Hello, I am developing an experience where a video will play to welcome visitors to a museum. I am considering using a tablet as a trigger to start the video and the experience. Could you recommend the best way to implement this setup?
Hi Orlando,
My colleague Matt Anderson just sent you a direct email to discuss your project on a call.
Looking forward to speaking with you soon.
Seb
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Hi Orlando, I’m sure Seb and the team have gotten in touch, but for others that find this post:
Use local network triggers, or web triggers. Build the tablet XP as a control panel, with buttons that send the triggers. Build another XP that runs on the display to ‘receive’ those triggers, and proceed with the desired actions. I usually like to build a little excel spreadsheet that lists all the trigger messages, and their actions. That way it’s easy to see all your remote functions in one place.
This is a very powerful setup, and you can technically use a tablet to control many displays across the whole museum, and perform mass-diagnostics like reboots, data refreshes etc. You can also tell the playback displays to send messages ‘back’ to the control tablet, so you know when actions were completed, or confirming what video or scene is showing on a particular display, or even creating a record on the control tablet to for a ‘history’ list of actions that were completed.
Good luck!
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What an excellent recommendation! But to complete this process, would two licenses be needed, or would a single player license be enough?
If you only need the control panel to ‘send’ then you probably could create your own web interface of buttons that send Web Triggers to your XP’s. This would not require a license for the control tablet, but would require more design/programming.
Personally, I would use another license to create the control panel XP within Intuiface as well. It’s far easier to build, support, and offers more functionality because of better two-way communications between XP’s.
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Hi Orlando,
Yes, totally doable! We did this interactive showroom using Local Network Triggers (not a tablet, but a PC with a back-projected touchscreen glass:
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