Production Switchers

Hi All,

I followed an instructional video from Ross University to connect Xpression and Dashboard (On different computers). Most steps seemed to work and I put the carbonite panel IP as the host name. Hopefully this is correct? I then made the Datalinq connection on the Xpression computer to that IP and it showed as connected (if i changed the port number it got an error). I enabled Rosstalk in Xpression and I attempted to connect a text graphic to the data source but it could not pull any data. I have no idea if it is an IP address config issue or something else? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Patrick

Hi Patrick, if you are sending data from Dashboard to XPression via DataLinq, then the Carbonite panel's IP is not what you are looking for. The video link below should help you with this.

https://www.rossvideo.com/gallery/self-contained-panels-and-streaming-parameters-to-xpression/

As for RossTalk, that a set of commands to control Ross devices. Eg. you can send RossTalk from Carbonite to XPression to take graphics online. If this is what you are looking for, the following video will help you.

https://www.rossvideo.com/gallery/xpression-motion-cg-configuration/

Thank you so much, I will have a look!

Patrick

Hi Arron,

I had a look at the videos and they were quite insightful. However I still do not get any data showing up when I try to connect a graphic on Xpression with a datalinq I have created. I have set the Carbonites custom panel to stream and input the IP and port on the Ross talk commands. Could I be putting in the wrong IP somewhere?

Thanks,

Patrick

Patrick,

Datalinq has a "datalinq" server that needs to be setup.  You setup a Datalinq server (separate application in XPression world as it can run on a networked machine) That datalinq server is where you connect to the dashboard streaming server.....when you check the box in dashboard the default is port 2222...There is no IP to setup for this as it is a Server.  In Datalinq you will point to to the IP address of the DashBoard Panel (even if on same machine then you can use localhost in the ip field).

Now In your XPression Graphic you will be able to select Data type of Datalinq...Select from your available Datalinqs (the server can have a number of connections).  And then pick the data field that you would like to have fill that item.

RossTalk is for Control of devices....So from DashBoard you can send Control commands to the Carbonite and to the XPression.  For Carbonite you send the commands to the Frame IP address not the panel.

For XPression you may need to setup the "GPI" board under hardware as this is not enabled by default.  Further if you use the RossTalk Listner on DashBoard you need to make sure that you are not using the same Port number as what you assign to XPression as then they would be both try to use that same port.  

So when I run DashBoard (and I enable the RossTalk Listener in the preferences) to have my panel accept incoming commands to trigger events (ie I can have the switcher send RossTalk commands to the custom panel to trigger a button -- we have examples of this like trying to control a device that we don't have a protocol for in the switcher) I normally set DashBoard listener to port 7789 since XPression will also be on the Default port of 7788.

Thanks Les,

I will try to make those changes and see how I go, hopefully I can have them talk to each other soon.

Thanks,

Patrick