FRENCH: The tiptoi pen does not recognize the GME file

[severin-lemaignan]

I've assembled a first album into a GME file, copied the GME file to the pen, and printed the control sheet.

The pen recognizes the pattern on the control sheet, however, it tells the audio files are not available.

As I've read on the tttool issue tracker that it might be necessary to set the language tag to the one of the pen, I've re-assembled a GME file with the language tag set to our pen (FRENCH). It does not however work any better.

Any ideas how I could debug that?

[thawn]

Sorry, I don't have any experiences with pens in other languages than german and I don't have a french pen to test. It seems you have already found ttmp32gme's library location where the yaml and audio files are located so that you can use tttool manually. Beyond that, I cannot provide any help. Please try the tttool mailing list: https://lists.nomeata.de/mailman/listinfo/tiptoi they have been discussing languages and will be happy about feedback and may be able to help you. If you find a solution, please let me know so that I can add language support to ttmp32gme. Best Till

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On 11.02.2017 17:35, Séverin Lemaignan wrote: I've assembled a first album into a GME file, copied the GME file to the pen, and printed the control sheet. The pen recognizes the pattern on the control sheet, however, it tells the audio files are not available. As I've read on the |tttool| issue tracker that it might be necessary to set the language tag to the one of the pen, I've re-assembled a GME file with the language tag set to our pen (FRENCH). It does not however work any better. Any ideas how I could debug that? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABP3IZCyrbGN5troeSb4lRoiLwKxTlPZks5rbeNogaJpZM4L-OHc>.

[thawn]

There is one other thing you could try: when you switched on the pen for the first time after you copy the gme file to the pen, the pen should tell you to wait a moment. If that does not happen, you can try the following: Attach the pen to your computer and mount it. Do NOT write any data to the pen and disconnect it WITHOUT unmounting. This will trigger the pen to do a filesystem scan and scan for new gme files. I hope that helps.

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On 11.02.2017 17:35, Séverin Lemaignan wrote: I've assembled a first album into a GME file, copied the GME file to the pen, and printed the control sheet. The pen recognizes the pattern on the control sheet, however, it tells the audio files are not available. As I've read on the |tttool| issue tracker that it might be necessary to set the language tag to the one of the pen, I've re-assembled a GME file with the language tag set to our pen (FRENCH). It does not however work any better. Any ideas how I could debug that? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABP3IZCyrbGN5troeSb4lRoiLwKxTlPZks5rbeNogaJpZM4L-OHc>.

[creativecat]

I have a similar problem, but with a german pen. I run the ttmp32gme on a Mac. The selected files were successfully added to the pen (I can see the gme file on the pen over the finder).
Printing also runs successfully but the pen doesn't recognize the gme file. I tried different settings for the ink-printer itself (best quality, standard...) and in the browser (resolution etc.)...

In the console I get the following errors (from starting the program until printing):

[MSG] Server running on port: 10020
Open http://127.0.0.1:10020/ in your favorite web browser to continue.

[MSG] using tttool: /var/folders/d8/l2j8p0qs3m372xw63kmvfz5m0000gs/T/par-486f6d656f72646e6572/cache-ba514ff236fd8dd6d248830a52e34eeda8ef9648/inc/lib/tttool
Can't exec "/var/folders/d8/l2j8p0qs3m372xw63kmvfz5m0000gs/T/par-486f6d656f72646e6572/cache-ba514ff236fd8dd6d248830a52e34eeda8ef9648/inc/lib/wkhtmltopdf": No such file or directory at TTMp32Gme/PrintHandler.pm line 169.
Use of uninitialized value $wkhtmltopdf_version in pattern match (m//) at TTMp32Gme/PrintHandler.pm line 170.

[mirkowein]

I've same issues as creativecat.
Neither the old tiptoi nor the new one recognize any of my printed controls. same errors in console, but i don't think the problem has anything to do with the recognition. (only print Page in browser?)
Any suggestions? I've printed with ink and laser.
many thanks!

[thawn]

@creativecat , @mirkowein
Thank you for your bug reports.
Your issues are unrelated to this issue. This issue is specific to problems with the french language and have nothing to do with the pen not recognizing printed pages. I have opened a new issue for your problems here: #11

Please read the pages I have linked in there, they give good advice on getting your printer to work with tttool (which is what ttmp32gme uses to create the oid codes for the print pages).

[thawn]

I am closing this issue as an upstream problem of tttool. Please feel free to reopen it if you manage to create FRENCH language gme files with tttool but not with ttmp32gme.

[rafiberlin]

I am closing this issue as an upstream problem of tttool. Please feel free to reopen it if you manage to create FRENCH language gme files with tttool but not with ttmp32gme.

Hi @thawn,

I have been able to make a slight tweak to make it work with a French firmware.

In src\TTMp32Gme\TttoolHandler.pm

I added these two lines (in italic):

sub make_gme {
my ( $oid, $config, $dbh ) = @_;
my $album = get_album( $oid, $dbh );
$album->{'old_oid'} = $oid;
my $yaml_file = file( $album->{'path'},
sprintf( '%s.yaml', cleanup_filename( $album->{'album_title'} ) ) );
my $fh = $yaml_file->openw();
print $fh "#this file was generated automatically by ttmp32gme\n";
print $fh "product-id: $oid\n";
print $fh "gme-lang: FRENCH\n";
print $fh "comment: CHOMPTECH DATA FORMAT CopyRight 2009 Ver2.4.0316\n";
close($fh);

It would be a great enhancement to have the possibility to configure the gme-lang and comment attributes of the GME file; I assume this would be helpful for any other firmware (ITALIAN, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN...).

PS: Is there a list of working printer I could update? I was able to make it work with a Samsung SCX-4300. In your solution I configured the output to 1200DPI and 2 Pixel; in Adobe PDF Viewer, I checked the box for grayscale printing before printing

[thawn]

@rafiberlin thanks a lot for reporting the fix. I will implement a language selection option in the next release.

[thawn]

Version 0.2.3 now offers a setting in the configuration to change the language. Could someone with a non- German pen please test if this works?

[thawn]

I am making this issue as stale. Unless I hear back from someone who still has problems with different languages within 30 days, I am assuming the problem is fixed and closing this issue.

[thawn]

Please re-open the issue if you still have problems