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RE: Ultrix Salvos

Posted By Richard Hills 08-25-2025 11:01
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James, Thank you. Is it possible to have a layout with some toggle buttons that allow salvo recall? I would like the button to show the salvo name (possibly filtered by a prefix to the name, like '*')? ------------------------------ Richard Hills ------------------------------

Ultrix Salvos

Posted By Richard Hills 08-25-2025 09:27
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Q1: Is it possible within ogscript to overwrite an existing salvo with the current routing? Q2: Is it possible to specify which destinations should be in the salvo, ignoring other destinations? Q3: Is it possible to list salvos within ogscript? ------------------------------ Richard Hills -- ...

Ultrix destination locaking / unlocking best practice

Posted By Richard Hills 08-25-2025 07:55
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Question: Is it necessary to lock destinations before making a route? Assuming the answer is yes or at least good practice, I am a little confused by the commands. Looking at the code generated by the visual editor: When locking destinations: var panelid = ogscript.getString("UltrixGroupPB" + ...

Salvo Save

Posted By Richard Hills 08-19-2025 08:24
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Is it possible to save/record a salvo within ogscript? I can see that it is possible to recall using a rosstalk GPI xx command Ideally, I would like to have the ability to save a salvo with a predefined range of destinations I assume it would involve capturing the current state, selecting all destinations, ...

Widget development - Internal / Extrenal api and params

Posted By Richard Hills 08-18-2025 05:35
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Hi, I have written a couple of widgets that are working well but I wanted to add a status param that would be used to update the tree view status indicators. I have successfully done this with a simple grid file using the jsonport param, but I am getting stuck with the widget. The issue relates to ...

RE: Copying controls between custom panel files

Posted By Richard Hills 08-14-2025 02:09
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James, That worked well, and I now have some related questions: When I add my custom device to the basic tree view the status indicator colour indicates the panel is running with the jsonport setup correctly. Is it possible to have this show 'my' device status? Is there a common paramId I should ...

RE: Maintaining a TCP connection to a device

Posted By Richard Hills 08-12-2025 07:25
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I think I have found a post with the solution: https://rossvideo.community/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=205&MID=24268&CommunityKey=94781415-eb0f-4f9a-b891-c44d41d870c8 Just checking it out but looks like what I need ------------------------------ Richard Hills --- ...

Maintaining a TCP connection to a device

Posted By Richard Hills 08-12-2025 03:50
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Is it possible to maintain a tcp connection with a device? I have a device that allows subscriptions to certain notifications, but I have found no way to keep the connection open. Dashboard closes the connection after each command sent. Am I missing a trick? ------------------------------ Richard Hills ...

RE: Copying controls between custom panel files

Posted By Richard Hills 08-08-2025 04:13
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James, That worked. Thank you ------------------------------ Richard Hills ------------------------------

Copying controls between custom panel files

Posted By Richard Hills 08-07-2025 05:34
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I have a project where I have created several custom panel files for devices such as QLab, Hyperdeck, lighting controls, etc. I have then created a panel file with tabs and included the other panel files into each of the tabs. This has worked well! The client has now asked for a general status page, ...

RE: Unique id for instance of dashboard

Posted By Richard Hills 07-31-2025 05:02
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Daniel Bailey directed me to the following post: https://rossvideo.community/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=5e71d5e8-e301-4508-9e3b-499eef3b8475&CommunityKey=94781415-eb0f-4f9a-b891-c44d41d870c8 This solution is not as generic as I hoped. I had hoped to simply find ...

Unique id for instance of dashboard

Posted By Richard Hills 07-30-2025 07:56
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I have a custom panel file running on multiple Ultritouch HR panels. There is some customisation of the layout I wish to automate based on which Ultritouch it is running on. Is there a way to get a unique id, preferably the device name or IP address? If this is possible, can it also be applied to dashboard ...

RE: NDI Window - Seting 'Sub Window (x,y,w,h); via ogscript

Posted By Richard Hills 07-30-2025 06:32
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I have a solution using parameters, thank you Daniel Bailey. File attached. I would still be interested to know if there is a direct command like setSource, and if there is a document with all these commands in it. ------------------------------ Richard Hills ------------------------------

RE: Modify Existing Widget

Posted By Richard Hills 07-30-2025 04:49
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Steve, It could be relatively straightforward or impossible! If you open the widgetdescriptor file for your camera control (located in c:/DashBoard/widgets), is it plain text or random-looking junk? If you can read it, then the file is just a wrapper for elements from a standard grid file and ...

NDI Window - Seting 'Sub Window (x,y,w,h); via ogscript

Posted By Richard Hills 07-30-2025 04:37
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I have seen from some previous posts that there is a ndiwin.setSource() command for changing the source. Is there an equivalent command to set the sub window? Is there any documentation detailing these commands? ------------------------------ Richard Hills ------------------------------

RE: Exposing widget controls

Posted By Richard Hills 07-24-2025 09:47
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Antony, Thank you. Obvious when you know how! Works perfectly. ------------------------------ Richard Hills ------------------------------

RE: Exposing widget controls

Posted By Richard Hills 07-24-2025 08:10
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Anthony, Thank you for the reply. Yes, a widgetdescriptor, communication will be via an HTTP REST API. I am not after specific help with the widget, my question is more generic. Let's assume I get the widget to work as desired (I have already made one for Adder XDIP KVM receivers). Let's assume widget ...

Exposing widget controls

Posted By Richard Hills 07-24-2025 06:05
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I am writing a widget to control some LCD displays, currently only power control. If I had six of these widgets, how would I add a couple of buttons to the layout that controls all six of the displays. I was thinking of putting a parameter listener in the widget, but I feel I am over complicating it. ...

RE: onchange with Ultrix?

Posted By Richard Hills 07-22-2025 11:34
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James, Is it possible to handle any destination change, not just a single destination? I have tried the following but it does not trigger when crosspoints are changed. ogscript.debug('crosspoints changed!'); ------------------------------ Richard Hills ------------------------------

RE: ogscript.asyncHTTP() with custom headers– script block silent, no logs

Posted By Richard Hills 07-08-2025 17:23
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Ahmed, Sorry for the delay. I am also quite new to Dashboard, but found the examples in this post very useful. Facility Control Rossvideo remove preview Facility Control View the selected document's details View this on Rossvideo > Hope this helps ----------- ...