[Tiptoi] My Tiptoi only seems to work with unmodified .gme files

[Till Korten]

Hi Wouter,

are you sure that the audio files you are using for your own gme files 
are in a format the pen supports?

Try to convert the files with ffmpeg to ogg 22050khz mono like this:

ffmpeg -i 'source_file.mp3' -ar 22050 -ac 1 'target_file.ogg'

If that works, and you prefer to use the mp3 format (which will improve 
the audio quality when using headphones), you may need to re-encode the 
files try:

ffmpeg -i 'source_file.mp3' -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 192k 'target_file.mp3'

Good luck,

Till

On 27.07.19 17:35, Wouter Betting wrote:
> Hello Till,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion. I tried that this week after reading about 
> it in an earlier post. I tried disconnecting without unmounting again 
> today, but it still makes no difference.
>
> For your information: every time I disconnect the Tiptoi, it 
> automaticaly switches off. After turning it on it tells me to "wait a 
> moment", about 2-3 second pause, and then starts up with the standard 
> welcome sound.
> I have not seen any differences in this behaviour, no matter what OS I 
> use or how many files I copied/removed. It all looks pretty sturdy and 
> reliable to me...
>
> kind regards,
> Wouter
>
>
>
>> Op 27 jul. 2019, om 14:24 heeft Till Korten <till at korten.at 
>> <mailto:till at korten.at>> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> Hi Wouter,
>>
>> After deleting all but your own gme files with the same OID from the 
>> pen, you need to get the pen to read in the gme file. If it does 
>> this, you should hear a message "please wait a moment" the first time 
>> you turn on the pen after unplugging it from your computer.
>>
>> You can force re-hashing by unplugging the pen without ejecting the 
>> usb disk. Warning: you should only do this if you did not modify any 
>> files on the pen while it was plugged in. otherwise you may fry the 
>> filesystem.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Till
>>
>> On 27.07.19 08:52, Tobias Paul wrote:
>>> Hi Wouter,
>>>
>>> I had a similar behavior, when there was more than one gme file with 
>>> the same product-oid on the pen at the same time. Please ensure that 
>>> there is only one file and restart the pen after that, because it 
>>> seems that there is some hashing or mirroring during boot phase.
>>>
>>> Maybe this helps - hopefully
>>> Greets
>>> Tobias
>>>
>>> Am 27.07.19, 01:43, Wouter Betting <w.betting at chello.nl> schrieb:
>>>
>>>     Hello Everybody,
>>>
>>>     I was looking forward to making my own scripts and being able to
>>>     print oid-codes for use with the Tiptoi pen.
>>>     I think I covered the basics before buying my first pen:
>>>     1: being able to write code and converting it to a .gme file
>>>     using tttool
>>>     2: being able to print the oid-codes that are readable by the pen
>>>     All these steps are working just fine.
>>>
>>>     But the problem is that after copying the .gme files to my pen,
>>>     it only reads the original Ravenburgers .gme files, and not the
>>>     .gme files created by tttool.
>>>
>>>     I've tried a lot of things to figure out where this problem is
>>>     coming from. But so far it feels like there is some sort of
>>>     copyprotection at work which recognizes the difference between
>>>     the original and a modified .gme file.
>>>     I'm running out of ideas and hope that maybe someone can help me
>>>     out here.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Here is a bit of extra information:
>>>     The Tiptoi pen I have is without playback buttons and without
>>>     recording option. It is brand new, I bought it a week ago. It
>>>     has 8GB of USB memory and I assume the processor is the 3203L.
>>>     The hardware looks like a generation 2 (horizontal volume
>>>     buttons), but it does not have the player buttons on top.
>>>
>>>     The file 'LanguageInfo2.txt' tells me:
>>>     5
>>>     999 GERMAN Update3203L.upd
>>>     998 FRENCH Update3203L_fr.upd
>>>     997 DUTCH Update3203L_nl.upd
>>>     996 ITALIAN Update3203L_it.upd
>>>     995 RUSSIA Update3203L_ru.upd
>>>     994 ENGLISH Update3203L_en.upd
>>>
>>>     The file '.tiptoi.log' tells me:
>>>     TW153238ˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇ2D0013����ˇˇˇˇˇˇDUTCH�����ˇˇˇˇˇˇ3203L�����ˇˇˇˇˇˇ
>>>
>>>     I've tried copying .gme files to the pen and printing their
>>>     respective product-id as oid-code, and then:
>>>     - assembling the Debug.yaml using tttool,
>>>     FAIL, audio message: "first download the audio files to the pen..."
>>>     - creating my own .yaml file with product-id and only one script
>>>     to play a sound,
>>>     FAIL, audio message: "first download the audio files to the pen..."
>>>     - downloading pre-assembled 'stepseq.gme' and
>>>     'TipMaster-0.9.1.gme',
>>>     FAIL, audio message: "first download the audio files to the pen..."
>>>     - downloading several .gme files from de Ravensburger website,
>>>     SUCCES, audio message: "welcome to this book..."
>>>
>>>
>>>     I hope that someone can at least point me in a new direction and
>>>     tell what to try next. If someone needs more information, please
>>>     let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     kind regards,
>>>     Wouter
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