Some code for playing with the Teenage Engineering Ortho Remote

ortho-remote

C program for interfacing with the
Teenage Engineering Ortho Remote.

  • Currently only implemented for macOS
  • Puts the remote into MIDI mode which means it has a fixed range of values

Usage

Either build and run the provided ortho program
or copy the source files in src into your project and use the ortho.h interface.

Example

#include "ortho.h"
#include <stdlib.h> // malloc & free
#include <stdio.h>  // printf

static void onmsg(const OrthoMsg* msg, void* userdata) {
  switch (msg->ev) {
    case ORTHO_RESTING: printf("button is up\n"); break;
    case ORTHO_PRESSED: printf("button is down\n"); break;
    case ORTHO_VALUE:   printf("value %f\n", msg->value); break;
    default:            printf("%s\n", ortho_event_name(msg->ev));
  }
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  Ortho* ortho = ortho_create(malloc, free);
  if (!ortho) {
    return 1;
  }
  ortho_runloop(ortho, onmsg, NULL);
  ortho_free(ortho);
  return 0;
}

Build & run:

$ make
$ ./ortho
CONNECT
button is up
value 0.007874
value 0.000000
value 0.007874
value 0.015748
value 0.023622
value 0.031496
button is down
value 0.039370
value 0.047244
button is up
value 0.055118
...

GitHub

https://github.com/rsms/ortho-remote