Facility Control

We've got a new Tria Express clip server, and I'm looking for some direction on getting the clip playback countdown clock data into a custom DashBoard panel. The end result would be that our TD could glance at this panel and see a big display of just the time remaining for clip that is playing. Been looking at tutorials, but still not sure how to pull this off. The idea was suggested by folks from Ross, so it should be doable, I'm just too much of a DashBoard newb to know where to start. 

Here is an example panel that one of our trainers put together (Tony).  

<abs contexttype="opengear" id="_top" keepalive="false" virtualheight="921" virtualwidth="1631">

<button buttontype="push" height="171" left="314" name="VDCP DEBUG CHANNEL TIMECODE" top="295" width="572">
<task tasktype="ogscript">function callback(success, cmd, result, exception)
{
if (success)
{
var timecode = result.getClipPositionAsString();
ogscript.debug(timecode);
}
}

var ip = '10.80.1.225';
var port = 8000;
var channel = 1;
vdcp.activeClipInfo(ip, port, channel, callback);</task>
</button>
</abs>

You'll have to change the IP and port (I think 8000 is channel A, 8001 is B, etc).

Once you have the activeClipInfo, you can get do the following calls:

• getClipDuration()
• getClipDurationAsString()
• getClipID
• getClipPosition()
• getClipPositionAsString()

The ones that get time (not as strings) are returning milliseconds I beleive.

Hi Ben,

Thanks for this! I sat down to experiment and realized that I'm in over my head a bit. I'll dig through the forum to find out some of the basics I need to know to get to the point where I can use that script and modify for my devices IP and ports. I got lost on step one, what kind of custom panel file template I should be using :) 

You should use the default one (Blank Self-contained Data-Source Panel).    That type of panel allows you to create parameters within the panel, and they get stored with the panel.

There are training videos on how to use DashBoard here:  https://www.rossvideo.com/products-services/management-systems/automated-production-control/dashboard/dashboard-u/

They might be helpful for you.

Thanks for the suggestions on this topic. If anyone stumbles across this in the future, we did find a resolution. My biggest roadblock to getting this to work was that Dashboard could not see all of our Tria's palette information. With help from support, we installed a software package on our Tria that allowed to Dashboard to see all the Tria's control and status info, and easily drag and drop the time remaining displays from the "palette" into a DB custom panel.