xschedule run a projector off the serial port of the computer connected?

[arw01]

Have an old Panasonic projector and would like to have xschedule run it off the serial port for the on off sort of thing rather than via the IP address as I think the wireless on this beast is too old to connect to my ubiqiti gear.

do not have a wired ethernet port for either of them up in the attic where the laptop and projector will be located.

[keithsw1111]

Without the specs for your device there is not much we can do to help.

[arw01]

The FPP pi projector plug in works with it, but ran into another issue that maybe xschedule would handle differently.

If the projector pi is a remote to the master, it will NOT just play a playlist even if an event tells it to.

Make the remote pi a standalone and it will play the playlist just fine.

What I need to figure out is either leave it as a standalone and figure out how to make it listen to the other channels to run the virtual matrix coming off the master or how to get a video to run independent of the show.  Maybe a video as a back ground. don't know.

Will revisit the protocol after the holidays Keith, I had found it a year or two ago but do not know if I kept it.  A lot of the protocol was in the plugin Ben has off the pi.

[keithsw1111]

Can you point me more specifically to this plugin you speak of.

[arw01]

Can you point me more specifically to this plugin you speak of.

Home page for the git hub and a couple of screens off fpp on where it is in there:

https://github.com/LightsOnHudson/FPP-Plugin-Projector-Control

[Centauri61032]

How about just using some kind of a terminal emulator program. Something like Tera Term.
Writing a script using the commands you want to turn the projector on and off.
And then schedule the script to run at the needed times using any simple Windows scheduler?
I am doing this very thing with an old projector that I have.
If this sounds like something you want to look into, let me know and I can send more info.