OSCanity

Sanity for OSC. See what I did there?

oscanity in action

OSCanity is a command-line utility for testing sending and receiving OSC messages.

Usage

If you have downloaded the compiled release binaries, you can simply run either executable from your command-line, e.g. ./send or ./receive

If you have cloned/downloaded the source code instead, you can use cargo run --bin release or cargo run --bin send

Example command - listen for incoming OSC messages:

osc-receive 0.0.0.0:12345

This would listen on all network interfaces (0.0.0.0 on the port 12345). Substitute your own values (especially the port) as needed.

Example command - send messages OSC messages to localhost:

osc-send 127.0.0.1:12345

This sets up a default "sending" host of 127.0.0.1:8080, and sends OSC messages to the destination 127.0.0.1:12345 (in this case localhost).

If you need it, you can include the host address as well:

osc-send 192.168.1.130:5555 127.0.0.1:12345

Now the "sending" host is 192.168.1.130:555 and the destination is as before.

The sending CLI does nothing at first (apart from validating any address settings).

Type messages in the format /address arg1 arg2 ... followed by Enter/Return.

OSC types for messages are auto-detected. For example, the command:

/test hello 1 2 3.0 four

... will produce an OSC message with the address /test followed by 5 arguments, each with the expected type:

final args: [String("hello"), Int(1), Int(2), Float(3.0), String("four")]

This is my first working software written in Rust, so be nice.

The hard stuff is done by the library I am depending on here, rosc - "an implementation of the OSC 1.0 protocol in pure Rust".