Hello to all. It has been a long time since I posted and/or contributed to this group. I hope you are all doing well. When the number of messages per day started to seriously rise, I simply found myself unable to keep up. Plus my job role changed and so I started doing less daily programming.
But, I find myself cycling back into a bit more programming lately and I have a question that I hope you can help me with.
Long before RoomView was around, I had developed a 'RoomView like' display of the status of multiple rooms using php hacked Econtrol 1. This was still working for us (with numerous crutches), however we have begun to migrate over to RVSE recently.
But one of the things that I was able to do with this was to easily accommodate rooms with multiple projectors. The php would simply add a separate line for each additional projector in a room. See a screen shot here:
For those who have deployed RV in a varied environment, how do you handle rooms with multiple displays - not just graphically, but programmatically. I thought about using multiple RV symbols but that does not seem like the best solution. Most rooms only have one projector/display. If I add the info for second and third projectors to the same symbol then it seems like I would end up with blank columns for 90% of the rooms I monitor.
What about the Display Usage? I thought about sending the greater value of all of the monitors so that it is still useful. But that assumes the same model is used as lamp life varies from model to model. Same goes with the Display Power field. Should I attempt to share it with an OR (meaning any display is on) or recreate separate ones for the additional displays.
Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated.
t
