Display Control Commands
Mediacaster Player can control displays via RS232 commands. You can use this feature to switch screens on and off at specific times, if they support RS232 control.
Please Note: To utilise this feature, you need to define your serial commands, define the operating hours (see below) and assign the commands to players.
Click on ‘Display Control Commands’ in the tree structure. This will open the Display Control Command’s form which lists predefined control commands:
To view the predefined control commands click on one of the items on the list and then click the ‘Open’ button. This will open the form with the predefined values in it:
To define your own values for equipment you have the control commands for click the ‘New’ button in the ‘Display Control Commands’ listing form:
Enter the command in hexadecimal. Each text box represents one byte (00 – FF). At the byte where the checksum should be calculated, enter ‘##’. The checksum is calculated as the XOR of each byte preceding it. To help you define your control commands you can click on the ‘ASCII Table’ button. This will bring up a conversion table:
