Restim: e-stim audio generation software

[diglet]

@Electro: I thought about implementing something like that but never did. My idea was to create a customizable curve that adjusts the volume according to the recent script 'velocity'. This way users can experiment with higher or lower volume during the 'fast' sections. The problem I had was that script velocity is a concept that's difficult to define.

You can try generating some volume funscripts yourself. Either with code, or with OpenFunScripter. It's a simple concept but I think quite hard to do well.


In other news, there's a new release: v1.15 https://github.com/diglet48/restim/releases

Changelog:

• Fix safety issue when using funscripts that set the pulse width to less than 3 cycles.
• Fix MPC-HC not working when interface language is set to german.
• Automatically enable vibration if there are vibration funscripts loaded.
• Load funscripts from folders and zip files with the same name as the video.

Edit: this release broke VLC. Will make a new release later.

[thebears73]

Im struggling with getting v1.4 to work, in the synce media section i am adding "ADD FUNSCRIPT" and it just crashes. just trying to get all the scripts to load for Vi33 to play through.

Exact same issue im getting.

[Kelvinator]

Ran Restim Ver 1.14 last night (selected MPC-HC as the video player) with Klinik Industries V1.33 and then with Tranquilizer. It was such a unique experience. I had varied and pleasurable stim sensations in places I've never felt before. I love Restim's new feature to sync media. All I have to do is start Restim and MPC-HC (selecting the media folder in MPC-HC), and start playing videos and stimming. Also test ran Ver 1.15 tonight and it works for me. Thanks Diglet. K

[digitalparkinglot]

Hey Diglet,

I am loving all the new controls you are building into Restim. I am wondering if it would it be possible for you to implement funscript control over the 'Calibration' parameters and also the 'Adjust Limits' parameters? I know it sounds counter intuitive to mess with a control used to dial everything in to feel even, but I think it could be an interesting way to introduce a variety of sensations into the signal. I've been playing around with only varying the 'Top Rotation' angle and finding a lot of subtle variety in the sensations. I think funscript control over these parameters could introduce a whole new way to play and discover new estim sensations.

Thank you SO MUCH for this wonderful tool and thank you for your tremendous generosity to this community. I know we all really appreciate it!!!.

-digitalparkinglot

[Thedrop1987]

This app sounds amazing, keen to try it.

Quick non-technical/noob question- I use a coyote with xtoys
If I want to play an estim video in the MH media player, I can get Restim to point to the video output, but how do I get xtoys to point to Restim for the signal?

Thanks:)

[47dahc]

Edit: this release broke VLC. Will make a new release later.

I think it might have broke funscript conversion as well. Issue submitted on github.

I got this when converting a script:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "qt_ui\funscript_conversion_dialog.py", line 44, in convert
  File "funscript\funscript.py", line 45, in from_file
  File "funscript\funscript.py", line 20, in sha1_hash
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'open'

Converts fine with previous version and same funscript.

Other than that, I was able to get it all synced with MFP. I haven't tried the internal sync/player(s) yet. Keep up the great work. I appreciate it as I'm sure the rest of the estim community does as well.

[darthjj]

@darthjj

I will implement continuous reconnect for intiface central soon. Initially I did not implement it because intiface didn't like reconnects, but that appears to be fixed.

I'm a puzzled by the VLC error. The documentation states QUrl('some string') is equivalent with QUrl.fromEncoded(b'some bytearray'), so that substitution does not have any effect. I noticed you also removed url.toLocalFile(), this results in a crash on windows. I suspect you may have changed something else and that fixed the problem?

Can you send me the contents of http://127.0.0.1:8080/requests/playlist.xml? Is VLC using the english interface language?

I tested intiface and it just works. I can't reproduce it on my end and I have no idea where to look.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>


<node name="" ro="rw" id="0">
<node name="Playlist" ro="ro" id="1">
<leaf uri="file:///mnt/storage/Downloads/.unfinished/vid/Avery%20Sweet/Ms.%20A.%20Sweet%20In%20Perfect%20Scene-U1i4nt6Ftvp.mp4" id="3" ro="rw" current="current" name="Ms. A. Sweet In Perfect Scene-U1i4nt6Ftvp.mp4" duration="1904"/></node>
<node name="Media Library" ro="ro" id="2"></node></node>

VLC is in English, I'm guessing url.toLocalFile() is not needed either because I'm on Linux (maybe it does some forward-backward-slash conversion on Windows?) or because of the particular Qt version I'm using.

I suspect QUrl.fromEncoded() only does byte-encoding, but does not convert %20 to space characters.

[diglet]

Edit: this release broke VLC. Will make a new release later.

I think it might have broke funscript conversion as well. Issue submitted on github.

Thanks, I fixed it. Will make a new release in a few days.

This app sounds amazing, keen to try it.

Quick non-technical/noob question- I use a coyote with xtoys
If I want to play an estim video in the MH media player, I can get Restim to point to the video output, but how do I get xtoys to point to Restim for the signal?

Thanks:)

You can do that but it's quite annoying to set up. Use voicemeeter to create a virtual audio device, then setup restim to output to the voicemeeter virtual audio device and xtoys to listen to the virtual audio device. I tested this but it didn't work that well, the coyote can't change the signal fast enough to keep up with the funscripts because the device is only capable of changing the signal 10 times per second. I think the new coyote 3.0 will work better.

