So I spent a fair bit of time this past week mocking up how a video/funscript player might work and have the basics in place. It's definitely going to be at least a multi-week project unfortunately if not longer. The biggest hurdle is how script to toy connections work in XToys and that it's really not designed for having the pattern selection be a user choice fr...
2021-05-22 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostPhew, LOTS done this week.
Most of the online session changes I had planned are live now. 😊
XToys now has in-app chat including notifications on Android (haven't tested iOS yet).
Hosts can now disable their own controls if they want.
You can now put in info that pops up for people when they connect to your session (...
2021-05-15 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been one of those frustrating coding weeks.
A recent update to some of the tools I use forced me on to Webpack 5, which has taken days to resolve all the breaking changes and to get the site to compile again.
I realized the Android app has a generic default package ID instead of a proper app.xtoys ones. Changing that is going to cause the app to show up twice on peoples phones ...
2021-05-08 12:21:49 +0000 UTC View PostSoo much done this week and things are mostly ready for getting 1.0 published. 🎉
The 1.0 updates are available for testing at https://dev.xtoys.app.
Well that was a wonderfully successful week. 😊
This past week ended up being non-stop backend related changes.
Not too much got done this week, some home repair projects are currently consuming most of my time.
I'm about half way through adding support for Kiiroo toys (and the easy offshoots from them like the Fleshlight Launch and OhMiBod Esca 2). Controlling the speed of stroking toys is done and I've implemented position controls but I realized in testing that a position ...
2021-02-21 15:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Discord bot is live and appears to be working well. What a pain it was to deal with the non-stop list of edge cases and Discord rate limits. There's a few little things I want to add still like a command to move your XToys status to the bottom of the screen, and a command to see who in the channel is sending the most updates (to block a user if they're continually rate limiting the bot and ...
2021-02-14 18:41:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis past week I got the Lovense USB dongle working. The other toys I planned on working on adding support for still haven't shown up.
So instead I went back to work on the XToys Discord bot!
The bot as currently planned is going to have 4 ways of interacting with it.
I finally finished the work to use audio files for audio e-stim toys. What a surprisingly difficult task that was to get it to work nicely in online sessions. There's still a few bugs most notably that the audio stutters a bit.
I've also been doing a bit of work at fixing up ads and affiliate links.
My next goal is likely to add support for some new toys. ...
2021-01-31 19:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe XToys Game Monitor program is finished and working really well. There wasn't much else published over this past week since the Game Monitor needed multiple security updates and fixes once I started tested it with more games.
The next major thing I'm working on is support for uploading audio files for use as patterns with audio e-stim devices. I've got the storage s...
2021-01-24 14:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis past week I finally set up a proper server for webRTC so people should be able to connect to each others sessions even when they're behind complex networking configurations.
I'll probably spend some time this week cleaning up how saving/restoring layouts works since that's been neglected for quite a while. I still need to finish a few things planned from the past couple weeks like di...
2021-01-17 04:07:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis past week I added support for Vibease and Vorze toys.
I also got distracted from my work on Teases and instead gave myself a crash course on assembly and monitoring Windows processes.
I now have a working prototype of a Windows tool that can monitor values in any (single player) game and report that value back to XToys to use as a trigger. It currently can ...
2021-01-10 21:21:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis past week I did a bunch more work on support for Teases. I've got images, text, and videos working as well as being able to create a Tease by just passing in a Pornhub URL + funscript.
I still haven't figured out how I'm approaching buttons/user choice and visible timers and such. And the way I'm supporting Pornhub videos is very messy. Essentially I'm blocking ifram...
2021-01-03 02:44:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis past week I did some work on Teases support but it'll still be a while. I also added some API support which was a fairly simple bit of work for me but should lead to some cool things from other developers in the future.
This week I'm primarily working on adding positional support for The Handy. Their 3.0 firmware isn't out yet to control the position directly so I'm just adding the a...
2020-12-27 13:55:48 +0000 UTC View PostWell it turns out I spent this past week working on the one thing I didn't want to. 😅
This week might be slow. I'm off work but Christmas is such a busy time even with the pandemic preventing family gatherings.
I think I want to just spend the week working on the whole 'Teases' thing I had mentioned in a past post. I can't see it being finished any time soon so there might be no ...
2020-12-20 14:39:29 +0000 UTC View PostI have no idea what I'm working on next.
This past week was extremely successful. Syncing toy state during online sessions was finished, online sessions got a ton of new settings, there's a new view mode, the dev behind IoST Index added a column listing all the toys that work with XToys.
And I expected all that to take the entire month so now I don't really know what I want to work ...
2020-12-13 13:48:23 +0000 UTC View PostSo it turned out that math.js is...huge. Like as large of the rest XToys combined. There's a lesson there about paying attention to what you import. So I spent a while cutting down what I use from that package and how and it's a third of the size now and the site loads much faster.
I also finally cleaned up the Bluetooth connection code into a clean single common ...
2020-12-07 03:11:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis work is still ongoing but it should be done today or tomorrow.
Scripts will now connect to parts of a toy instead of an entire toy. So you can write a script for toys with accelerometers or for toys with rotators and have the script work for any toys that have those parts.
I'll basically being using the Input/Output list from 2020-11-29 13:55:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Allowing scripts to react to how fast you're moving the Lovense Max or Nora. This is technically already done and ready to go but it's leading into the next bigger issue which is making me hesitate pushing out the update.
Having scripts connect to either a 'Generic' toy or a specific brand of toy has been ...
2020-11-24 23:59:55 +0000 UTC View PostXToys uses a lot of modern web technologies and it simply wouldn't have been possible to develop the app a few years ago.
XToys is built on top of Quasar which just hit it's 1.0 milestone back in February 2019. Quasar is a framework that sites on top of Vue.js and provides a lot of helpful additional features and pre-built UI cont...
2020-11-06 01:09:54 +0000 UTC View Post