Test TCP/Ip server with postman

[Sdess]

Hi, google chrome provide an application, postman, witch Can be use to test REST server s.
Is it possible to use it to test the tcp server in freestyler ?

I tried to send the message FSBC001000, with a post access to localhost:3332, using my computer with freestyler launcher, but i have got nothing in Return. In fact, I've got nothing.

Thanks

Steeve

[Mattotone]

Try comunicating with Freestyler using ascii rather then bytecode
example for blackout FSOC002255
I doublt it will work as Freestyler does not implement Json just raw byte input/output

[Laudrin]

Sorry for reanimating an old thread (sometimes they come back…), but I have the same problem. Not with Opera/JSON, but the TCP answer of FreeStyler.

I already got to work FreeStyler receiving TCP commands via LAN either as Byte or as ASCII, both working fine (I now use ASCII exclusively because I can't find the right way splitting codes above 255 into MSB/LSB). FreeStyler on the other PC receives and executes the commands. The Connection Test is fine, too.

But when I try to request the button captions from FreeStyler, I get no result.

The documentation states as follows:

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Byte Protocol: 9 bytes  
    byte 0: “F” 
    byte 1: “S” 
    byte 2: “B” 
    byte 3: “C” 
    byte 4,5 and 6 : Code (see table) 
    byte 7,8 and 9 : 0 

[Code:]
001  Cue captions 
[…]
examples:  
"FSBC001000" -> You will receive the 20 captions of the current cue (comma separated) 
[…]

This is the Java code I use (for clarity I removed the try/catch phrases):

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address = InetAddress.getByName("Nanako");  
port = 3332;
socket = new Socket(address, port);

InputStream is = socket.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
message = br.readLine();

It's the same code I use for sending code, there of course with OutputStreamWriter and BufferedWriter.

I tried br.read() in a loop, too. I get "160" from time to time, but no captions or other text / values.

It seems the documentation is not clear enough or at least ambiguous. I would gladly help overhauling some documentation, as I started in the Wiki.

It has to work, otherwise there wouldn't be apps and adddons using it like your Remote App, Mattotone.

Can someone please help me to get my head around this function?