Facility Control

Does anyone know if it's possible to monitor button presses on an RCP-ME in Dashboard? Ideally with menu level information as well.

I'd like to use dashboard to accomplish some more complicated work that the RCP-ME doesn't support. If I could know when a button is pressed and then I could effectively use that as a trigger input to ogscript code. I did add the RCP-ME as a datasource and it has an API but it's very thin, dosn't appear to have what I'm looking for. I thought maybe if I setup a dashboard panel as a server and put that address in the RCP-ME configuration maybe it would work if I figured out the protocol. Before diving in I figured it would be best to see if anyone else has tried anything like this already.

Hi @Lanthade
The RCP-ME only sends configuration information to DashBoard and does not send updates when buttons are pressed. The API available for "NK CustomPanels" is developed around sending relatively simple commands to the routers through their specialized NK protocol. In short, DashBoard has no way of directly-knowing when a button on the RCP-ME has been pressed.

Now, the NK protocol does send DashBoard status information, so it would be possible to execute script based on something like a specific crosspoint change as a result of your button press, but that's as close as you would get with this protocol.

Cheers.

James
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