Revisiting this topic:

On Sep 21, 2009, at 3:01 PM, pd-list-request@iem.at wrote:

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I am a newbie to PD (but not to programming) and i was unable to
find the archives to this list to search for my question before
asking it.

I am interested in running Pd on a headless Mac mini. Where the
mini simply becomes an OSC and MIDI processor. But it will require
Pd to start up with a selected input and output port. It does not
appear to do that. The Tcl/Tk interface does not store the last
known configuration, forcing you to select the in/out manually each
time. I found a set of command line options, such as -miniindev - midioutdev. i tried them along the lines of ./Pd-extended - midioutdev 'midiiac' or -midioutdev 'MidiPipe Input 1' but no luck.
The options appear to befavoring Linux and a device such as /dev/ midi.

Is there a was to have a port configured at startup on the OS X
version? My goal is to simply be able to turn on the mini and
connect using an OSC transmitting device or a controller.

I think you can add the commandline options at the end of the
startupflags in Pd-extended->Preferences->Startup. This is where I
put the name of a patch I want to start whenever I use pd.

Using midiindev, audiodev, etc works fine on OS X if you put it in the
startup options. I added the following to my startup flags:

Pd-extended->Preferences->Startup->startup flags: -audiodev 1 - midiindev 1 -midioutdev 2

audiodev 1 gives me the internal sound card, midiindev and midioutdev
use 2 IAC busses I made for PD.

Your problem might be trying to use the dev by name instead of
number ...

Dan Wilcox danomatika.com robotcowboy.com