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General Brightsign Questions

Dave Harriff

October 06, 2008 23:15

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Hello,

I am a custom integrator and I have a special project I am working on. It is essentially a display booth with 3 LCD displays that will show the same image on all 3 but I want to show different scenes on command. For example, I will have 3 booth scenes, morning, evening, and night. When anyone of these scenes is activated, the lighting, audio, and video will change. Can an HD600 or 2000 be programmed to switch to a chapter or scene with an RS-232 command? Or will I need 3 HD600s to accomplish this?

thanks in advance.

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  RokuLyndon October 07, 2008 07:22

  
  
  Dave,
  
  
  
  Yes, the unit can perform any function based on a serial command. I'll include a simple serial script example below. Since serial input isn't supported in the autorun script yet, you'll need to do a custom script for this.
  
  
  
  Your script would flow like the following:
  
  
  
  Start:
  
  Play Image
  
  
  
  
  
  Wait_for_input_or_event:
  
  Wait for serial input / video event input
  
  --while a video is playing, it issues events with numerical values
  
  --3 = still playing, 8 = video end
  
  
  
  If  event received is video event
  
  --check if it's the end of the video
  
  --if it is the end goto play image - if that's what you want to have happen
  
  
  
  Else If serial input = morning, play morning video
  
  
  
  else if serial input = day, play day
  
  
  
  else if serial input = night, play night.
  
  
  
  Go to wait for input/event
  
  
  
  
  
  Here's an example where the script waits for one of two commands to start or stop a video:
  
  
  
  
  
  ------------------start of script------------------
  
  debug=true
  
  
  
  REM ****************************************
  
  REM Initialize Objects
  
  REM **********************************************
  
  REM Initialize Video & serial
  
  
  
  vid=CreateObject("roVideoPlayer")
  
  mode=CreateObject("roVideoMode")
  
  serial=CreateObject("roSerialPort", 0, 38400)
  
  p=CreateObject("roMessagePort")
  
  vid.SetPort(p)
  
  serial.SetLineEventPort(p)
  
  vid.SetAudioOutput(0)
  
  
  
  REM **********************************************************
  
  REM Set Constants & File Names
  
  REM *********************************************************
  
  videomode$="1920x1080x60i"
  
  MEDEN=8 'event id returned when video stops playing
  
  start$="START"
  
  stop_video$="STOP"
  
  vid_to_play$="video.mpg"
  
  
  
  
  
  REM
  
  REM Set the video mode
  
  mode.SetMode(videomode$)
  
  
  
  REM
  
  REM Now we wait for a serial command
  
  REM Assumes an end of line character will be sent
  
  
  
  wait_for_serial:  'this is just a label, the name is arbitrary
  
  msg=wait(0, p)
  
  
  
  if debug print type(msg)
  
  if type(msg) = "roStreamLineEvent" then
  
  
  
  if msg=start$ then
  
  if debug print "Playing file...."
  
  vid.PlayFile(vid_to_play$)
  
  else if msg = stop_video$ then
  
  if debug print "Stopping file..."
  
  vid.StopClear()
  
  endif
  
  
  
  else if type(msg) = "roVideoEvent" then
  
  
  
  if msg.GetInt() = MEDEN then vid.StopClear()
  
  
  
  else
  
  if debug print "Unhandled Event."
  
  endif
  
  
  
  
  
  goto wait_for_serial
  
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  Dave Harriff October 08, 2008 04:41

  
  
  Thank you very much for your reply.