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Variable in UDP input string

I think I know the answer already, but just in case anyone has any ideas or I'm missing something...  

Is it not possible to include a user variable as part of the input string on a UDP event?  To be clear, I'm not trying to manipulate the variable, but use it as part of the "listening" value.  For example, using the player's IP address (defined as a system variable and addressed as $$myIP$$) as an identifier.

So with the above, a UDP event defined as $$myIP$$=displayPowerOn

Doesn't seem to work.

The idea here was to be able to send out commands on the broadcast address that reference all players, groups of players, or only a single player by encoding just 3 strings in a user event, and not having to manipulate every single project to enter unique values on UDP inputs.

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    Dustin Willis

    Nevermind - found another way using a multi-variable UDP input to essentially parse a command into device, command, and parameter variables, then using conditional targets to evaluate one piece at a time.  Not quite as clean as I'd hoped, but it isn't too bad.

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