Command matrix

The command matrix allows you to map incoming commands from external services to PlayoutONE.

📝 Adding a command

Enabled / Disabled	Enables or disables this particular command
Description	A meaningful description. For example, 'Play legal ID'
Group	The group the command belongs to. (See Selective Mode)
Stations	The PlayoutONE station the command should be actioned on
PC	The Data Controller PC which will carry out the command
Incoming command service	Where the incoming command is coming from
Incoming command	The command from the service to watch for
Outgoing command type	Predefined: Choose an existing command in PlayoutONE Command: Build your own PlayoutONE command Passthrough (See below)
Outgoing command	The outgoing command
Settings	Settings for the command include the ability to set an alarm if the command isn't received after a set time.
Daypart	Choose to only action this command based on the daypart grid.

🔀 Command passthrough

Command Passthrough allows you to take an incoming command and pass it back out again.

To set this up you need to follow the steps below:

For commands that are static and never change, simply change the command type to Passthrough.
For commands that have dynamic content within them (Such as now playing data) format the command as follows:
- Set the incoming command to be 'Passthrough'. Format the command sent to Data Controller as follows:

PASSTHROUGH|OUTGOINGSERVICE|COMMMAND

For example, 'PASSTHROUGH|COM1|Now Playing: Rolling Stone - Satisfaction', will send 'Now playing: Rolling Stones - Satisfaction' to the COM1 port. You can add '&CMD=' to the command to ignore the service.