Sending text based command to an external device from Uniview

Uniview can send text commands to external TCP based clients such that the command:

external.ID client1 hello world

Will send to the configured client1 the text: hello world

To set this up add this following lines to the Uniview.ini file.

[System] 
ExternalClientCount=1 

[ExternalClient1] 
ID=client1 
Address=192.168.10.10 
Port=17777 
ServicePort=15000

ID is the UID you want to use.

Address is the IP address of the machine that hosts the TCP server.

Port is the port of the listening TCP server.

ServicePort is the port that Uniview will open for communication.

Unfortunately in Uniview 2.0 there is a bug that makes it impossible to have more than one external client connected. This limitation would be resolved in the next release which would make it possible to have as many connection as are possible.