Possible Temporary System Override Option???

[Andrew Welch]

Is there something that exists or in the works that could serve as a
temporary system override on the Image and Ticker areas within the
signage (e.g. for something like an alert or emergency situation that
needs to go out) without having to manually subscribe feeds to
screen(s) to only show an alert feed?

Does this make sense? Ideas? Thanks.

[Brian Michalski]

Concerto has support for Emergency Alert Feeds, which are feeds that can bump off any other feed subscription iff they have active content in them.  You don't have to subscribe them anywhere, they're are "hardcoded" to have a higher priority than anything else in the system.

For example, here at RPI we have a dynamic feed setup to pull in RSS from our public safety department's emergency alert RSS feed.  If that RSS feed has content the dynamic code will populate that in the correct Concerto feed.  Every time a screen looks for new content it looks to see if there is an emergency feed defined and if that feed has content for the specified field (i.e is there any ticker content in the emergency feed).  If the content exists, it returns that immediately... otherwise the system operates as normal.

To set up an emergency feed all you have to do create a feed in the system and set it up as normal (there is nothing that says you must use a dynamic feed for emergency's, that's just what works best for us).  Note it's ID number (you'll spot it in URLs), and put that in the config.inc.php like this (assuming 10 is our feed id): define('EMS_FEED_ID', 10);  Pretty simple setup!

Thanks,

~Brian M

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[Brian Michalski]

I don't think so.  Looking at a photo I took during a test of the alert system it looks like Concerto only overrides the content in fields that have emergency content to show.  We would always use the graphics field for emergency content, so the sidebar, ticker, and date/time kept going as usual.

~Brian M

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Austin Hart <daust...@gmail.com> wrote:

Brian,

Do the emergency alerts replace the system time field by default? 

~Brian M

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