Registering Additional Control Commands

By sending a control command to an NSP-1, the following types of controls are available:

•Control of an external device, such as a plasma display or projector, via an RS-232C connection.

•Control of the output audio level of an NSP-1.

Unlike other materials, these control commands are not specified in the playlists, but they can be included in the daily schedules together with the playlists. You can also send them to an NSP-1 to manually control the NSP-1 itself or the connected device.

Some commands for the NSP-1 and Sony’s plasma displays whose operations have been confirmed in combination with the NSP-1 are provided with the BZNP- D1 software. The following procedures add more control commands.

Notes

•Refer to the protocol manual of the plasma display for details on its control commands. Ask your supplier or Sony sales representative about the protocol manual.

•For information on the control commands of a third party’s display or other device, ask the sales representative of the device.

•Supplied control commands which have index numbers of x07999000 or greater, cannot be deleted. If you make modifications on such a control command, it is saved with a new index number.

1 Select the Control tab in the Content Management window.

2 Right-click any point on the Control tab, then select [New] on the popup menu.

The Edit Control dialog box appears.

3 Specify the following items in the Edit Control dialog box, then click [OK].

Item

Description

Type

Type of the control command (up to 20

 

characters).

 

 

Title

Title of the control command (up to 40

 

characters). You can identify the

 

control commands by the type and

 

title.

 

 

Target

Select the target from the following:

 

•

NSP-1 Audio Output Level

 

 

Controls the audio output level of the

 

 

NSP-1.

 

•

Via RS-232C Port

 

 

Controls the device connected to the

 

 

NSP-1 RS-232C connector, such as

 

 

a plasma display or projector.

 

 

Parameter-1,

Specify a code corresponding to the

Parameter-2

desired control.

 

•

NSP-1 Audio Output Level

 

 

Specify the desired audio level (0

 

 

through 100(%)) in the Parameter-1

 

 

text box. The Parameter-2 text box is

 

 

not used.

 

•

Via RS-232C Port

 

 

Specify the hexadecimal code of the

 

 

command to be sent in the

 

 

Parameter-1 text box. In the

 

 

Parameter-2 text box, a hexadecimal

 

 

code corresponding to “ACK” to be

 

 

sent from the device as return data

 

 

is specified. The NSP-1 records an

 

 

error in its error log if the return data

 

 

is not identical with the specified

 

 

code.

 

 

The Parameter-2 text box should be

 

 

blank if the connected device will not

 

 

return any data. An NSP-1 will retry

 

 

sending a command until it receives

 

 

return data, hence a problem may

 

 

occur if the device returns nothing.

 

 

Specify the code, in either text box,

 

 

separated every two digits by a

 

 

space character. Do not omit “0”s, if

 

 

any.

 

 

 

The Edit Control dialog box closes.

The new control command appears in the Content management window.

To modify control commands

Right-click the line of the control command to be modified in the Content Management window, then click [Edit] on the popup menu. This opens the Edit Control dialog box containing the content of the selected control command. Modify the data, then click [OK].

To just modify the type and/or title, select the control command in the Content Management window, then click its Type or Title column. This makes the column editable.

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