Luca

I'm using an aux timeline to switch on/off 8 barco projectors using TCP command string. I created 8 TCP output each one configured with its projector IP and port and then put the 8 cues on a timeline with the power on/off string. Now it happens that when it runs only the first 3 projectors switch on/off. I thought a it was due to network issue but the strange thing is that if I put the power on output command of the PJs 4,5,6 before PJs 1,2,3 watchout switch on the 4,5,6 PJs and not the 1,2,3,7,8 and so on. So it seems that the output works only for the first 3 connections... do you have any experience on that?

in 5.3 it is not solved. any news?

thanks to the help of my local reseller the problem is now solved. 1) remove administrator password from the projector web control interface 2) open a connection on TCP port 4352 3) send pjlink commands like this: %1COMMAND VALUE$0D (for example for power on command %1POWR 31$0D)

Hi Jonas, I've sent a projector to my local reseller which wants to do some tests himself. BTW I'll try to send an UDP command instead of a TCP one but probably late in August as I'll come back from vacation the 20th. I'll post here the results.

opening a telnet prompt it is possible to write several commands on a single connection of course. but with watchout it seems that every time an output cue is "played", watchout try to establish a new connection even if the previous one is still active. for example, if i need to shutter on the projector at time 05.00 and shutter off at 12.00 watchout plays the timeline till 5.00, than establishes a connection with the projector and turn the shutter on, after that, at time 12.00 it tryes to open another connection and send the shutter off command but the previous connection is still active so the command won't be sent. a 3rd output cue will force the connection to close and give a warning message, so the 4th works well. i'm ignoring the warning messages and using the 3 commands as a trik to close the connection but it is not a smart way to do the job... the same problem occours with different tcp controlled devices (i.e. an IP power)

The user manual says: In that way I'm not able to send more than one command to the same host in a minute. I need to open/close the shutter of a Panasonic Projector and I'm sending the 00osh:0$0D and 00osh:1$0D commands. Everything works like a charm if I send a single command every 60sec to the projector but if i try to send more commands within 60s it happens that the first command works, the 2nd don't and the 3rd gives a warning after forcing the connection to close, after that, the 4th works ok and so on: 5th no, 6th no+warning+connection closed, 7th OK, .... I was wandering if is there a way to smartly close the connection to avoid the warning and to control in a better way the connection closing.

with the same controller i also cannot use the first slider: an I/O error appear. from the slider number 2 to the last one everything works fine.

I wrote to datapath tech support and they gave me this solution: run cmd.exe as administrator and type the following command dplinks -changefriendlyname after running that command I was able to view 1080i50 1080p50 1080p25 720p50 so it seems to be solved

what I want to capture is a TV signal, but in many circumnstances I'll have to capture a folsom encore program (usually 50p) or a direction station program (usually 50i). for my tests I've used a folsom image pro HD which can give me all the output formats I need to test every signal.

Hi all, I have a watchout display computer that runs windows 7 pro x64 and W.O. 5.1 It has a Datapath VisionRGB-E2S (2x DVI In). With the datapath software (Vision windows) everything works ok: I can see a preview of my input in 1080i50 1080p50 1080p25 1080p59.94 and 1080p60 mode. In W.O. environment I can only see it working in 1080p59.94 and 1080p60. If I set both the source and the W.O. Video Input to 1080p50 or 1080p25 or 1080i50, watchout only output a still frame of my input. It grabs a new frame every time I heat ctrl+D (update) but the live video is freezed. I have installed the latest Datapath drivers and installed watchout 5.1 after the driver installation.

I red that topic but the command i found there doesn't work: with PT-DZ6710 and PT-DZ110X the communication is on port 1024 and not 4352. The syntax for a power On is "00pon" and for example for the shutter to go on is "00osh:1" then an "enter" ($0D watchout hexadecimal code). If I create a TCP/IP output communication, with the correct IP and Port and then create a command 00osh:1$0D I have to "play" it 3 times before getting it work. at the 3rd time i play that command and only at every 3rd time, it works. I tried to control another device: a power IP interruptor which can be controlled through web links (so I used GET http command) and even this device, can be controlled by sendig 3 times the same command... edit: I don't know what the "%1" prefix used in the command on the thread linked above means, but in my situation, if i place the %1 code before my command, it doesn't work at all

Hi all, I'm going to set-up a show in which I need to send some remote controls to Panasonic projectors (PT-DZ6710 and PT-DZ110X ). Both use the same control commands and the same protocol. I set a TCP output, set the IP and port and set the command string (for example shutter On is "00OSH:1$0D"). The first time i send this command, it seems the projector don't receive it, the second time watchout shows a warning that says that the command was not sent and the 3rd time it works. So, every command I want to send, I have to send it 3 times: the 1st one doesn't work at all, the 2nd always displays a warning and the 3rd always work. It's a strange thing, isn't it? Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Panasonic, barco and Christie are probably the widely used projectors, so maybe someone can give me a hint... Thanks, Luca.