Flash, Midi and Red5

Although I’ve had some real fun using the velleman k8055 to control flash with sensors, it only supports 2 analog inputs.
So I started looking for alternatives and was pointed towards the MidiSense page. It’s a small and affordable circuit that has 6 analog inputs and sends the data as Midi.
Midi huh, so how are we gonna get that into Flash? Well, I saw this wonderful post on John Grden’s blog.
So I hooked up my flash-file to Red5, converted John’s code (just a few lines) to AS2 (I’m still teaching my students AS2) and…
‘Hurray’ 6 analog sensors were available to flash…

In John’s Words… ROCK ON \m/

Getting Red5_04 to work on Fedora Core 4

Ok, It took me a while te get Red5 v04 to work on Fedora Core 4, so I thought I’d share.

[update: also works for version 0.5]

First of all, you will need to get the sun 1.5 jdk… The jdk that comes with fc4 will not work!!!
You can find the instructions to get and install the sun 1.5 jdk here.

Next up: installing apache ant.
Dont bother trying to get apache ant via yum… It won’t work..
Follow these instructions.

dont’ forget to add the dir (I use /urs/local/bin/) where you put the ant file to your path.

Ow, and don’t forget to stop FMS if you have it running, or change the ports for either FMS or Red5
(thnx Jay, for reminding me)
And adjust your router settings to forward the rtmp ports

This should do the trick,
Happy Experimenting!

get the onepage instructions here