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HD210 & HD1010 initial network setup

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Guy Bustillos
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I am planning to setup some HD210s and HD1010 on a network with most of them just running a looped video. My plan is to publish the various projects from my PC to the SC cards then insert them into the Brightsign players test them on my office network then physically install the players throughout the customer's facility. However, I will need to assign my static IP settings to the players so they can be connected to the customer's network during the initial install. I would also like to control one or two of the units via UDP from a 3rd party show controller (play a short video file). Then, eventually my customer will add a PC running BrightAuthor and IIS and use it to allow local updating of the media files to the various brightsign units so that they can update the files without going to each BrightSign player and changing SD cards. Does this sound like a viable plan for deployment? -or- I do have a spare/new PC at my office that has Windows 7 Professional on it and I could set it up with IIS and use it for setup and testing of the HD210 and HD1010 units at my office emulating my customers network. I dont know when my customer will have his PC running IIS on his network. If I use this plan, what will I run into when I install the HD210 and HD1010 units on the customers network without his IIS server being installed? What woud you recommend?
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    RokuLyndon


    To setup the units to call into a server, you need to know what address the units will call into, unless you use a server name, the same name on your network and your customer's network. But, then you need dns resolution on the newtork to resolve "mysername" into the customer's IP. Otherwise, once the customer has his server setup, you'll have to take the flash cards out of his units, and run setup on the cards so the units know to call into his server.

    Yes, you can do UDP, that's easy to do.
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    Guy Bustillos


    Lyndon,
    Thanks for the reply. I think I will go ahead and configure a PC here in my office with IIS and emulate my customer's network. I might just sell him my PC after I do the configuration. Is there any help you can give me with getting me going with the setup with the HD210's and their configuration to include UDP control commands and include remote media updating from the PC on the same network?

    I am also looking for some help with the following configuration:
    On an HD1010, In addition to being capable of media updating via networked PC, I would like to provide contact closures to into the GPIO and have the HD1010 send RS-232 commands to the serial port and to start video playback on the HD1010 (this will be for communicating to a connected video projector ON, OFF RS-232 commands and video file play command on the HD1010)
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    RokuLyndon



    I'm not sure if you have a specific questions or aren't sure where to get started. The easiest way to do this is with a brightauthor project, that you then setup for updates through this web server. For the web server setup, you need to make sure you have a mime type added for the .brs extension, the type would be text/plain. That should be all you need to do on the server, and make a folder available that doesn't requires username and password.


    On the topic of UDP control and serial commands, see the video below. We have a quickstart guide, and tutorial videos that talk about interactive projects, accepting button/gpio input. we have sample projects you can download and edit.

    We don't have a fixed rs232 list because you can create your own commands to control the unit. 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.

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3480052/Tools/Amx-Crestron-Control-1.m4v

    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, Resume, 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 also download the files from this link:

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3480052/Scripts/Control_Script/InProgress/autorun.zip

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    Guy Bustillos


    I looked the AMX/Creston UDP serial control video a couple of times and it looks pretty straight forward. I also downloaded the .zip file and reviewed the readme and script and I will be loading the script and media to test. I did not see any reference to my application for providing the functionality of  connecting a button contact to the GPIO and when pressed, passing a command string out to the RS-232 port. I looked at the example video that explains configuring in Brightauthor a scheduled RS-232 command to a connected projector (turn on a connected projector in the moring and turn off the projector in the evening) but I just could not see how I could link a GPIO button input to send RS-232 commands. In Brightauthor I could only assign button inputs to play media. I specualte what I am trying to do only possible through a custom script?
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