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Hello

I have been trying to do this for a long time, and I cannot make it work.

 

Here is my situation... I have a screen, that I need to have a screensaver on (or black screen) but when motion triggered goes to a presentation that grabs info from a server for calendar events.

I have the presentation working and functional that displays the calendar events.

I have a presentation that is a black screen html presentation.

I have a motion sensor that plugs into the GPIO (MD755)

So I have tried to have the initial state as the black presentation and switch to the calendar on trigger.... Cannot get it to function.

I need it to trigger to this and then set another event to go back to the black presentation. Can someone help? I have posted before and gotten a few answers, but I just am missing something because I cannot get this to work so if possible step by step would help.

Thank you very much

 

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    A single presentation should be enough.

     

    I'm assuming that you are trying to avoid display burn-in, by the static calendar grid...

     

    Here is what I'm thinking.

    Create a single presentation.

    The Initial state, is a Text state, without any text, which would give you the black screen.

    Use the GPIO event to move to an HTML5 state upon motion detected, that shows the calendar.

    Use a timer to go back from the HTML5 state, to the Text state.

    The timer could probably be set to a couple of minutes, so when nobody is looking at the screen, it will go to black.

     

    Instead of the Text state, you could use a nice video, that doesn't have anything stationary in its content, to act as a screen saver.

     

    I hope that helped 

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    Chris Stambaugh Ctr

    Thank you for the prompt reply.

    What is a text state?

    and I have looked everywhere in my BA for a timer, and could not find one.

     

    This sounds like it would work great, but I have no idea how to accomplish this. The problem is if I do the presentation I want to do, which includes a calendar, and rss feed, clock, etc, BrightSign crashes every time. I finally got what we wanted with the different zones for the one presentation. The monitor its going on is older, and Plasma, and has to have a black screen or a moving screen (maybe video in the future, baby steps)  Im still trying to figure out how this functions completely.

     

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    Live Text (Text state)

     

    Timer event

     

     

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    Chris Stambaugh Ctr

    Ahhh, see mine was labeled timeout event. Let me play with this a bit. MUCH appreciated... Ill post back when I get something working, Im setting up a mock location to test this then back to figuring the trigger for the motion sensor.

     

    Thank you kindly

    Chris

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    ^UD\_$

    With pleasure

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    After setup, in my mock location I was able to set this using 2 presentations. One that can be modified for something but black screen now, and then my calendar events presentation. The only thing I need to do now is figure out how to extend the GPIO cable for the sensor about 40 feet. Should not be difficult if I find the wires it uses for the trigger and then extend those using some cabling we have laying around.

    The other thing I need to mess with is figuring out how to limit or reset the sensor after a short period, it can get stuck on one presentation and if there is enough motion will not trigger until it resets itself. (no motion for a few seconds)

     

    Thank you for your input it helped GREATLY and saved much of my hair!

    Chris

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    How long do you need it to stay on the calendar before going back to black when there is no motion?

    Can you share a link to your presentation?

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    Chris Stambaugh Ctr

    Cannot share a link, its internal only, but I currently have it set to 6 seconds for testing, but it will be about 5 minutes or so... that Im not sure yet, what I saw, was that when it is in the triggered state to change from screensaver to calendar, and there is motion, and it reaches the time to switch back, if there is still motion, it will go to screensaver and stay there regardless of motion until the area is free of motion for a few seconds. That should be ok though, unless I can add a block for the trigger that would reset the sensor when going to screensaver. I think I saw something in one of the functions to do that.

    My boss is happy, so that means I get to come back tomorrow... HA!

    Chris

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    Success!

    What sensor are you using?

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    Chris Stambaugh Ctr

    MD755

    http://www.marchettieng.com/alt/md755-rev9.pdf

     

    Going to be mounting it near the floor against the door so it is triggered when someone walks in. When there is no motion, it will go off. or to black to not burn in the screen. Hopefully we will upgrade to a LED screen soon. The screen currently is using a Intel Compute stick stand alone running a webpage that we use for tours and all. The monitor is 90 inches. The next step is to make the Monitor switch inputs with a button not a remote. The fun never ends!

     

     

     

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