Facility Control

Ok Dashboard gurus- I'm at a venue that currently uses Crestron to control a large bank of TVs. We've moved all of their signal routing commands over to Dashboard (they have an NK Router), and the only thing left to figure out is on/off control of their actual TVs.

The TVs in question are Planar SL4351's (Simplicity Series). I've tracked down the following information:
Serial Commands: https://www.planar.com/media/304579/020-1244-00-simplicity-series-rs-232-manual.pdf
IP of one of the TVs: 172.22.54.157
TV Port: 5000

Based on what I'm reading (table 3.2.3 in above mentioned PDF), I should be able to send the following code to the TV to turn it off:
0xA6 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x04 0x01 0x18 0x01 0xBB

I've tried the following:
rosstalk.sendMessage('172.22.54.157', 5000, '0xA6 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x04 0x01 0x18 0x01 0xBB');
and
rosstalk.sendMessage('172.22.54.157', 5000, 'A6 01 00 00 00 04 01 18 01 BB');
to no avail.

I've also connected to the TV via Putty and sent the same commands. I receive no response from the TV no matter what I do. I'm sure it has something to do with my lack of knowledge of serial commands, but I'm not sure where to go from here...can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!!


Bo

Have you tried rosstalk.sendAsBytes('172.22.54.157', 5000, 'A6 01 00 00 00 04 01 18 01 BB', null);
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I just tried that to no avail. I'll continue plugging away and let you know where I land. Thanks James!
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Hey folks!  Just wanted to circle back and update this thread.  The original problem turned out to be a network connectivity issue.  We've since been able to do a lot more with this.  I've created a GitHub repo with a dashboard panel and script files with some custom functions to help communicate with Planar TVs.

https://github.com/sailingbo/RossDashboard-PlanarTVControl

Unfortunately Planar has 3 or 4 different versions of their RS232 commands depending on the exact tv's model/series.  I'll try to update with more options, but these functions currently work for the Simplicity 4k series.  

With James' help, we also figured out how to set up a listener and actually "Get" commands from the tv, so we can getVolume, getPowerState, etc.  Hope someone else can find this useful!

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