For a retail customer we connected a barcode scanner to a Brightsign. Now the customer has 1000+ different barcodes that has to trigger different content. Does anyone has a suggestion how I can integrate this in a Brightsign project without having to add 1000 separate USB event. Can I upload a table or anything, and if so, how? Thanks for the help!
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Bright Scripters Creating a BrightAuthor plugin or custom autorun.brs tailored for this project seems to be the way to go.
Alternatively, a carefully crafted xml feed could be combined with an On Demand state in BrightAuthor Conncted, which might be even a better solution.
In retail, one should expect products to be added and or removed, which makes a dynamically generated feed a suitable solution. It is key to have access to an API of sorts which would provide the most up to date list of products/barcodes
Naming media files based on the barcode, could help managing such task.
< barcode string>.mp4
Have you guys found a solution by now?
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l.clasen I've got myself almost in the same situation, but still got no real answer.
My first thought was to send the usb-input to a server running node-red, who would answer with a udp string stating wich video to play next.
But i don't know how to insert the incoming usb string into a variable.. maybe sombody knows?
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Job van der Lans Ask Brightscripters, they build a solution for me that works perfectly
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aionic I also want to know how to add a string obtained using USB Input Event into a user variable.
Something like "Assign input to a variable" -> "Specify fixed variable" that is available for Serial Input Event
would be good. But this is not available for USB Input Event.