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Dashboard Version: 6.1.0

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Dashboard and am messing with it's ability to use communication via ethernet with other devices to automate a few things.

The trouble I'm running into is requesting a list of media items and having those items inserted into a dropdown box in dashboard.

I looked at the Hyperdeck example on the Ross website and tried the 'getListenerByID()' function but when I pull up the debugger it says that that function doesn't exist. Is there a different function I should be using, is 'getListenerByID' exclusive to Dashboard 6.2? And if it is, is there another function I can use to output the data returned to me into a dropdown box?

Thanks!

Hi Michael,

Version 6.2.0 is released now on the website and has new ogScript functions available in it (including those).

You can download it at:

http://www.rossvideo.com/control-systems/dashboard/products/dashboard.html#download

Let me know if you still have issues after getting the latest version.

Troy.

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Amazing! Thanks Troy, I'll give it a try right now.

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It looks like it's accepting the function now. Now I'm getting another error:

var casparServer = ogscript.getListenerById('CasparCGServer');

casparServer.start()

EXCEPTION:

TypeError: Cannot call method "start" of null (anonymousLabelTask#5)

I have the listener declared as a 'Connect as Client' with the correct client information for the CasparCG server.

I know it can contact the server because I can send RossTalk commands to it in the same page.

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Hi Michael,

Can you e-mail me your custom panel, probably the easiest way for me to look into it.

tenglish@rossvideo.com

Troy.

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Hey Troy,

I'm finally having some time to revisit this and I was looking at the Send-Receive dashboard example on the website.

I see there's a way to trigger a 'callback' function after a message is sent, and this sounds like the perfect thing I need to make this end up working.

I tried it out, but for some reason I keep receiving a NULL string, even though the caspar server is sending back data.

Here's my code:

rosstalk.sendMessage(ogscript.getPrivateString('hosts', 'CasparCG.host'), parseInt(ogscript.getPrivateString('hosts', 'CasparCG.port')), 'INFO', callback);

function callback(success, sentData, resultString, exception)

{

   if (success) {

   ogscript.debug("Sent Data: " + sentData);

   ogscript.debug("TCP result: " + resultString);

   } else{

   ogscript.debug("exception: " + exception);

   }

}

my debug output I get when I trigger this is:

17:00:18:502: Sent Data: INFO

17:00:18:503: TCP result: null

Any ideas?

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I know for a fact caspar is sending the data because I can pull it up in puTTy and I get the response back to me when I run the 'INFO' command.

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Hi Michael.

The default implementation of rosstalk.sendMessage is used for "fire and forget" messages (messages that do not require a response".

To receive an acknowledgement from your device, you will need to either use a `
` tag, or take advantage of a feature we introduced in DashBoard 6.2.4 called `sendMessageWithResponse`:

`

function callback(success, sentData, resultString, exception)

{

}

rosstalk.sendMessageWithResponse('[host]', [port], '[message]', '[end of message indicator]', callback);

`

So, in your example, you would nee to know what terminates the response - here is an example where we would wait for a newline character `'n'`.

(NOTE: Due to an issue with this forum, I can't seem to make the character appear correctly. A newline is actually `[backslash]n`)

`rosstalk.sendMessageWithResponse(ogscript.getPriv ateString('hosts', 'CasparCG.host'), parseInt(ogscript.getPrivateString('hosts', 'CasparCG.port')), 'INFO', 'n', callback);

function callback(success, sentData, resultString, exception)

{

if (success) {

ogscript.debug("Sent Data: " + sentData);

ogscript.debug("TCP result: " + resultString);

} else{

ogscript.debug("exception: " + exception);

}

}`

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Hi James. Thanks! I'll have to look into that new function when I get back into work.

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Dashboard and CasparCG is interesting

Now I'm trying to connect to Caspar Server. This is very cool ....
Very simple, I just change port into CasparCG port (5250)
and then create custom command like in this picture:

IT'S WORKS GOOD.

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Now I want to send a text from dashboard to CasparCG server with XML format.
But I never succses for this. Could anyone point me into a right direction ?


