ProppFrexx ONAIR User-Forum

Hi Bernd,

I've looked in the last manual for more info about the control room messaging options but sadly the info documented is not very help full to get the clue

All i want is that to send messages to the Broadcast PC from a device in the control room, i was thinking to make a local RSS feed to make it happen but it's not efficient as the is a private section for control room messaging.

Could you help me on that?

Thanks.

Sure.
A little command-line tool is provided with ProppFrexx which might be used for that. It's called "pfremcmd.exe" and can be found in the ProppFrexx installation folder.
This tool allows you to send any control-command via TCP to any ProppFrexx ONAIR instance.
Note, that the resp. ProppFrexx instance must have the TCP Server option enabled (see the link below for a detailed explanation)!

As such you can invoke that little tool from your 'device' to e.g. send a message.
If you don't want to use that tool, your device might also implement a native TCP/IP communication by itself (the link below also contains detailed info about that).

"pfremcmd.exe" : Usage:
pfremcmd -h=<host> -p=<port> -a=<password> <options>

This tool allows you to send control-commands to a ProppFrexx ONAIR instance.
The TCP-Remote-Control Server must be enabled on that remote instance.
The remote instance to send the commands to is identified by:
<host> : IP-Address or DNS name of the remote instance
<port> : port address of the of the remote instance
<password> : authorization password of the of the remote instance

Options:
-c="<command>" : the control command to send
or
-f="<file>" : a filename containing the control command(s) to send

-silent : supress any header output
-help : print this help

Examples:
pfremcmd -h=192.168.0.1 -p=8052 -a=r42 -c="SHOW_ALERT_WINDOW Caption|Message"
pfremcmd -h=192.168.0.1 -p=8052 -a=r42 -f="c:\commands.txt"

The above 'SHOW_ALERT_WINDOW' control-command might already do the job you were asking for.
For a complete list of possible control-commands take a look to the User Manual.

Detailed Infos about the TCP interface can be found here:
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