Firing Barco E2 presets from Carbonite - Rosstalk?

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Hello clever people,

I’m trying to find a way to fire BARCO E2 presets from within the ROSS environment. I know just enough terminology to get myself in trouble, but have never really ventured down the Rosstalk path before and I’m not a Java programmer.

As far as I can see the BARCO can take some basic commands via telnet, but that raises that question of how to fire a telnet ‘batch’ command from within the Ross universe (I’m thinking it’s a Custom Panel > CustomCode > CustomCode).

Not looking for code, just checking to see if I’m on the correct path. Examples would not be refused tho’ :smiley:

In theory it’s quite a simple ask,

“Hello machine, you don’t know me, that doesn’t matter, could you please do this? … thank you!”

I can switch my brain into coding mode, but the last time I coded anything in anger was on an Amiga (the world only had 16 million colours back then), so I was wondering if anyone else has been reckless enough to have tried this before I go breaking things?

I guess the end goal would be to be able to fire these via a button push on the Touchdrive (via an Ultrix Salvo) … maybe?

Thanks in advance - (please feel free to disregard the ramblings of a madman if that’s the first thought that came to mind). Open to suggestions of any sort.

Dec

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Can you give an example of what the message needs to look like to a Barco?

RossTalk is opening up a Port and then Firing ASCII Text at the device.

Also some devices what a different “end of message” .. which we have different options for that..

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There you can see when entering a “Custom Message” you pick from:
1 - CRLF which is the message ending with Carriage Return and Line Feed are send

2- LF just Line Feed is send

3- CR just Carriage Return is sent

4- NO CR or LF is sent

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Hope that helps… but without knowing what the other side is looking for can’t give more suggestions than that.

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Hi Les,

The info you have given me, might actually be what I was looking for … I might just have a play with this new knowledge and report back.

Exciting times!!

Dec