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Chapter 4 Routine Operations
Registering Additional Control
Commands
By sending a control command to an NSP-1, the following
types of controls are available:
• Control of an external device, such as a plasma display
or projector, via an RS-232C connection.
• Control of the output audio level of an NSP-1.
Unlike other materials, these control commands are not
specified in the playlists, but they can be included in the
daily schedules together with the playlists. You can also
send them to an NSP-1 to manually control the NSP-1
itself or the connected device.
Some commands for the NSP-1 and Sony’s plasma
displays whose operations have been confirmed in
combination with the NSP-1 are provided with the BZNP-
D1 software. The following procedures add more control
commands.
• Refer to the protocol manual of the plasma display for
details on its control commands. Ask your supplier or
Sony sales representative about the protocol manual.
• For information on the control commands of a third
party’s display or other device, ask the sales
representative of the device.
• Supplied control commands which have index numbers
of x07999000 or greater, cannot be deleted. If you make
modifications on such a control command, it is saved
with a new index number.
1
Select the Control tab in the Content Management
window.
2
Right-click any point on the Control tab, then select
[New] on the popup menu.
The Edit Control dialog box appears.
3
Specify the following items in the Edit Control dialog
box, then click [OK].
The Edit Control dialog box closes.
The new control command appears in the Content
management window.
To modify control commands
Right-click the line of the control command to be modified
in the Content Management window, then click [Edit] on
the popup menu. This opens the Edit Control dialog box
containing the content of the selected control command.
Modify the data, then click [OK].
To just modify the type and/or title, select the control
command in the Content Management window, then click
its Type or Title column. This makes the column editable.
Notes
Item Description
Type Type of the control command (up to 20
characters).
Title Title of the control command (up to 40
characters). You can identify the
control commands by the type and
title.
Target Select the target from the following:
• NSP-1 Audio Output Level
Controls the audio output level of the
NSP-1.
• Via RS-232C Port
Controls the device connected to the
NSP-1 RS-232C connector, such as
a plasma display or projector.
Parameter-1,
Parameter-2
Specify a code corresponding to the
desired control.
• NSP-1 Audio Output Level
Specify the desired audio level (0
through 100(%)) in the Parameter-1
text box. The Parameter-2 text box is
not used.
• Via RS-232C Port
Specify the hexadecimal code of the
command to be sent in the
Parameter-1 text box. In the
Parameter-2 text box, a hexadecimal
code corresponding to “ACK” to be
sent from the device as return data
is specified. The NSP-1 records an
error in its error log if the return data
is not identical with the specified
code.
The Parameter-2 text box should be
blank if the connected device will not
return any data. An NSP-1 will retry
sending a command until it receives
return data, hence a problem may
occur if the device returns nothing.
Specify the code, in either text box,
separated every two digits by a
space character. Do not omit “0”s, if
any.