Specifications

Serial Protocol File Editor

AMX InspiredSignage XPress Programming Guide

Adding a List Variable

Clicking Add Variable will display the New Variable pane (FIG. 100). Within this pane, enter a Variable

Name, then select List. To proceed, click Next.

In the Edit Variable page (FIG. 101), enter a Command Name, select whether the command is going to be

entered as Text or Hex, and enter the appropriate command text.

You will notice that below the Command fields are 3 rows of buttons. These buttons allow you to enter special

characters in both Text and Hex modes. You will notice that depending on the mode, the values associated with

each button press is specially encoded. This is to avoid security issues associated with non-standard HTML

characters. These specially encoded characters will be decoded correctly when the FSM file is generated.

When finished, click Save Command if you would like to add more commands to this list, or Finish if you are

done with the list and want to move on to the next variable, or you wish to export the completed FSM file.

FIG. 100 New variable pane

Shared variables take the format amx:control:[TARGET]:[VARIABLE]. The

combination of Target and Variable is used when creating the shared variable to

create the human readable format of the commands. For example, a Target of

“monitor” and a variable named “power” would create a shared variable named

“amx:control:monitor:power” that you can then use to control the attached device.

FIG. 101 Edit Variable Page - List variable