Venus Scheduling: How do I configure play conditions in Venus Control Suite Data Studio?

Topic

Configure a playlist item to play based on the temperature.
Conditional scheduling based on numerical or text data.

Environment

Product: Data Studio, Venus Professional, Venus Enterprise
Components: Play Conditions
Control System: Venus Control Suite

This allows for rules or conditions to be written and assigned to playlist items. For example, a playlist item could be active if the temperature was above 75 degrees.

This feature is enabled through Venus Control Suite Permissions/Entitlements. Data Studio and Venus Control Suite are required for this conditional functionality. Venus Package Requirements: Venus Control Suite Package Choices

Steps

Log into Venus Control Suite Venus Accounts: How do I log in to Venus Control Suite?
Select Data Studio from the My Apps menu.

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Data Sources

A new or existing source will need to be used to configure the condition. Weather would be a good source as media could be configured to play based on temperature value

To configure a new source:

Choose Data Source from the left side navigation menu.
Follow: Data Studio: How do I configure web data sources?

Configure a condition based on numeric data

Choose Conditions from the left side navigation menu.
1. Choose Add New.
2. Add a name and description. .
Select the Data Feed.(as configured under Data Sources.)
Select a Field Path.
1. Click the pencil icon to add.
2. Navigate through the list of elements and select a data attribute to base your condition from. Note, this can only be numeric values.
Choose your parameters.

Example 1: We would want the condition to apply when the weather is below a specific numeric temperature value.

Example 2: The Data source shows that lottery winnings = billions.

Assign the condition to a playlist item.

Navigate to Venus Scheduling App> Playlist page.
Select the media file that needs the condition to play.

The condition created in Data Studio can be added to the item's properties.

Considerations

The data and message will refresh about every hour depending on how often the data is updated.
Multiple media can have the same condition.
Poof of play- the playlist item would report as it plays- a new schedule is actually generated to be tracked.

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