How do I control the BrightSign using serial or UDP? (Crestron, AMX, smartphones, tablets, etc.)

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There's no limit to the number of serial/UDP commands you can send to or from the BrightSign player. You setup the player to receive serial/UDP commands using BrightAuthor, where you define the serial/UDP strings that are acceptable. The strings can be used to change from one file to another, pause, resume, change volume, send output, etc.

Creating Presentations that accept UDP (Ethernet/Wireless) commands

http://www.brightsign.biz/training/webinars/#brightauthorapp

Controlling Displays (sending serial commands)

http://www.brightsign.biz/training/tutorials/#serialcontrols

Importing a list of Commands and file names as a csv:

http://support.brightsign.biz/entries/21135706-How-do-I-create-and-import-a-table-for-a-Play-File- 


This video (based on BrightAuthor 2.0) shows you how you can send commands to playlists created using BrightAuthor.

For new control options available on BrightAuthor versions 2.2 and later watch this video. 

Additionally, you can control the BrightSign unit using a script. The link below points to a sample control script and readme. This control script defines a fixed set of playback commands (Play, Stop, Search, Loop, Pause, Resume, etc). Just copy the autorun.brs script and your content to a flash card, and you're ready to send/receive commands. The script also provides feedback when a command is received, when a file is found, when a file loops, etc.

You can also download the files from this link: Brightsign Control Script

Note: For serial commands, BrightAuthor assumes the incoming string is terminated with a carriage return. This can be changed under File > Presentation Properties. 

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    Sereni Elettronica

    Hi, I would like to navigate into a website from UDP commands ("Up", "Down", "Right", "Left", "OK", "Back" for example), is it possibile?

    Thank you

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    Romain B

    Hello, I have been trying to use the control script "autorun.brs" on a LS424 player without success, when I put the script at the root the player won't start. Is there an updated version of this script that support the LS424?

    Thanks

    Romain

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    Lyndon

    I've updated the link so now it should address series 4 properly. 

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    Romain B

    Thank you Lyndon, I managed to make it work, I just had to add support for MKV file as well. Is there a documentation for learning how to make and modify script such as the one you sent?

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    Lyndon

    There's documentation on brightscript in general at docs.brightsign.biz. There's some examples, but it doesn't walk you through building any specific solution samples.  But, it covers how the scripting works and how to run scripts. There are some examples. I can post or send an example if I already have one that covers some function you want to perform...

     

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    Romain B

    Thanks Lyndon, my needs are quite basic at the moment I just need to be able to play and stop videos that are on the SD card of the brighstignplayer.

    One thing I need to know is what value I should put in the line bellow to be able to output the audio to the USB:

    settings.AudioOutput=4 '4 - hdmi & analog

    ?

    I have looked here https://docs.brightsign.biz/display/DOC/BrightScript but couldn't find any reference to it so far.

    Thank you

    Romain

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    Alfonso Descalzo

    I´m using the latest script but the player is answering INVL all the time and saturate the network.

    Do you know if there´s any kind of bug?

    Thanks

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    Alfonso Descalzo

    Just FYI.

    I deleted the line 566 "m.SendResponse("INVL")" and now is working fine. 

    Regards

     

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