Facility Control

Hi.
Just to clarify things.

Is ogscript.fireGPI (Trigger, State, Global) a Rosstalk command which can be used for communication over a network, or is it only for communicating internally between panels on the same PC?
So if it is possible to use ogscript.fireGPI on a network how would you set the port/IP, or is it intended to use rosstalk.sendMessage(IP, PORT, 'COMMAND:STATE') instead?

Do we have to set up a listener on a second panel to receive Rosstalk messages, or should incoming Rosstalk messages automatically be detected if listen port is activated on receiving panel and we have setup triggers (trigger-string) on elements (labels).

Best Regards

Hi erlandsv,

I've only used ogscript.fireGPI for communication within DashBoard itself. (between panels, within a panel).

You can easily send GPI messages between computers to trigger events using the Rosstalk GPI message.
rosstalk.sendMessage () as you said.

To receive GPI messages on a second computer is fairly easy, GPI messages in particular don't require you to build a listener by hand.
To do this do the following:
(also, this is how you could configure DashBoard to receive GPI messages from Ross Carbonite Swithers or Ross XPression Graphics)

1: Enable GPIs in your DashBoard.
Go to: Window\Preferences\Ross Talk GPI Listener.
Enable the 'Global GPI Listener' item. (you can change the port if it makes sense to, but, usually you would keep the default value).

2: Add 'GPI Triggers' to items in your panel.
Typically you would put GPI triggers on a button in your panel. This means that whenever DashBoard receives a GPI trigger any Button that has the same trigger value will run it's scripts.

To do this, on a button, in edit mode, on the 'Button Attributes' tab, put a value in 'Trigger ID' this is the GPI value to look for.
Typically this is a number.

Let me know if you need further help.

Troy
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Ok, thanks Troy. I have tried setting this up over our internal network. Maybe it has something to do with the way I have done it below. I would like to fetch a concenated string in addition to the GPI trigger name like this:

Provider panel:
var content = "some concenated string";
rosstalk.sendMessage('192.168.100.40', 7788, 'TriggerName:'+content);


Receiver/consumer panel:
A label has a GPI trigger named 'TriggerName' and with this test ogscript:
var content = "";
if ((event != null) && (event.getState() != null))
{
content = event.getState();
}
ogscript.debug(content);

I get no response at all, and I've tried different ports using Rosstalk.
If I try the same on localhost with ogscript.fireGPI('TriggerName', content, true) from provider panel it works as expected on the consumer panel.
I thought I could add a state in addition to the GPI trigger in the Rosstalk message, but maybe I got wrong syntax with the ":" separator or my 'TriggerName:'+content syntax?
Or do you think there are some firewall issues on ports on our network?
BR, erland

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Aah, my bad!
From Dashboard User Guide:
rosstalk.sendMessage('localhost', 7788, 'GPI StartClock')

So if anyone else has problems with GPI Trigger Id strings, just prefix the Trigger Id with "[I]GPI[/I] ... and then your Trigger ID".
It works now Troy!
E:)

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Glad you got it working!

T.
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