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Author Topic: Barco ACS/DCS ethernet control Bajsic Bojan Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Ljubljana, Si, Eu Registered: Aug 2008 posted 11-06-2011 02:04 AM                     Hello Using a doremi server i am trying to make macros to control the Barco alternate content switcher over the ethernet. The instructions say that one should connect to the ip over the port 3000 for access, then execute commands. Problem is, i can only connect to the unit only once and execute one command. Then it is not possible to connect to the unit again for another command, unless i reboot the switcher, then i can execute another (1!) command etc. Is maybe the telnet session not closed and stays 'active' once the command goes through? Can anyone please give me correct syntax to use for a macro (line breaks, logout sequence, any login sequences needed?) in use on any kind of server. If i try to manually connect to the acs using putty or a telnet service, i can do it once, then it also goes inactive. I get the 'connection refused' message. I can then only login using the following syntax " telnet -a 192.168.0.xyz 23 " and retyping the username and password. Thank you for any input.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-06-2011 09:12 AM                     I believe that with the current version (1.04) that having to close/open the port is taken care of. What version are you running? -Steve  |  IP: Logged Bajsic Bojan Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Ljubljana, Si, Eu Registered: Aug 2008 posted 11-06-2011 02:50 PM                     DCS100 running firmware 1.15, tried also 1.14 without success. Would be nice to have working macro syntax if possible. Thank you  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-06-2011 03:20 PM                     I have not worked with a DCS100 yet...just the ACS2048 and the ImagePro stuff. So it may be different on the DCS100. -Steve  |  IP: Logged Bajsic Bojan Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Ljubljana, Si, Eu Registered: Aug 2008 posted 11-06-2011 03:27 PM                     The "Communicating with barco ACS..." chapters in the manuals are word for word the same in the manuals for ACS2048, DCS100, DCS200. The commands are the same (altho the ACS has fewer). For doremi i set up a RAW device, tcp communication, port 3000 (or 23). The macro i use 'send > text message', with the message being ie "ISEL -i 8<CR>" anything i am doing wrong? I see the imagepro communicates ethernet commands via 10001 port. I'll try that for fun also.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-06-2011 03:51 PM                     Many of the ImagePro commands work on the ACS2048 despite them not being listed in the ACS2048 manuals. -Steve  |  IP: Logged

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