RE: New User Guidance

[Ian Lowe]

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>Hi All

HI Martin, welcome to ukha-xpl!

>I'm a new user to XPL, i've been using XAP to send messages from HV to
>my Slimp3 player using the simple XAP send utility.
>I have a number of camera's outside which are connected to HV input
>ports and it displays which camera has been triggered on my Slimp3.

Sounds nice and easy to get playing :)

>The new Slimp3 software includes a XPL plugin and i've got the HVXPL
>plugin and XPLHAL running - how can i now configure these apps to do
>what i want ?

Okay, xplhal is a scripting engine, it runs scripts in response to xPL
messages, time of day, other external triggers. There are two ways to
get at that functionality - the original method (and the most powerful
if you want to get all geeky on it's ass ;) ) is to write a wee vbScript
- this is best done through the Scripts interface of the xplhal manager.

The newer, and much friendlier, way is to use Determinators - basically
all xpl apps have an xml description, which tells xplhal manager how to
handle the messages it generates, and how to use it's features.

>Basically if Inputs B1 - B8 go high i want slimp to display a Xpl
>message telling me which camera has been tripped, not too sure how to
do
>this just yet .

Sounds pretty easy - assuming the right stuff is "wired up" in
Steve and
John's xml files..

Here's a (very loose!!) walk through:

1) fire up xplhal manager, and update your plugin library - Help >
Update Plugin Library> Select All > OK

2) Right Click on "Determinators", and choose "new
determinator" - the
wizard appears.

3) Click Next

4) Give it a Name, like "Display Camera Triggers", Click Next

5) Now we add conditions - if these are all met, the determinator will
"fire" - click Add

6) this lists all of the known xPL apps on the network - select the HV
App - in the triggers/conditions box, an option should appear for
something like "Sensor reading received" - choose the type of
sensor
"input", Fill in the "name" field and Click OK

This is where my help becomes patchy, as I don't have homevision!!
Basically, this should cause the determinator to "trip" whenever
a
"input" type sensor message is received from Homevision.

7) in "actions" select the slim server, the action "display
on screen
message" should appear.. this lets you enter a message to be popped on
screen when the determinator fires. Fill in the "name" field and
Click
OK


This gives a wee "end to end" test - HV fires, OSD displays an
arbitrary
text in response - now we need to get the actual camera details that
fired.. this is where I nervously shuffle about, then bolt for the edge
of the stage. ;)

I'll leave this for John rather than possibly talking sh*te from here!

Ian.