You might be better off with DG Labs GUI: https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/dg-lab ... 1-0/144399

Hey Diglet,

I am loving all the new controls you are building into Restim. I am wondering if it would it be possible for you to implement funscript control over the 'Calibration' parameters and also the 'Adjust Limits' parameters? I know it sounds counter intuitive to mess with a control used to dial everything in to feel even, but I think it could be an interesting way to introduce a variety of sensations into the signal. I've been playing around with only varying the 'Top Rotation' angle and finding a lot of subtle variety in the sensations. I think funscript control over these parameters could introduce a whole new way to play and discover new estim sensations.

Thank you SO MUCH for this wonderful tool and thank you for your tremendous generosity to this community. I know we all really appreciate it!!!.

-digitalparkinglot

I see your point, but these features are really intended to adjust the signal for your individual electrode config.

I think that you're really asking for a way to improve the funscript conversion. Maybe add some randomness in the top/bottom position of the stroke, have sections in the video where the stroking is more on the balls rather than the head. All that information can already be encoded into the alpha/beta funscripts. Rather than adding more funscripts to do things you can already do, I prefer to see the scene move in the direction of more sophisticated funscript generation.

The MistressAndControlBox video is a good example of how I think it should be done. That stim is made up of a limited number of patterns that are repeated and varied in code. The output is an mp3, but could just as well have been alpha+beta+volume. This approach is much more flexible than tacking on additional axis in Restim... and I don't have to program it.

I tested this many times with file paths containing spaces. I think there may be something weird with your setup, but I have no idea what.

[edger477]

digitalparkinglot wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:36 pm
Hey Diglet,

I am loving all the new controls you are building into Restim. I am wondering if it would it be possible for you to implement funscript control over the 'Calibration' parameters and also the 'Adjust Limits' parameters? I know it sounds counter intuitive to mess with a control used to dial everything in to feel even, but I think it could be an interesting way to introduce a variety of sensations into the signal. I've been playing around with only varying the 'Top Rotation' angle and finding a lot of subtle variety in the sensations. I think funscript control over these parameters could introduce a whole new way to play and discover new estim sensations.

Thank you SO MUCH for this wonderful tool and thank you for your tremendous generosity to this community. I know we all really appreciate it!!!.

-digitalparkinglot
I see your point, but these features are really intended to adjust the signal for your individual electrode config.

I think that you're really asking for a way to improve the funscript conversion. Maybe add some randomness in the top/bottom position of the stroke, have sections in the video where the stroking is more on the balls rather than the head. All that information can already be encoded into the alpha/beta funscripts. Rather than adding more funscripts to do things you can already do, I prefer to see the scene move in the direction of more sophisticated funscript generation.

Hey @digitalparkinglot! I'd recommend to take this plugin for OFS: https://discuss.eroscripts.com/t/my-too ... pter/61434

It can generate additional points in a slow funscript, that you can use to add wave function, but you can also add wave function that is slower than stroking, to make fun patterns like these I did for RoD EE:

[diglet]

New release v1.16: https://github.com/diglet48/restim/releases

Release notes:

• Store application logs in %appdata%
• Add pulse rise time control
• Add error checking and UI hints for broken funscripts
• Fix VLC connection problem introduced in v1.15
• Fix funscript loading on linux/OSX

This release was built with a newer python and windows versions, let me know if you experience any new issues running this on older operating systems.

I haven't taken the time to look into the VLC issues from @darthjj yet.

[darthjj]

I tested this many times with file paths containing spaces. I think there may be something weird with your setup, but I have no idea what.

You use Windows, right? Could be Qt behaving differently on Linux

[diglet]

I tested this many times with file paths containing spaces. I think there may be something weird with your setup, but I have no idea what.

You use Windows, right? Could be Qt behaving differently on Linux

I can't see Qt behaving differently on different platforms for the code you showed me.

I was able to install ubuntu in a VM and found one issue, but it wasn't related to spaces. The problem was this line:

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self.media_player.setMedia(QMediaContent(QUrl(the_file)))

Which interprets the file as a network path. QUrl.fromLocalFile should be used(). I just pushed a fix to master.

Afterwards I got a gstreamer error, and I had to do:

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apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

To fix it.

The only thing this code does it detect the media duration from the local file, because the VLC API only gives the duration with seconds resolution.

[Pinco]

Hi diglet, first of all restim is a great piece of software... but very odd things happening; last week I was using restim->MFP->MVP and it was all OK, I also used restim->MFP->OFS to add volume/frequency to existing funscripts and it was OK.
Suddenly these configs are not working anymore. The only way to load all funscripts in restim (like in your Klinik Vi33a) is chosing in SyncMedia VLC.
Using MFP (choosing Internal in SyncMedia) I see restim connected through WebSocket, all funscripts loaded in MFP but none show up in restim Funscripts(auto-detect) and starting the video I see that restim is processing only alpha, beta and volume.
I'm using Win10, restim 1.16, MFP 1.29.3, OFS 3.2.0, VLC 3.0.20

Any suggestion? As far as I remember I have not changed any configuration from the working one
Thanks

[edger477]

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Any suggestion? As far as I remember I have not changed any configuration from the working one

Maybe check this? viewtopic.php?t=26827

I think the axis names/codes might have changed, make sure all is configured same in MFP device.

[Pinco]

I did and double checked it is OK; even with only alpha, beta config in the restim->MFP->MPV the funscripts(Auto-detect) doesn't show anything