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In-Room Control API command missing

MaximumTheater
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I am creating a driver to work with the In-Room Control API, and there is a command that i cannot find in the 9.2 API document.

 

I am looking for an xCommand to change which page is visible.

 

Let's say i have an in-room configuration with 2 pages. Page_1 and Page_2. 

I have registered for feedback, so i can see when a user selects one or the other...however, i cannot find anywhere an xCommand to tell the panel which to display.

 

The goal here is to reset to page 1 when someone presses a specific button, and to reset it to page 1 when the control system turns the room on. Currently, if i am on page 2 of my config, and the panel is left idle, or the room AV is turned off elsewhere, the next user to touch the panel goes straight to page 2. I want it to reset to page 1 when i do a "room off" command from the AV system.

 

I am currently working with an SX20 on 9.2, but would most likely be using this on an SRK and SRK+ in the future.

 

thanks

 

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PJMack
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If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to be able to select an option from the in room control menu on the touch 10 that sends a command to your control system and then in turn the control system sends a command back to the SX to change what's being displayed on the touch 10? I don't believe that's possible - and I'm curious why you want to do this?

 

To me it's not logical for a remote device to change the control panel that I'm using, if I make a selection from page 2 of the in room controls why would you want it to automatically go back to page 1? If I wanted to make a second selection from page 2 that would be terribly annoying. I would expect my device to stay on what screen I've chosen just like my phone, iPad, etc. 

 

 

Yes, that is what i am trying to do, but not in the scenario you are describing.

I am building a panel with 2 pages. Let's call #1 "Easy Mode" and #2 "Dual Mode".

Easy mode has simple source selection, room audio controls, and a system off button. Dual Mode has full video matrix capabilities for both TVs in the room, as well as a few other options.

If a user comes in and uses the room in "Dual mode", then turns the system off, I want to be able to default the in-room controls to "easy mode" for the next user that comes in, who is likely to be intimidated by the extra controls that they don't need. To do this, i need some kind of xCommand to tell the touch10 which page i want to be displayed. We have users that run the gamut of technical proficiency, and I always design AV systems and GUIs to present the simplest controls first.

I certainly wouldn't have it changing pages on normal button presses. Only when i run a Room Off macro to ensure that the first controls the next user sees are the simplest, most straightforward ones.

hopefully that explains the situation a bit better. Still hoping for some undocumented command.

Thanks for clarifying - now I understand your use case. That said, I don't believe there are any undocumented commands in the API, I never heard of engineering doing that in the 12+ years I was with Tandberg/Cisco. 

 

An idea for you - with your "System Off" button, you could program your control system to put the codec in Standby mode, if I'm not mistaken the codec will always go to the default home screen coming out of standby. I don't have any way to test that but I'm pretty sure that would work if you think that will be an acceptable compromise - all your users should know what to do from there. 

I don't think it's possible to change the page that is selected on the Touch 10, as there aren't any commands to do this, only commands available are for widgets.

The standby idea may be the closest i can get. I'll give this a shot and see if it gets us close.

 

Thanks for the input.