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Trouble with Keypad Entry

fogled@mizzoufogled@mizzou Posts: 549
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I'm not getting any kind of text string back from my keypad. On a page, I've got button defined as:

Type = general
Channel Port = 0
Channel Code = PageFlip: Keypad

I've got a keypad pasted into the system from the system template. I press the button and get the keypad to pop up, but when I enter text and press Done on the keypad, I don't see any string being sent to the controller.

I tried the type as "text entry" but that didn't give me any string to the controller either.

I think it's a problem with the definition of the button that provokes the keypad, but I can't figure out what. Any pointers out there?

Thanks,

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  • Spire_JeffSpire_Jeff Posts: 1,917
    Where are you looking for the string to be returned? I have not tried sending strings from keypads yet, but on touchpanels, the string is always generated on Port 1 of the touchpanel.

    Jeff
  • vincenvincen Posts: 526
    Spire_Jeff wrote:
    Where are you looking for the string to be returned? I have not tried sending strings from keypads yet, but on touchpanels, the string is always generated on Port 1 of the touchpanel.

    Well... you can get string from keypads for example on different ports but in that case you have not to use predefined keyboards functions of Modero but setup a string in button and then you can setup a port for it ;) Main inconvenient is more program work needs to be done to manage it that way ;)
  • fogled@mizzoufogled@mizzou Posts: 549
    I'm looking for the text to show up as a NetLinx Device Notification. I have all notifications turned on in the Notification Options. I see all the strings to and from my other devices, I see button pushes from every other level besides 0, but I never see a string show up in the Netlinx Device Notifications when I provoke the keypad, enter a number on the keypad, and press the Done button.

    I don't even know how to start troubleshooting. Anyone got any hints or help?
  • vincenvincen Posts: 526
    fogled@mizzou wrote:
    I'm looking for the text to show up as a NetLinx Device Notification. I have all notifications turned on in the Notification Options. I see all the strings to and from my other devices, I see button pushes from every other level besides 0, but I never see a string show up in the Netlinx Device Notifications when I provoke the keypad, enter a number on the keypad, and press the Done button.

    It's completely normal, panel won't return strings to master so long you did not declare in program DATA_EVENT on touch panel with string keyword in it, you can let it empty without anything, reload program in master and then you'll see incoming strings arrive in notifications ;)

    Hope it helps

    Vinc
  • fogled@mizzoufogled@mizzou Posts: 549
    vincen wrote:
    It's completely normal, panel won't return strings to master so long you did not declare in program DATA_EVENT on touch panel with string keyword in it

    OK. Normal, but confusing to me. I see everything else in device notifications whether or not I've trapped for it. I sure wouldn't mind being able to see the string come across before having to program for it. I feel like I'm throwing darts in the dark.
  • vincenvincen Posts: 526
    fogled@mizzou wrote:
    OK. Normal, but confusing to me. I see everything else in device notifications whether or not I've trapped for it. I sure wouldn't mind being able to see the string come across before having to program for it. I feel like I'm throwing darts in the dark.

    Well it's a conception choice in AMX systems, and it was already like that with previous systems (Axcess), it avoids to saturate master of system with bunchs of messages if you get some noisy RS ports. So the port sends strings it receives to master only if it's requested ;)

    Vince
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