Smartphone remote

Resources Released Add-ons and Extensions
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Have you tried a manual connection ?
By pressing the connection button firefox_d52l2R1iow in the android application and entering the ip address displayed in the bottom of the QrCode in the addon pannel

Could you try to ping your phone from you computer and chack if you have Destination host unreachable in the result?

  1. Get your phone ip address
  2. In a windows command prompt type ping your_phone_ip_address
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I knew I was connected because that button changed it’s color.
But now that I tried typing the ip manually I got an error on blender!

I also got the camera getting captured for a moment, but didn’t pay attention, I think it stopped a couple of secconds later.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\xdani\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.83\scripts\addons\smartphone_remote_001a\operators.py”, line 376, in modal
result = function()

File “C:\Users\xdani\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.83\scripts\addons\smartphone_remote_001a\operators.py”, line 256, in export_cached_scene
filter_glob=".glb;.gltf"

File “C:\Users\xdani\Desktop\blender-2.83-c2e62c129235-windows64\2.83\scripts\modules\bpy\ops.py”, line 199, in call
ret = op_call(self.idname_py(), C_dict, kw, C_exec, C_undo)
RuntimeError: Error: Traceback (most recent call last):

File “C:\Users\xdani\Desktop\blender-2.83-c2e62c129235-windows64\2.83\scripts\addons\io_scene_gltf2_init_.py”, line 468, in execute
if hasattr(sys.modules[addon_name], ‘glTF2ExportUserExtension’):
KeyError: ‘mesh_mesh_align_plus’

location: C:\Users\xdani\Desktop\blender-2.83-c2e62c129235-windows64\2.83\scripts\modules\bpy\ops.py:199

location: :-1

EDIT: I opened blender without administrator permissions this final time and got no error.
Also now I know what happened exactly the previous time it worked for a few seconds: camera works, but if I suggest scene update I get the error and the camera stops as well.

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I am investigating on possible issues, I keep you in touch as soon as I found something.
I will publish a small apk update soon with more logs in order to help !
Sorry for the bugs :confused:

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Hi guys! When I point to qr-code the application crashes. Maybe there is another version of the application smartphone_remote.apk?
Or what can I do?

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Hi @Djusi,
Some questions to start the investigation:

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Thanks for the quick response!

  1. The version v0.0.3 of the apk is not even installed - the application immediately crashes on note. So I tested 0.0.1 and 0.0.2.
    These versions are working but only the red button appears.

And used the addon version - this

  1. Android 10, Huawei Honor 8X

Maybe I’m doing something wrong?

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@Djusi my bad for the crash you encountered during the v0.0.3, I forgot to update the binaries on gitlab :confused:
Try to download it from here, I it doesn’t crash on startup, you must install the addon v0.0.3 in order to make it work.
More generally, in order to prevent version compatibility errors you should use the same addon and apk version :wink:
So if you use the apk v0.0.2, you should install the addon v0.0.2.

Here are all apk release and all addon release

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Cool! I managed to run! Yes, it is necessary that the versions match. In my case, version 0.0.2 worked.
Thank you! :grinning:
Incredibly cool project, why only so few public !? … :confused:

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Could you please upload a new video? Thanks! I’d like to see this in action.

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Sorry for not responding for a long time.
Here’s a video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mJI-dzxNAgmuMR20Ts2b1S_bgKJ--U1/view?usp=sharing
I work with vfx and have not yet figured out how to record video in parallel (high-quality) and record the position of the camera.
Maybe there is another way?
I run away from camera tracking, but all the time I come back to it :laughing:

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Excuse me, is the Host still studying and updating?
Looking forward to update

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Hi @Jack_John !
I am still working on it during my free time but I progress slowly since I haven’t much time currently :stuck_out_tongue:
It should be faster on September :wink:

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Good luck :+1:

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Forgive me for not answering exactly on the topic, but it seems I found what I was looking for for so long. It would be so great to implement something like this.
Maybe someone will be interested.:

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The addon fails to register if there is no active internet connection. The proper way would be to handle it gracefully and let the user input manual IP addr I think.

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@kkar thanks for the report,
I agree with you !
I will try fix it this week :slight_smile:

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Sounds good. Do you have any plans to support phones that do not have Google AR? I am curious if there a work around for that.

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My plan for the mid-term future is to switch the smartphone remote backend to openXR in order to get it working for all mobile platforms. :slight_smile:

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The camera shakes during operation. Is there a solution? Looking forward to your reply, thank you very much! ! !

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Hi @RLB,
The camera shake is due to the lack of detected features in the environment. You can improve the tracking quality by filming the whole room with the smartphone from different angles (with the remote app open). By doing this, the tracking system shall learn new features and get much more stable.