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Anyone know if it's possible to send basic commands such as play, stop and mute over a network to control a network enabled Brightsign? Any help would be great as I'm assuming it must be possible somehow but can't find any info! Cheers
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    RokuLyndon



    You can create your own commands to control the unit over serial or udp. You can do this either using brightauthor where the serial or udp strings you use are up to you. The strings can be used to change from one file to another.

    I'm including a link to a video that shows you how you can send commands to playlists created using brughtauthor.

    https://www.brightsignnetwork.com/download/Videos/Amx-Crestron-Control-1.m4v

    For new control options under BrightAuthor 2.2 watch:
    https://www.brightsignnetwork.com/download/Videos/ba2.2_advanced_serial-1.mp4

    Additionally, you can control the unit using a script. I'm attaching a control script and readme. This control script defines a fixed set of playback commands (Play, Stop, Search, Loop, Pause, List, Resume, Download, Reboot, etc). Just copy the autorun and your content to a flash card and you're ready to send commands. The script also provides feedback when a command is received, when a file is found, when a file loops, etc.

    You can download the files from this link:
    https://www.brightsignnetwork.com/download/Scripts/control-5-23-11.zip

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    eaban


    Awesome thanks for this, great to know it's possible.

    I'm halfway to getting it to work though.  I've set up a test show with a single mp3 and created a UDP input event called 'mute' and added the command to mute analog audio.  In the presentation properties I've set the UDP destination address as 'all devices on the local subnet', the destination port as 4010 and receiver port as 4011.  I've also assigned a static ip 136.154.24.61

    We're trying to do a test by sending a command through Netcat but it does not seem to be responding.  Here's the command line:

    c:\Documents and Settings\mvms\Desktop\netcat>echo mute
    nc -u 136.154.24.61 4011

    Obviously there's a lot of factors that could be going wrong but if you're familiar with Netcat could you see any reason why this might not be working?

    Thanks for your help!
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    RokuLyndon


    Netcat attaches a carriage return and a line feed when it sends. I only know this because I did some test with netcat, probably 2 years ago and ran into this. I know brightauthor 2.3 lets you set the EOL, but I think that only applies to serial. Let me test this with ba 2.3, and I'll post results.
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    eaban


    Excellent, it would be interesting to find out.  Thanks!
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    TIWA

    Hi,

    Do you know how we can use the control script (autorun.brs) with 2 or more video files? Loop at the end of the 2nd video file to the first

    thanks

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