Production Switchers

Please forgive me if this is obvious - I'm working on a new integrated Dashboard / Xpression / Carbonite system, and I have made a lot of progress, but I'll likely have numerous questions!

I receive a GPI to the Carbonite whenever my external data file which is used to automatically populate my lower third name key changes. When this occurs, I want to run a FLIP CC, which basically flips between KEY 1 and KEY 2 being active (KEY 2 is contextual information). What I would like to do is to have the GPI trigger the FLIP CC - but only conditionally, i.e. IF KEY 1 = ACTIVE to avoid on-air name key changes.

In my browsing through the custom options, I don't see any conditional or state comparison options, so I'm not sure how I could do this, unless I need to send a GPI to Dashboard from the Carbonite, and perform the logic there. If that is the case, can anyone give me a clue on how I would do that?

Thanks!

Hi Dave,

Yes you would have to make a DashBoard Custom Panel that is going to need to be running at all times :)

You will be able to use the Visual Logic to do this.  You will add the carbonite to the devices tree and then you will be able to use the actual OIDs to track it...then you can use Switch Blocks and IF/Else blocks to then setup the rules and follow that with a Run of a specific CC.

You will setup a Global Listener in DashBoard preferences for the RossTalk GPI events.  Then when you make the "button" that you will put this logic on will get triggered by this RossTalk GPI event.

This video I did was an older one about controlling a BMD Hyper Deck via a panel...https://youtu.be/xrSm80JP0Ns

It will at least show you how to setup the listener and then trigger buttons.  I am not able to do a video at this time (maybe later this week) to show you exactly what you are trying to do :)

Thanks Les - it took me a while, as it turns out that both ports 7788 and 7789 were already in use, but I did get the GPI side of things going this morning.I completed the control side with visual logic, and added a checkbox to enable or disable this automated function within the dashboard interface.

Wicked. Onto the next challenge!