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Digital Movie Poster K-Scape plug-in feature set help

Apologies in advance for the slight thread hijack here.

CPDID is a way to assign each device in your Kaleidescape system a unique ID number for routing commands to. By default, the devices in your system have their CPDID set to "None". You can assign a CPDID on the Control tab of the device settings as @Transepoch mentions above.
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The assignable number range is from "02" to "99" with "01" being reserved as the local device. You need to assign a different CPDID to each device. CPDIDs are used when you have a control system that can only connect to one specific IP address (usually the Kaleidescape server) but needs to communicate and control multiple devices. The control system sends commands to the server but prefixes them with the CPDID of the device that it wants to talk to and the K server forwards the command appropriately.

I'm curious to know why this cover art plugin has the CPDID as a required field (as shown in the example screenshot in @DMB 's post above). If the plugin only communicates with the Kaleidescape server, then the CPDID shouldn't be required since you've already provided the IP address for the server (and you can assume a CPDID of "01").

Depending on what this plug in is trying to do, there are other, cleaner ways to auto-discover and communicate with devices in the system rather than having the user enter an IP address (or a CPDID).
 
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J.Green said:
Apologies in advance for the slight thread hijack here.

CPDID is a way to assign each device in your Kaleidescape system a unique ID number for routing commands to. By default, the devices in your system have their CPDID set to "None". You can assign a CPDID on the Control tab of the device settings as @Transepoch mentions above.
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The assignable number range is from "02" to "99" with "01" being reserved as the local device. You need to assign a different CPDID to each device. CPDIDs are used when you have a control system that can only connect to one specific IP address (usually the Kaleidescape server) but needs to communicate and control multiple devices. The control system sends commands to the server but prefixes them with the CPDID of the device that it wants to talk to and the K server forwards the command appropriately.

I'm curious to know why this cover art plugin has the CPDID as a required field (as shown in the example screenshot in @DMB 's post above). If the plugin only communicates with the Kaleidescape server, then the CPDID shouldn't be required since you've already provided the IP address for the server (and you can assume a CPDID of "01").

Depending on what this plug in is trying to do, there are other, cleaner ways to auto-discover and communicate with devices in the system rather than having the user enter an IP address (or a CPDID).
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Correct on all above. TBH I was not 100% sure whether or not I should have the ID in the app. I chose to leave it in there in case it was needed. But if it's not needed then we can easily push an update to remove it. So far on our Kaleidescape player we leave that setting blank.
 
DMB said:
Correct on all above. TBH I was not 100% sure whether or not I should have the ID in the app. I chose to leave it in there in case it was needed. But if it's not needed then we can easily push an update to remove it. So far on our Kaleidescape player we leave that setting blank.
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What platform is your plugin running on? If it supports either mDNS or SSDP, your plugin could be programmed to auto-discover any Kaleidescape servers that are present on the network and then just let the user choose their server from a dropdown box (perhaps with an option to enter the IP address directly "just in case").

For mDNS, Kaleidescape servers advertise themselves using "my-kaleidescape.local".

For SSDP, you can scan the network for devices with a manufacturer of "Kaleidescape, Inc." and a model name of "Terra Prime", "Terra", "Strato", or "Alto". From there, you could extract the device's serial number and IP address.

It gets a bit more complicated in multi-server systems (since you want to connect and communicate with the primary server in the group).

If this is of any interest and you want to discuss this more in-depth, PM me and we can take this offline.
 
J.Green said:
What platform is your plugin running on? If it supports either mDNS or SSDP, your plugin could be programmed to auto-discover any Kaleidescape servers that are present on the network and then just let the user choose their server from a dropdown box (perhaps with an option to enter the IP address directly "just in case").

For mDNS, Kaleidescape servers advertise themselves using "my-kaleidescape.local".

For SSDP, you can scan the network for devices with a manufacturer of "Kaleidescape, Inc." and a model name of "Terra Prime", "Terra", "Strato", or "Alto". From there, you could extract the device's serial number and IP address.

It gets a bit more complicated in multi-server systems (since you want to connect and communicate with the primary server in the group).

If this is of any interest and you want to discuss this more in-depth, PM me and we can take this offline.
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John...yes! Your help would be wonderful. I'm short for time right now but I would like to pick your brain and maybe have my dev in on all our discussions.
 
DMB said:
John...yes! Your help would be wonderful. I'm short for time right now but I would like to pick your brain and maybe have my dev in on all our discussions.
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Any time. Just send me a PM with your contact information and we can get a discussion going.
 
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