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[CosmicBen]

Recently I made a plugin for the PONK protocol in Unreal Engine however I am not able to receive PONK data from MadMapper. I was able to get the data form the test project made in TouchDesigner from the PONK GitHub so I believe my plugin is working correctly. Are there some additional settings I need to adjust in MadMapper to use PONK? So far I have only set the laser output to "Publish to PONK" and the IP address to "127.0.0.1". These seem to also be the same values in TouchDesigner so I believe everything should work. To be safe I also tried restarting the my PC between test to make sure the default PONK port was not blocked.

[mad-matt]

I think the issue is that MadMapper is also reading packets on 127.0.0.1. Can you set the IP of one of your network interfaces ? That should solve

[CosmicBen]

Changing the ip address from any to a fixed IP seems to have helped a bit but unfortunately there are still some problems. It seems like metadata is coming in properly from the datagram socket (my code is mostly copied from the PONK examples) but there does not seem to be any point information. I'm also not sure why MadMapper would use the same local port twice by default, but I suppose that can be worked around with setting the IP. Out of curisosity are there any working examples of PONK output working in MadMapper? I can only find documentation for input.

[CosmicBen]

Sorry I just realized my mistake. After enableing some debugging text I realized that I was actually getting the laser data correctly (when using a different IP address, 192.168.1.xxx in my case). The problem was that I expected MadMapper to use a default Sender ID of 0 or 1 (similar to the TouchDesigner example). It turns out for some reason the effect or settings I used were defaulting to Sender ID 12300. After adjusting the code a bit (switched an array to a map) everything seems to be working properly now besides possibly a memory leak I need to sort out.

[Jesse69]

To ensure PONK data transmission from MadMapper to Unreal Engine, verify that MadMapper's "Publish to PONK" setting, IP address (`127.0.0.1`), and port configuration match your plugin setup. Check for port conflicts, network binding issues, and use a tool like Wireshark or a simple PONK listener to confirm data is being sent.
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