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Scheduled Display Power On/Off

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Nick Young
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I've scheduled a presentation between 9.15 AM and 5 PM, with the assumption that the the unit would turn off its video output outside of these times. This appears not to be the case and the unit just shows a black screen.

The display we have automatically turns on/off depending on the presence of the input signal. I've tested this behaviour using the Disable/Enable Monitor Power Save commands, driven by UDP input events to which the display responds accordingly.

This article states how you can trigger this when a scheduled presentation starts, by including the wake command in an initial state object, however nothing is mentioned about how this can work at the end of a scheduled presentation. In the presentation I'm using, I am looping one video using the Media End event redirecting back to the video state. I can't place the sleep command here because it would happen every time the video reach the end.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to achieve this?

Cheers,

Nick

 

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    Allen H. Porter

    You could schedule a presentation to run at the end and attach commands to that.  We run a "black" presentation over night with serial commands and CEC (BrightControl) commands to turn displays off then attach on commands to the regular presentation that runs in the morning.

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    Nick Young

    Hi Allen. Yes I figured that might be the way to do it. My concern is that it's an extra thing for users to think about and maintain.

    It would be a useful feature if you could configure entry and exit commands on the presentation itself, much like you do on states.

    I'm assuming this functionality could be added using a plugin, or a custom autorun. Anyone have any ideas on how to get a plugin to interact with the scheduler, or perhaps where in the autorun I could inject the SetPowerSave script command to get it to work?

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    Allen H. Porter

    I am sure both of your ideas are achievable.  We thought about a custom autorun but decided against it because now that is another piece of custom "content" to manage.  And BrightScript could do it but again you have to attach that to the Presentation so yet another thing to manage.

     

    You could have an Event Handler as the start state of all Presentations and attach the commands to that.  Then your content manager is trained only to replace or alter the mp4/jpg/png/etc files after that object.  And for the off stuff...our nighttime black.jpg is schedule from 0001 to 0600 (not the same for every customer obviously) forever.

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    Nick Young

    Thanks for you input Allen. Really helpful.

    I'm coming from a background of using Onelan and their web based CMS. Brightsign is quite a different platform to Onelan and I'm trying to work through some of the major differences, this being one of them. I like the way that BA sits on top of BrightScript, and with that you can probably do anything you like, given enough development time. Onelan has a few more useful features out of the box (conditional play/scheduling), but is in no way as extensible as Brightsign. There are pros and cons to both. I'm just trying to work out how much of the current workflows will need reinventing.

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