Hi all,

I'm on an old MacBook Pro running High Sierra and trying to run neurorobot.m with just my webcam and no robot, with the following settings:

%% Settings
rak_only = 0;
camera_present = 1;
use_webcam = 1;
hd_camera = 1;
use_cnn = 0; % requires gpu
use_rcnn = 0;
grey_background = 1;
vocal = 1; % custom sound output
supervocal = 1;
brain_gen = 0; % brain build
pulse_period = 0.1; % in seconds
matlab_audio_rec = 1;
audio_th = 2;
microcircuit = 0;

However, when I do, I get this message:

>> neurorobot
---------
Error using tts (line 33)
Microsoft Win32 SAPI is required.

Error in neurorobot (line 196)
        this_wav = tts(this_word,'Microsoft David Desktop - English (United
        States)',[],16000);

Is there a way I should be installing Microsoft SAPI? And which version? Alternatively, is there a setting I can change so that it won't rely in SAPI? Thanks!

Sadly the Mario brain is giving me this error. :(

Unknown synapse type
Unknown synapse type
Unknown synapse type

Brace indexing is not supported for variables of this type.

Error in draw_brain (line 274)
                        plot_contact_synapses(nneuron, ncontact, 4) = text(x2b, y2b, audio_out_names{neuron_tones(nneuron)}, 'fontsize', bfsize - 4, 'verticalalignment', 'middle', 'horizontalalignment', 'center', 'FontWeight', 'bold');

Error in update_brain_name_edit (line 59)
    draw_brain
 
Error while evaluating UIControl Callback.

Corrupted some *.mat files

There is an issue with corrupted *.mat files at some point. It is because those files are marked as large files and in that case it is necessary to use git lfs while pushing those files via git. It is working with Terminal on macOS, but it seems an issue with GitHub Desktop app.
Pay attention to this in the future.

If I am connected to RAK and I select "Karl" brain:
simulation will run but it will crash on line 11 in update_bran.m:
vis_I(nneuron) = vis_I(nneuron) + sum(vis_pref_vals(these_prefs, ncam));

because
"these_prefs" that is loaded from brain mat file is 1x9 logical array and
"vis_pref_vals" is 6x2 double
when "ncam" is 2 logical indexing goes out of array "vis_pref_vals" bounds with error:

The logical indices in position 1 contain a true value outside of the array bounds.

If I try to connect to the RAK module using the C++ library but forget to connect to the module's WiFi first I get this output:

openStreams >> SharedMemory >>> opened
SharedMemory >>> init
openStreams >> VideoAndAudioObtainer >>> opened

then Matlab freezes. It's a hard freeze: to close and restart matlab I have to click the 'End now' button in the 'Matlab not responding' dialog box twice.

Can we change it so the app aborts the connection attempt if OS is not connected to a WiFi beginning with "LTH" (RAK standard) or add a try/catch or timeout or something so I can just get a quick error/reminder instead of crash?

Some brains have neurons connected to themselves

List of brains with issue:

• Chopin
• Mocho
• Momo
• Opportunity
• Reservoir
• Vomba

In matrix: connectome for brains above, there are neurons which have some value more than zero for the same column number (e.g. row 3, column 3). which means it is connected to it self.

Issue with building C++ application with mex command:
xcodebuild: error: SDK "macosx10.15.4" cannot be located.

Solution:
link