cleavelam Posted December 12, 2016 Report Share Posted December 12, 2016 I would like to ask is it possible to retrieve the task list information from Watchout through telnet? E.g. what are the existing task list / task name / task duration , time of pauses and other control related information etc. Thanks very much. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted December 13, 2016 Moderator Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 All of that is available, simply take a look at WATCHOUT Remote and you will see all of what you asked for in action. But I am on vacation this week and do not have time to look all that detail up at the moment, possibly someone else can help in the meantime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dataton Partner Benoit Posted December 15, 2016 Dataton Partner Report Share Posted December 15, 2016 Hi, Try "getAuxTimelines", but it works only on players, not producers. Benoit 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Fahl Posted December 16, 2016 Report Share Posted December 16, 2016 Should work the same in v6. What version are you using? Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted December 16, 2016 Moderator Report Share Posted December 16, 2016 Above should answer the timeline part of the question. As for the other part ... ... time of pauses and other control related information etc. ... WATCHOUT Remote parses each timeline and creates a tabbed list of every control cue and its time position in each timeline. Based on current timeline position, it also creates a countdown timer to the next pause cue. I believe support for those functions was included in the WATCHOUT Systems Manager developers kit. WATCHOUT Remote is the working example / sample app provided with the developers kit, to be used as a starting point for custom development. i.e. It should show you how to access those functions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleavelam Posted December 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2016 Thanks very much for the all the help. We are using watchout 6.1 and I've gone through the manual (WATCHOUT_Users_Guide_6.1) and seems the telnet commands listed in the Appendix C are mostly control, but not fetching the task list information from the WATCHOUT. (Except querying for a task status explicitly, but seems there ain't commands that we can query for all information - and the getAuxTimelines are not found in the manual too.) Seems we'll need the "WATCHOUT Systems Manager developers kit" to know more about the remote access / API etc - may I ask where can I obtain it? Can I download it from the website? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted December 30, 2016 Moderator Report Share Posted December 30, 2016 Yes, WATCHOUT Systems Manager is now discontinued, version 1.1 (WATCHMan_1.1.zip) is found in DATATON software - earlier versions archive 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleavelam Posted January 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 Thank you very much for the information. I've taken a look at the Systems Manager - and yes it seems that it can have full control over the WATCHOUT at the flex application through the package - i suppose it is drive by the Telnet command too? As we would like to control WATCHOUT more remotely, we've looked into the Manager codes and the API documentation of the WATCHNET - seems it's the API documentation of com.dataton.watchout.* - of which is a flex application package i suppose? Is there a manual of all Telnet commands / operation available to control WATCHOUT at the moment that we can reference on? It seems that the Telnet Command list in the WATCHOUT 6 manual is not comprehensive - just like the "getAuxTimelines" telnet commands are not discussed in the Manual. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluetonesblue Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 Yes, WATCHOUT Systems Manager is now discontinued, version 1.1 (WATCHMan_1.1.zip) is found in DATATON software - earlier versions archive Is there a reason that this has been discontinued? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted January 3, 2017 Moderator Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 I always thought it was lack of customer interest. To the best of my knowledge all of the functions work the same with today's WATCHOUT versions. By placing it on the discontinued list, it is what it is - development has stopped on that product. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackboyd Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 As we would like to control WATCHOUT more remotely, we've looked into the Manager codes and the API documentation of the WATCHNET - seems it's the API documentation of com.dataton.watchout.* - of which is a flex application package i suppose? Is there a manual of all Telnet commands / operation available to control WATCHOUT at the moment that we can reference on? It seems that the Telnet Command list in the WATCHOUT 6 manual is not comprehensive - just like the "getAuxTimelines" telnet commands are not discussed in the Manual. Agreed - Is this documented anywhere? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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