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Update user variable using AppleScript

James Tebb

March 11, 2020 10:35

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Hi I am looking for a way to update user variables remotely. Ideally this would be via AppleScript I am able to parse the BrightSign url to get values but can’t figure out how to post back updates Any ideas??

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  Brandon March 11, 2020 10:41

  Well, with jQuery you'd use
  $.post('http://localhost:8008/SetValues', BSvars);

  Where BSvars is a JavaScript object consisting of name:value pairs, for example
  var BSvars = { myVariable:"Hello", myOtherVariable:"World"};

  Posting that would set the variable named myVariable in the presentation to the string Hello and the variable named myOtherVariable in the presentation to the string World

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  James Tebb March 12, 2020 13:55

  Thanks Brendon
  This has got me thinking...
  What I would like to do is....
  Excel doc on a Mac on local network
  The brightsigns variables update based on value’s in the excel doc
  I’m aware that this could be treated as an RSS feed however I need to be able to trigger the update as opposed to waiting 30 secs
  Is there a method to do this maybe with background script

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  Bright Scripters March 16, 2020 00:17

  If RSS works for you then you could initiate a feed refresh using the "Update Data Feed" command, and trigger it by sending a UDP message from you application to the player.

   

  The Update Data Feed command can be found here

  https://docs.brightsign.biz/display/DOC/Conditional+Targets+and+Commands