VM Dashboard

Automation & Control
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I’m looking to set up a simple down stream keyer for our studio. I will need only 3 sources on my dashboard (Key, Fill, Background) with 2 media stores. I want to control the frame (Carbonite) from a VM so that our operators can log on and simply take a key to air over our network feed with no touchscreen, Only using the dashboard app.

Have any of you had experience setting up dashboard in a similar fashion?

Have any of you built a custom dashboard with only a couple buttons and do you mind sharing how to do this with me?

Thanks!

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Hi Michael.

I’ll see what I can do to get your an example of how to do this with a Carbonite soon - there are a LOT of parameters on Carbonites so I’m just trying to track down the ones that are important for your task.

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Thanks James,

I’m aiming to have this put together In the next couple of days. I’ve read through the manual, and I can’t seem to find out how I can create a button in dashboard that triggers the switcher to take the source “Input 1” to air through the carbonite.

Do you have any instructions on how i can set that up?

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If you don’t require any feedback and just want a push-and-go, you can use RossTalk to do this.

Here’s a button that sets ME1 Program to Input 1

`
rosstalk.sendMessage(‘IP ADDRESS OF CARBONITE’, 7788, ‘XPT ME:1:PGM:IN:1’);

`
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Note: This example expects the Carbonite to be listening for RossTalk messages on port 7788 - I’m not sure how to setup RossTalk on a Carbonite but the manual or Tech Support should be able to give you those details.

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Awesome. What command type would this be? (SEQI, Take,?)

Does this look right to you?

rosstalk.sendMessage(‘10.30.10.30’, 7788, ‘XPT ME:1:PGM:IN:1’);

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The command type for this one would be XPT (crosspoint).

That pretty much right to me (or as close as it can be with the forum’s idiosyncrasies in sharing snippets of code)

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I don’t see XPT listed, my options are SEQI, TAKE, SEQO, CLFB, RESUME.

Thanks

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You are looking in the list in the RossTalk task type in DashBoard, correct?

There should be a LOT more than that.

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Found it. Thanks!

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Hey James,

Could you please give the the code I can use to create a button (For cut to switcher media 1).

Thank you

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Hi Michael.

Spoke with the Carbonite team and they say the following:

[QUOTE]MS:1

For example, in order to switch the background of ME1 to Media 1 you would use:

XPT ME:1:PGM:MS:1

Knowing that, we can change our button:

`
rosstalk.sendMessage(‘IP ADDRESS OF CARBONITE’, 7788, ‘ME:1:PGM:MS:1’);

`
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Thanks James

Do you know If the dashboard app will still function If the controller has been unplugged from the frame? We would like to use dashboard only and move the controller into storage.

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