Panasonic Projector Shutter control Issues

[Robert Jensen]

Hi all,

Hoping someone has an idea about how to solve a problem we are having controlling the shutters in my Panasonic projectors.

We have been doing this via Projector MIDI remote (PMR). Basic set up is that a single iMac is feeding 2 projectors off the thunderbolt ports via extron cat5 to hdmi extenders. See the system specs below. We have done this set up before and every so often the PMR would lose one or both projectors. No being deal we just reboot and we were good to go. The assumption was that the operator likely didn't do the boot up sequence correctly. This production however I can not get the PMR to fine on of the projectors. It was there on set up we lost it and now amount of rebooting gets it back. The odd part is that I can find it in Safari via its IP address and control them via the projectors web server. 

Having discovered that I dipped my toe in the waters of a script to control them. I found the script posted here by micpool. Copied and pasted it to the script cue. Then edited the IP address and verified the username and PW where correct, but it did not trigger the shutters. 

Any one have thoughs as to what may be the issue?

video computer

iMac 27" late 2013 3.5 GHz I7 32 GB Nividia GeForce GTX 780M 4GB OS X 10.9.5

2x Panasonic PT-EW 630U video feed from iMac thunderbolt ports to Extron DTP HDMI 390 Extenders

sound computer

iMac 21.5" late 2013 i5 

All networked via a Linksys SE2800 Gigabit Ethernet Switch.

All have fixed IP address and all are set to the same Gateway.

Using this script

set powerOn to "/cgi-bin/power_on.cgi"

set powerOff to "/cgi-bin/power_off.cgi"

set shutterClose to "/cgi-bin/proj_ctl.cgi?key=shutter_on&lang=e&osd=on"

set shutterOpen to "/cgi-bin/proj_ctl.cgi?key=shutter_off&lang=e&osd=on"

#Do not change anything above this line!

set theServer to "192.168.0.21" -- set this to the ip address of the projector

set theUsername to "admin1" -- set this to the username for the projector

set thePassword to "panasonic" --set this to the password for the projector

set theCommand to shutterOpen --set the command required, option are, powerOn, powerOff, shutterClose, shutterOpen

#Do not change anything below this line

set theProtocol to "http" -- vs https

set theUserPass to theUsername & ":" & thePassword -- your Indigo remote access username/password

set theURL to theProtocol & "://" & theUserPass & "@" & theServer & theCommand

set theFinalURL to "\"" & theURL & "\""

with timeout of 1 second

do shell script "/usr/bin/curl" & " " & "--connect-timeout" & " " & "1" & " " & theFinalURL

end timeout

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I may be off on this, but your projector is directly controllable via network. Couldn't you just send a UDP command directly instead of using a script to send UDP?

[Robert Jensen]

Might be but I don't know how that works.via qlab

Rob