UDP ACK receipt from Brightsign

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Hey.

Apologies if simple question, but I need to be able to send an ACK back to a Brightsign hardware player across UDP.

Essentially, the brightsign is going to ping the TD machine with an ‘are you alive’ UDP message every now and again and will be waiting for an ACK back. Is this literally just a question of sending back the string ‘ACK’ when I get a ping through a UDPin node?

Also, there’s a mention of that node being able to send a message back in the callback, presumably without having to pass over to a UDPout node but I can’t see any method to do that.

Any advice on how best to acknowledge the brightsign’s UDP message gratefully received!

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In the UDP In DAT’s onReceive callback you can use dat.send(msg) to send a message back.

I don’t have any experience with Brightsign hardware so I’m not sure exactly what it expects. Is there a communication spec?

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