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UDP Broadcast on Startup

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Malte P
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Hey there.

I feed a HD210 with live texts over UDP which works great. It gets the text to specified times from a Crestron Controller and it may happen that the HD is off when the new text comes and switched on after it. So I would like it to broadcast its ID on startup that my Crestron Controller notices it and sends the actual text again.

As I just used the BrightAuthor I have no experience with the bs scriptlanguage and got lost trying to figure it out myself.

I think it's the roDatagramSender but I don't know where to put it. Just a custom autorun with it in the main function and connect it in the brightauthorproject? Or do I need to build the whole project in scriptlanguage then?

Thanks for your time, sorry for my english.

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    Walter

    Try this, no scripting, all in BA -

    Add a new image zone to the project, make it as small as possible.  I usually put these 'utility' zones in one of the corners of the screen.

    Change the zone playlist type to interactive

    Add an event handler to the zone

    Add a UDP send message to the advanced section of the event handler

    The event handler is the 'home' item for the playlist and doesn't link to any other states, it should only fire once when the zone is first displayed.  The zone only contains an event handler, no images, so it shouldn't display anything or interfere with other content in most cases.

    This should give you a one-shot UDP message on boot (or whenever the zone is re-created, like when publishing new content).

     

    Walter @ p-egd

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    Malte P

    Easy but hidden. Thank you

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