[L2Ork-dev] Creating a unique identifier for each pd client

Sam Thursfield ssssam at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 14:40:42 EDT 2020


 Hi Ivica,

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 7:22 PM Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:
> Any ideas on how to generate a unique ID to each client without manual
> user interaction and in a way that is platform-agnostic? I imagine one
> could leverage client's network MAC address or unique computer
> identifier but am unaware of how this can be retrieved in an OS-agnostic
> way inside pd-l2ork/purr-data.

This library looks like it would work if you are able to add or embed
an external dependency: https://github.com/graeme-hill/crossguid
Disclaimer: I havenĀ“t tried it myself

Sam


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