Is there a way to get Web Services support so that for example; text in a zone could display a real-time value? The classic example is to get the live outside weather conditions from NOAA web site: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml/ The more specific example is to get live inside building energy and performace data from a building automation system powered by Niagara technology: http://axdemo.tridium.com/obix
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RokuLyndon
The brightsign is capable of getting this information currently via some customization.
I see your data example, but can you give me a specific example of what your what your project might look like? Is this fullscreen data, or just in a window?
I worked on a project recently where the brightsign would download an xml file that was generated by the customer every minute, then parse the xml file, and display data into fields of a template image. Sometimes the fields were highlighted gray or green depending on the title of a particular xml entry. So, the title field was used as a control, and the data was in the description.
The brightsign can download files via http, text or xml or csv and you can parse that file by using some custom scripting. -
smuench
This use case is more of a HTTP GET and the data is returned as a value that then gets displayed into a "text box".
For example this would be how to get the cost of electricity in real time, which then needs to be visualized on the display. http://axdemo.tridium.com/obix/config/EnergyPricing/SimPricing/out/
Your example of "display data into fields of a template image" sounds close - can you help me learn more about templete image? -
RokuLyndon
The unit supports http gets.
You can do a get to file or get to string if you just want to grab some data like you describe.
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