sendosc

Simple NodeJS script for sending OSC via TCP or UDP originally inspired by this c++ utility of the same name.

Usage

Usage: sendosc [options]

simple util to sendosc

Options:
  -V, --version          output the version number
  --protocol <protocol>  Network protocol (choices: "tcp", "udp", default: "udp")
  --host <host>          the host to send osc to
  --port <port>          the port to send osc to
  --address <address>    OSC address
  --args <args...>       osc args (default: [])
  --slip                 slip encode message (default: false)
  --types <types...>     osc arg types (choices: "s", "i", "f", "b", default: [])
  -h, --help             display help for command

• using npx npx sendosc@latest --host 127.0.0.1 --port 9999 --address /hello
• install using npm install -g sendosc@latest and run sendosc --host 127.0.0.1 --port 9999 --address /hello

Notes

• --types option is a space seperate list of type characters that will determine what the corresponding argument type will be set to
  • optional
  • uses type codes from the OSC spec
• --args option is a space-separated list of arguments. If a corresponding type is not found in the --types option it will default to string (s).
  • blobs (b) are to be entered as hex string representing the buffer to be sent so the ASCII string hello would be 68656c6c6f
• the default protocol is UDP but can be changed to TCP using the --protocol flag

Examples

• sendosc --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 --address /test --args 1.0
• sendosc --protocol tcp --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 --address /this/is/sent/via/tcp
• sendosc --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 --address /test/with/types --args 1 2.0 three --types i f
  • note that types is not the same length as args so the remaining argument (three) will default to string
• sendosc --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 --address /blob --args 68656c6c6f --types b