Hi Terry,
I have a number of institutions with rooms with multiple projectors.
I don't use the designated "Display" joins, rather I allocate other
analog joins for lamp hours and digital joins for on/off and status
etc. It makes the reporting a little more difficult, but I have
written modules to generate RV strings to generate database entries as
required.
Lindsay
--- In Crestron@..., "Terry Graham" <tlg@...> wrote:
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
