Adding Custom Controls - 7th Sense R Series User Manual

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Front Panel Control and Display
For Delta units, overlay of stats, information or performance graphs can be added:

Adding Custom Controls

All front panel display and controls are managed by the Watchdog app that runs alongside any
Performer running on a R-Series server. This is accessible from the system tray icon. OSC (Open
Sound Control) messaging is available in Delta, Medialon, Compere and Actor, and is used to send
requests to an external web server, to display custom controls and information in an inline frame
(iframe) on the front panel.
The configuration file that creates and names buttons to call in external web pages is C:
\7thSense\Watchdog\WebServer\config.json.
Example, two buttons addressing different servers:
{
"settings": {
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