvemets - I did:
-refined printer dashboard (so gcode file would be necessarily)
-a project status bar which shows that the project currently is in what stage
-some optimalization for explore page to save some ram
-and an airtable integration fix

I just got a Junsun android head unit for my car but all the factory themes sucked, so I thought why not making one (specifically for my car). The idea was to add a 3d model of the car in the middle and read out the speed and rev infos from mcu (and canbus), but unfortunately Junsun does not give access to these. I just tested it, I does run really good on my mac, but the head unit has only 2gb of ram so most of the animations lagged out like crazy. So this is the current state, but now I’ll change it to make it more ram efficient, and still look smooth on my car.

I’ve added a snowfall to the whole Construct YSWS site. And also made the market system for the site. Admins can crud market items, and now market score actually does somthing:
It discounts your items!!!