Input Trigger - Any ideas?

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Hello!

This is more of a idea collection thread. We are about to launch Xibo into a our new dessert bar. We have some big plans for it, 20+ screens running from 1080p single screens to 4x4 video walls all being well!

We have some unique ideas to make our screens work really well, but this one idea I keep tripping up on so hoping some brain box out there might have a solution. We want to be able to push a button (lets say connection to a RaspberryPi3) and that trigger selected screens/group to start playing A specific layout for 30-40 seconds and then they will resume back to their normal scheduling.

Looking at the Xibo documentation, I don’t see a way to have any form of COM port connection. I also don’t see anything in the player API to force-play a layout on demand. I have just hit a brick wall with this one.

Any suggestions would be great!

Thanks,

Alan

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https://xibo.org.uk/manual-tempel/api/#/displayGroup/displayGroupActionChangeLayout

That does exactly what you want. It will cause a layout to be shown on demand, and then revert to the normal schedule.

You should ideally assign the layouts you’re going to swap to using the Assign Layout function on the Display or Display group ahead of time, so that the Player keeps the layout downloaded ready to be shown. Otherwise you’ll need to pass in the option to download new content and the switch to show the temporary layout will take longer.