Restim: e-stim audio generation software

[MrGoGoGirl]

You can click on the diagram to change the power, you don't only need to use the up and down arrows.

But yes I think the idea is to even out the sensation. So you may find that redirecting the power from a high area to another area reduces it, so you might need to then increase the power overall.

I tested this and I now know why I've described the feeling I get from restim as an "on-off" feeling. It's literally that.
When I turn it on and set it to circle to test, the green dot moves around the edges of the circle, from Neutral to L+ and to R+ until it returns to Neutral.

The only time I feel something is when the dot approaches Neutral. I feel the strongest current at Neutral and after that, the feeling gets softer and disapears at L+.

I turnd the Calibrations "Neutral power", "Right power" and "Censter Power" up and down but I was not able to feel something at L+, R+ or between.
The only time I feel the estim is when the green dot is around the top of the circle at Neutral.

I have no idea what that means, can somebody please help me figure out why I don't feel anything at the other two?


Edit: I've now tried out what happens if I unplug the device and just listen to the audio turning my left and right speaker on and off:
- The audio only comes out of the left speaker, when the green dot is at the L+
- The audio only comes out of the right speaker, when the green dot is at the R+
- The audio comes out of both speakers when the green dot is at Neutral

So it looks to me like this is working as intended. Why do I only feel the estim current at neutral and basically feel nothing, when the green dot is at the bottom of the circle between L+ and R+?

[diglet]

This is normal and can be fixed with the calibration controls. The output power at neutral is much stronger than left/right due to how these stim boxes are constructed.

With stereostim, I usually have neutral between -5 and -6. With this value, the signal intensity feels the same regardless of the dot position. The exact value depends on your box and electrodes.

[Pinco]

This is normal and can be fixed with the calibration controls. The output power at neutral is much stronger than left/right due to how these stim boxes are constructed.

With stereostim, I usually have neutral between -5 and -6. With this value, the signal intensity feels the same regardless of the dot position. The exact value depends on your box and electrodes.

Out of curiosity, what are your usual values for Neutral Right & Central?
Is it hard for you to implement in restim different config files taking care of different calibrations for different videos-funscripts?
Thanks

[diglet]

For neutral I use -6 on stereostim and -1.6 on FOC.
For left/right usually 0, because my electrode setup is symmetric in left/right. If I don't use a symmetric setup it's usually -2 to 2.

For center I use -0.6, this value seems to work well on all hardware and electrode configurations.


It doesn't make much sense to add calibration per video/funscript. The calibration depends on your hardware and electrode placement. I could add a feature to save your calibration settings if you change your electrode config often, but these GUI features are not very interesting to work on.

[MrGoGoGirl]

I will try these settings as soon as I get the chance to but in the mean time, Diglet you say you configure R and L but in my restim program, I only have 3 settings for configuring:
* Neutral Power
* Right Power
* Central Power

Am I missing a setting somewhere else or do you mean by chaning your L/R volume-balance in the windows sound settings?

[diglet]

Those are all the settings. Left/right calibration refers to the setting labeled "right power" in the UI.

[MrGoGoGirl]

Ah that's what it means. Man I feel dumb. Thanks! :)

[Pinco]

It doesn't make much sense to add calibration per video/funscript. The calibration depends on your hardware and electrode placement. I could add a feature to save your calibration settings if you change your electrode config often, but these GUI features are not very interesting to work on.

Thanks for the info, I change config when funscripts (ie. the ones I get from eroscript ) are written putting more action on the top (left) or on the bottom (right) and I need to balance or amplify/reduce the actions. What I am asking is a just a "nice to have" feature that maybe you can add when you have "spare time"

[MrGoGoGirl]

For neutral I use -6 on stereostim and -1.6 on FOC.
For left/right usually 0, because my electrode setup is symmetric in left/right. If I don't use a symmetric setup it's usually -2 to 2.

For center I use -0.6, this value seems to work well on all hardware and electrode configurations.


It doesn't make much sense to add calibration per video/funscript. The calibration depends on your hardware and electrode placement. I could add a feature to save your calibration settings if you change your electrode config often, but these GUI features are not very interesting to work on.

I had time to try these settings and wow, this feels amazing.
Thank you so much for helping me, now I have to rewatch a bunch of videos where I discarded the restim files and watched them with an mp3 instead :D

Do you have any other tips regarding the settings I should look into?

[bartman]

Can Restim optionally load/play a mp3 with a matching filename? If not, is there any plan to add a feature like that? There are often custom crafted mp3s or "baked" mp3s which can be generated out of Restim that can accompany a video.

My current setup is to run both Restim & ScriptPlayer at the same time. I point Restim at a *.funscript directory and point ScriptPlayer at my *.mp3 directory. This results in the corresponding audio being output by either Restim or ScriptPlayer relative to what type of stim file matches a given video.

Restim playback of matching mp3 would simplify the process a bit and make it complete solution.

[diglet]

mp3 playback was a planned feature and some point and I even implemented it. But I didn't like how it worked and scrapped it. I have no plans to re-introduce it.

[fossie67]

have downloaded both restim and vlc but cannot get vlc to connect . Can someone walk me thru how to connect the 2 . All i am getting is unable to connect . Thanks

[diglet]

There are basic instructions on getting VLC to connect here: https://github.com/diglet48/restim/wiki ... deo-player.

Let me know if you can't figure it out.

[fossie67]

i dont understand how the vid helps to connect vlc to restim ?

[diglet]

The vid shows how to enable the VLC API, which Restim uses to synchronize the video timestamp. Some of the things later in the video are not relevant.