The PC implementation is independent and DOES support multiple concurrent
IOIOs in its current form.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Richard Wright <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Does the single IOIO device assumption apply equally to PC-based solutions
> (Windows or Linux)? I was under the impression that I could have 2-4 boards
> plugged into one PC for when I need to scale up a bit higher. Is that only
> possible with some non-standard version of the IOIO libraries?
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 1:29:22 AM UTC-6, Ytai wrote:
>>
>> There's nothing physical that I can think of that should prevent this
>> from working. However, the current library assumes at most a single IOIO
>> device.
>> To change that, you'd need to rewrite
>> https://github.com/ytai/ioio/blob/master/software/IOIOLibAndroidDevice/src/main/java/ioio/lib/android/device/DeviceConnectionBootstrap.java
>>  so
>> that its getFactories() method returns multiple factories, each one
>> corresponding to a single possible IOIO connection. Then you'd probably
>> want to refactor the other methods to get the device as argument rather
>> than assume a single device. One shortcoming of the current design is that
>> the total number of possible IOIOs needs to be known when the app starts,
>> as a thread is created up-front for each one, which sits and waits for its
>> IOIO to connect. But you can get away with just choosing an arbitrary
>> number (e.g. 2) and return the respective number of factories.
>>
>> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Stephen Rogers <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Apologies if this has been asked before, I've looked through a lot of
>>> threads but can't see anything that answers exactly what I'm doing.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to connect 2 IOIO boards to a single android tablet via USB
>>> only - here's what I think I know, is this right?
>>>
>>> - If I connect the IOIOs to a PC I can connect to them using the
>>> CreateIOIOLooper overload with the extra parameter corresponding to the
>>> serial port on the PC
>>> - I can also probably connect using 2 different bluetooth dongles, but I
>>> can't do this in this instance and am trying to use USB
>>> - If I connect a IOIO to a tablet over OpenAccessory the IOIO becomes
>>> the USB host and there's no way I can have 2 of them, so I leave USB
>>> debugging on so it works over ADB
>>> - My android tablet needs to be able to be a USB host (I'm pretty sure
>>> it is I've tried some of the USB host apps to check)
>>> - I need to use a USB B cable in the IOIO (rather than the red OTG cable
>>> that it came with) and a micro B to female A OTG cable (I have this
>>> https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00B4GGW5Q/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
>>> in the tablet to make the tablet the host
>>>
>>> Suffice to say I've not managed to get this to work yet, and here's what
>>> I can't work out
>>>
>>> - Will the libraries work with this set-up?
>>> - Do I need to change anything to have the tablet communicate with both
>>> IOIOs, say in IOIOLibAndroidDevice?
>>> - Is this something that's going to work?
>>>
>>> Stephen
>>>
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