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Ultrix LOS detection/ trigger feature request

Posted By Dave Whitehead 10-31-2023 08:24
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Without writing a Dashboard app to monitor input status, I am wondering what possibilities exist in Ultrix to effectively trigger an event, or recall a salvo based on loss of signal. Effectively, I would like to use an Ultrix as large 2x1 matrix of say 30 input signals (each with primary and redundant ...

RE: Launching a dashboard panel in full screen mode

Posted By Dave Whitehead 02-07-2022 07:35
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Very interesting James. I'd prefer this approach, however, instead of launching Dashboard, we launch the grid file as part of our startup process to ensure the right thing is opened, and the user never actually sees or interacts with the other aspects of DB. When I tested this approach with a grid file ...

RE: Ultritouch 'screen clean'

Posted By Dave Whitehead 02-07-2022 07:26
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Very clever Mark. I was thinking of doing something similar myself. I use a similar approach for a hidden password protected setup page. James, I've just tried the tag, and it works perfectly. Thank you both. ------------------------------ Dave Whitehead Enterprise Architect House of Commons ...

RE: Launching a dashboard panel in full screen mode

Posted By Dave Whitehead 02-03-2022 10:22
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I haven't found a way to do that via launch switches in the shortcut, but that would be ideal. What I currently do is save the grid file while full screen, and close DB without reverting it (Alt-F4). Then launching the grid file will open in fullscreen mode. If there's a better way I'd also love to ...

RE: Pull TSL Data From Carbonite Ultra/Ultrix

Posted By Dave Whitehead 02-01-2022 07:59
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I haven't specifically pulled names from the TSL data, but I have used it to recall camera presets based on tally. Here's a code snippet from my grid file, which might be a bit hacky, but hopefully points you the right way. This moves a Panasonic PTZ camera to a preset number if it is not tallied. This ...

Ultritouch 'screen clean'

Posted By Dave Whitehead 01-31-2022 17:27
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I am running a fullscreen Ultritouch custom grid file, with the menu hidden to prevent users from unintentionally unloading the panel, or changing settings. I am wondering if there is an available command to allow me to add a 'screen clean mode' button to my custom grid file to permit users to clean ...

RE: Setting an Xpression timer to a custom value via Datalinq

Posted By Dave Whitehead 03-29-2021 12:22
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Thanks for the example Andrew, that does help, and your code works nicely. I think instead it will be better if I do this in my Dashboard front end though, so I'll try adding a data listener there to get the timer value. The next challenge, is how to push a timer value from DB to Xpression. I'll take ...

Setting an Xpression timer to a custom value via Datalinq

Posted By Dave Whitehead 03-25-2021 13:25
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I have a Dashboard / Xpression setup which already includes two fixed value timers that are remotely triggered by Dashboard GPI commands to the Xpression. Now I need to add the ability for a third, custom set timer value, which comes not from Dashboard, but from a remote system. That value arrives as ...

RE: Datalinq disable?

Posted By Dave Whitehead 12-10-2020 13:20
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Thanks Garner - I had pretty much come to that conclusion. This is a feature we had on our previous Broadcast Pix systems, and one we had used extensively. In the interim, I think I had come up with a workaround, although it's a bit clumsy. Basically, for the two scenes that are linked to this dynamic ...

Datalinq disable?

Posted By Dave Whitehead 11-30-2020 16:10
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I have a project which I am controlling entirely via a Dashboard interface I have created. Of the multiple lower thirds in the XP project that have Datalinq connections to xml files, one of those files is regularly updated to reflect the currently active speaker, however, sometimes the changes are done ...

RE: Dashboard panel reloading itself?

Posted By Dave Whitehead 08-04-2020 15:19
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Thanks Ben - that makes more sense - I didn't realize there was supposed to be an auto reload. Having studied the behavior more closely, it may only be reloading once, but if I get click happy with adding and removing things from the sequence in Dashboard, it appears I can get it stuck in a reloading ...

RE: Status dot from parameter?

Posted By Dave Whitehead 08-04-2020 14:02
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Yes - thank you for this! I assume the same is likely true for elements from the Carbonite control panel, using the device ID mac address as the source, so I will do that as well. Dave #DashBoard

RE: Dashboard panel reloading itself?

Posted By Dave Whitehead 08-04-2020 13:59
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Thanks James - that didn't seem to solve my issue - in fact, regular RossTalk doesn't seem to work at all for me despite adding it in Xpression, so I left it as RossTalkEx with the actual local IP, and everything was fine - for a while. My original reloading issue recently came back, as I have now ...

Status dot from parameter?

Posted By Dave Whitehead 07-22-2020 17:13
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I have status dots in a panel I have created to show connectivity staus to the local Xpression and Carbonite. As I will be deploying this panel to multiple systems, I have used parameters to hold the IP addresses of the various pieces of equipment to provide an easy way to change the panel in each deployment. ...

RE: De-select / de-focus a droplist?

Posted By Dave Whitehead 07-09-2020 15:32
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Perfect! I was on the right track, but I couldn't get the syntax right. That works for me :) #DashBoard

De-select / de-focus a droplist?

Posted By Dave Whitehead 07-09-2020 15:08
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I have several droplists on my grid file which run some code when a selection is made, and that works nicely. However, one thing I would like to change is that after the code has run, I would like to switch focus away from the drop list, as it is left with a blinking cursor at the end of the text of ...

RE: Dashboard panel reloading itself?

Posted By Dave Whitehead 07-02-2020 17:25
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Further to this, additional experimenting suggested that this only occurs when Xpression is running, regardless of if there is a project loaded . On a hunch I changed the Xpression_IPAddress variable from localhost as it is running on the same machine (127.0.0.1) to the actual local ip address, and now ...

Dashboard panel reloading itself?

Posted By Dave Whitehead 07-02-2020 16:02
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I have a panel with a lot of parameters that will be running on an Xpression pc, and controlling the Xpression as the main user interface. The panel runs fine, but once I add the calls to Xpression (which work correctly, and recall the right sequence items), it appears to redraw the interface, or reload ...

RE: Datalinq data back into Dashboard

Posted By Dave Whitehead 06-23-2020 19:51
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Thanks for the clarification on that Ben. At least I know I'm not missing something obvious. It's not that much work to do in Dashboard for the data I need. Maybe this feature could be considered for a future software release. #DashBoard

Datalinq data back into Dashboard

Posted By Dave Whitehead 06-23-2020 18:26
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I have a number of items in my Xpression sequencer which are Datalinq linked to discrete XML files (about 50). It would be nice if I could have a parameter in Dashboard displaying one field (PersonName) of each those linked scene pages to confirm the graphic is valid ebfore it is taken. If I display ...