Installer serialosc avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• serialosc-detector
• serialosc-device
• serialoscd

Historique du projet

serialosc was developed by monome as the multi-device, Bonjour-capable successor in its serial-to-OSC software stack. It replaced workflows built around the older monomeserial service and provided a common OSC interface for grid and arc controllers.

The architecture uses serialoscd to detect USB connection changes and launches a serialosc-device process on its own port for each attached controller. This model supports multiple devices while allowing applications to discover them dynamically.

Historique d'adoption

serialosc became the standard background service used by monome software libraries and creative-coding environments. Official documentation points users toward intermediary integrations in Max and SuperCollider, and the project is distributed through Homebrew for current macOS installations.

Modes d'utilisation

Applications query serialoscd on UDP port 12002 to discover connected controllers, then communicate with each device's dynamically assigned OSC port. Persistent per-device files retain OSC prefixes, destination hosts and ports, and grid rotation settings.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

serialosc is a specialized but influential hardware daemon that cleanly separates USB device transport from music and creative-coding applications through Open Sound Control. Its per-device processes, Bonjour discovery, stable OSC vocabulary, and persistent device preferences let many independent tools share a common monome interface.

Chronologie

• Early monome software era: monomeserial provided the earlier serial communication service.
• Later multi-device era: serialosc superseded monomeserial with per-device OSC processes and Bonjour discovery.
• Current era: monome documents Homebrew installation and service management for macOS.

Related projects

• Official ecosystem integrations include the serialosc object for Max and monomeSC for SuperCollider. libmonome provides lower-level monome application support, while the older monomeserial service predates serialosc.

Sources

• Official OSC reference: https://monome.org/docs/serialosc/osc/
• Official repository: https://github.com/monome/serialosc
• Official serialosc documentation: https://monome.org/docs/serialosc/