Digital Signage

UDP control

UDP CONTROL SCRIPT

UDP CONTROL HTA INTERFACE

COMPATIBILITY

  • PlugnCast V3.10.47
  • Playzilla V4.10.20 (or above)
  • Device 4.11.10
  • Dynamic media: video (local or UDP streaming)

INFORMATION

INSTALLATION

  • Activate the VESA DPMS for the concerned devices
  • Create a type text variable name (ex: videoSource), whose name has to be also defined in VAR_NAME of the playout script UDP-control-V1.10.10.js, and create values for this variable
    • Variable value examples:
      • udp://224.0.0.2:1234/
      • .domain-repository/video.mp4
  • Associate the variable videoSource value to the player
  • Add the video media in the playout manifest as linked medias
  • Insert the UDP-control-V1.10.10.js playout script in the tab script to execute
  • The players are listening to UDP messages on the UDP port value defined in the UDPMsgPort variable
  • The content is controlled using the mediaViaUDP.hta tool which is sending, message through UDP to the register players
  • Note: the .hta file is an editable file. So all the fields values can be modified
  • Launch the *.hta tool and press on the appropriate buttons to change the playout content view the HTA interface