Hi Community,
today I am trying to get some help with a project that I want to create for my customer. Imagine 8x BrightSign players that show an image and a text below that image, just an image zone with the picture (PNG) and a second zone with a text state. The user does only change the image inside the presentation, like removing the current image and then putting another one into the zone. There is only one image in this zone. The next change the user makes is to edit the text inside the Text State. Then the presentation gets published or saved in the schedule for playing on a specific day and time. This procedure is done with all 8 players.
Now there is another player that is referring to the content of all these 8 players to show everything in a total view. It means the player has a presentation that has 8x image zones and 8x text states, the content in these zones is what the other players are currently playing back.
I am pretty sure that this will need a special programming in BrightScipt to get access to the actual file name of the image that is displayed, and then forwarding this file name into a variable that will be sent from the player to the "total view" player. Sounds funny, but I don't know what other solution should work.
The same needs to happen with the text inside the Text State - this must be read from a script and then also put into a variable that gets forwarded to the "total view" player.
I was thinking about MRSS and UDP commands containing further text generated by variables, but I did not find out how to get access to the current file name of each presentation running on each player. The same with the text.
Imagine you had 8 meeting rooms and besides the doors you have a screen with the logo image of the company that will have a meeting in this room. Maybe BrightSign has a meeting from 9:30 to 11:00 - then you would see the BrightSign logo image and the text below with the time, and maybe also the event name. Following the same structure you have further 7 screens, all with different logo images and text.
Now the total view just showes the content of all 8 screens in one presentation, for example in the enterance area of the building where the meeting rooms are.
I know this is complicated to describe, maybe also to understand - but if I am right, there won't be any other way than programming BrightScript and including this into BrightAuthor:connected.
Can anybody assist with this request?