I have a motion sensor on the driveway. When it is tripped, I would like to display 'Driveway motion detected' on all on-screen orbiters.
I tried to use 'Respond To Events' for the motion sensor. I tried 'Send Message' on 'On Screen Orbiter' with '#144 Go Back (bool)' set to 1
'#9 Text (string)' set to 'Driveway motion detected'
I also tried 'Display Alert' with
'#251 Interruption (int)' set to 0
'#9 Text (string)' set to 'Driveway motion detected'
'#182 Timeout (string)' set to 3
'#70 Tokens (string)' set to 'motion'
Neither of them displayed any text. Instead, it toggled UI2 when no media is played. It showed the list of media files during a video playback.
Please let me know if I need to use different message or different parameters.
If possible, I would like to display the message at the top left corner of all TVs (on-screen orbiters). It is like how 'Remote nn is Active' is displayed when you associate a remote (FireChief) to a media director.
Thanks.
where do you send that display alert to?
I'm using DEVICETEMPLATE_VirtDev_All_Orbiters_CONST (-305), works fine..
best regards,
Hari
Where do you specify -305 ? I don't see any device that corresponds to -305 in the listbox named 'Device' on 'Edit' page of 'Respond To Events' page.
dunno, I'm sending this from a device (c++).
br, Hari
The all orbiters device isn't available from the web admin. You will need to do each orbiter individually.
-Thom
Thom, thanks for confirming lack of choice in the 'Device' list.
I achieved the same by wrapping the following command in a shell script and invoking 'App Server' device with 'Spawn Application' command
/usr/pluto/bin/MessageSend dcerouter -targetType category -bl 5 1 5 1 809 251 0 9 "Driveway Motion detected" 182 15 70 "motion"
I realize that what I want to get done is similar to 'Anouncement' available from 'Active Sensors' page. But, instead of audio I need text display. Text display is a non-invasive. Perhaps, this is a good enhancement.
Yeah, it can be added definitely. The relevant code to do this is in src/Security_Plugin, and the web admin may need to be modified to support this. I'm not sure, just conjecturing at this point.
-Thom