Here the XML format that I want to send to CasparCG server:

"<templateData>
    <componentData id=\"player1\">
    <data id=\"text\" value=\"Gilar Kadarsah\"> 
    </data> </componentData>
</templateData>"

And this is Dashboard Source Code I have created:

<button buttontype="push" height="101" left="56" name="CASPAR" top="132" width="198">
   <task tasktype="rosstalk">rosstalk.sendMessage('localhost', 5250, '  CG 1-9 ADD 1 playerid 1');</task>
</button>

How do I have to write XML with OgScript in Dashboard?


Thanks


Appreciate for comment and help

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I won't pretend to know anything about Caspar's protocol but, based on another forum post I read (http://casparcg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=970), it looks like you need to send the XML like this:

<button buttontype="push" height="101" left="56" name="CASPAR" top="132" width="198">
<task tasktype="ogscript">rosstalk.sendMessage('localhos t', 5250, 'CG 1-9 ADD 1 playerid 1 &lt;![CDATA["&lt;templateData&gt;&lt;componentData id="player1"&gt;&lt;data id="text" value="Gilar Kadarsah"&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/componentData&gt;&lt;/templateData&gt;"]]&gt;');</task>
</button>

Yes, this is incredibly ugly. The good news is, in the UI, it looks like this:

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Hi James .... thank you very much for the script.

Your code that you had wrote has been received by server:
but I think the xml format is not match with The CasparCG server want.
This is the log of CasparCG server:

[2016-03-12 16:20:45.318] [4776] [info]    Received message from 127.0.0.1: CG 1-9 ADD 1 playerid 1 <![CDATA["<templateData><componentData id="player1"><data id="text" value="Gilar Kadarsah"></data></componentData></templateData>"]]>\r\n
[2016-03-12 16:20:45.333] [5392] [info]    flash[cg20.fth.pal|0] Initialized.
[2016-03-12 16:20:45.333] [5392] [info]    flash[cg20.fth.pal|0] Invoking add-command: <invoke name="Add" returntype="xml"><arguments><number>1</number><string>PLAYERID.ft</string><true/><string></string><string><![CDATA[ <![CDATA[]]></string></arguments></invoke>

It should be like this: (CasparCG server want)

[2016-03-12 15:25:44.686] [4640] [info]    Received message from 127.0.0.1: CG 1-20 ADD 1 "PLAYERID" 1 "<templateData><componentData id=\"player1\"><data id=\"text\" value=\"Gilar Kadarsah\"/></componentData></templateData>"\r\n
[2016-03-12 15:25:44.697] [1852] [info]    flash[cg20.fth.pal|0] Initialized.
[2016-03-12 15:25:44.697] [1852] [info]    flash[cg20.fth.pal|0] Invoking add-command: <invoke name="Add" returntype="xml"><arguments><number>1</number><string>PLAYERID.ft</string><true/><string></string><string><![CDATA[ <templateData><componentData id="player1"><data id="text" value="Gilar Kadarsah"/></componentData></templateData>]]></string></arguments></invoke>

Now i'm trying to modificate of your code.

Thanks for your time and have a great day

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Hi James .... This code works for CasparCG server

<button buttontype="push" height="59" left="12" name="CASPAR" top="20" width="125">
   <task tasktype="ogscript">rosstalk.sendMessage('localhost', 5250, 'CG 1-9 ADD 1 playerid 1 "&lt;templateData&gt;&lt;componentData id=\\"player1\\"&gt;&lt;data id=\\"text\\" value=\\"Gilar Kadarsah\\"/&gt;&lt;/componentData&gt;&lt;/templateData&gt;"');</task>
</button>

On rosstalk wouldbe like this:


Now I want to Make Text Variable so I can change "Gilar Kadarsah" text with other name. is this possible?

I'm looking for something like text field tools but i can't find it

Thanks

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Hi Gilar.
I would strongly recommend you go to "ogScript" mode instead of "RossTalk" mode. That way you can build-up what you want to send as JavaScript strings.

<button buttontype="push" height="59" left="12" name="CASPAR" top="20" width="125">
<task tasktype="ogscript">
var name='Gilar Kadarsah'; //Note, you could get the value from a parameter like this: params.getValue("NAME-PARAM-OID", 0); rosstalk.sendMessage('localhost', 5250, 'CG 1-9 ADD 1 playerid 1 "&lt;templateData&gt;&lt;componentData id="player1"&gt;&lt;data id="text" value="' + name + '"/&gt;&lt;/componentData&gt;&lt;/templateData&gt;"');
</task>
</button>

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