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This is where you define your port for communicating with players. The port is also opened/closed here.
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Regex
Regex means Regular Expressions. It’s a way to modify the automation commands to something more compatible with Chameleon. There are plenty of resources explaining how to work with regular expressions and granted it’s not a trivial pursuit. Basically, we’re defining a pattern and how to replace the automation command’s format. There’s no limit to how many regexes are defined and when Trigger Master gets an automation command, it attempts to convert the string using the regexes in the order in the grid.
For example, here is the regexes for replacing Chyron CII extended commands to typical Chameleon commands with <> prefix/suffix.
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Test Trigger
fasdljasfl
Preferences
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Test Trigger
We can send test strings to either the players or back at automation from the Test Trigger tab. When sending a trigger command to players, regex is used so it becomes a good way to test your regex setting.
We can also send messages back at automation. Some automation systems may want notification that a player has received a trigger so this becomes a good way to test that the automation system is receiving messages.
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Preferences
Finally, the Preferences tab provides a way to optionally have the player(s) reply back to automation. So, it It goes in the reverse direction of the trigger. This can be used to acknowledge to automation that a trigger has been acted upon.
Also, there is support for Regular Expressions to format automation commands before being pushed out to the players. This is a useful way to reformat automation commands especially in cases where automation doesn’t meet Chameleon’s specifications.
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Use System Tray when set has Trigger Master hide into the system tray when closed as opposed to exiting the application. More on that in the Additional Notes section.
Some automation systems poll their servers to make sure they’re still alive. This is generally called a heartbeat test. This usually follows with the server replying with a string also called a heartbeat reply. Trigger Master optionally supports heartbeats by letting you set the heartbeat string and reply.
Automation systems usually send a newline as the delimiter for commands in the case of sending more than one at a time. However, the delimiter can be modified to any string.
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Additional Notes
Trigger Master has support for verbose logging. When on, you’ll get all the activity on the ports in the logs. It’s essential to have verbose logging on during testing but it’s fine to turn it off in production. We’ll still see exceptions in the logs if verbose logging is turned off. Verbose logging is turned on/off from the Help menu and it’s state is shown in the status bar.
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Trigger Master is designed to act optionally as a System Tray application. When closing the app, it doesn’t shutdown but instead gets tucked away in the system tray. To relaunch it (show it) from the system tray, either double click it there or right-click the mouse to get options including launching it or shutting it down.
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