PJLink

A Common Lisp library for interfacing with PJLink standard compliant devices.

PJLink projectors operate over TCP/IP.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Usage
  • Connection Parameters
  • Class 2
    • Search Procedure
    • Status Notification
• Dependencies
• License

Overview

This library implements both class 1 and class 2 support, in which you can:

Class 1:

• Query power status and power projector on/off
• Query current and available inputs, and set active input
• Query and set audio-video mute status
• Query error status, for projector components (fan, lamp, etc)
• Get lamp information (usage time, on/off)
• Query projector, manufacturer, and product names.

Class 2:

• LAN Projector discovery.
• Projector status notifications.
• Serial version query.
• Resolution query.
• Lamp and filter model numbers.
• Microphone and speaker control.
• Projector "freeze" control
• Software version information.

Usage

Code examples have *ip* bound to the IP of the projector, eg "192.168.1.2"

;; Get power status
(pjlink:get-power-status *ip*)
;; =>
:STANDBY

;; Turn projector on
(pjlink:power-on *ip*)

(pjlink:get-power-status *ip*)
;; =>
:WARM-UP

;; After some time
(pjlink:get-power-status *ip*)
;; =>
:LAMP-ON


;; Query available inputs
(pjlink:get-inputs *ip*)
;; =>
((:RGB . 1) (:VIDEO . 2) (:DIGITAL . 3) (:STORAGE . 4) (:RGB . 2) (:VIDEO . 6) (:DIGITAL . 7))

;; Set the input to one of them
(pjlink:set-input '(:video . 6) *ip*)

;; Get the currently active input
(pjlink:get-input *ip*)
;; =>
(:VIDEO . 6)

Connection Parameters

In addition to parameters for the commands themselves and the host designator, all of the PJlink commands accept a 'host designator' and the following keyword parameters:

• port - Port to connect to. Defaults to PJLink port (4352)
• password - Password to use if authentication is required
• local-hort - Local interface to use for the connection
• local-port - Local port to use for the connection

Each of these parameters has a corresponding generic function you may specialize in order to make it easier to pass along similar parameters, or to customize eg password retrieval:

(defclass my-pjlink-host ()
  ())

(defmethod pjlink:host ((obj my-pjlink-host))
  *ip*)

(defmethod pjlink:password ((obj my-pjlink-host))
  "Get the password by reading it from the user"
  (read-password-from-user))

;; ...

(pjlink:power-on (make-instance 'my-pjlink-host))

The class pjlink-config is provided as a simple container:

(let ((config (make-instance 'pjlink:pjlink-config
                             :host *ip*
                             :password "JBMIAProjectorLink)))
  ;;Set the input to one of the available ones
  (let ((inputs (pjlink:get-inputs config)))
    (pjlink:set-input* (first inputs) config))
  ;;Power off the projector
  (pjlink:power-off config))

Class 2

Class 2 the ability to query the LAN for projectors and receive notifications.

Search Procedure

Projectors on the LAN can be queried by using the class 2 search procedure.

Note: It is highly recommend to specify an interface (network card) to conduct the search, as it is based on UDP broadcast and will not route properly otherwise.

Note: This is a synchronous, 30 second call as per the spec

Note: Because the search procedure uses the same port as status notification, currently there's no way to conduct a search while a status listener is active.

(pjlink:search-projectors :local-host *interface-address*)
;; 30 seconds later
;; =>
((#(192 168 2 5) . #(188 95 244 185 102 171))
 (#(192 168 2 5) . #(10 0 39 0 0 14)))

The return value here is a list of projector IP's and mac-addresses

Status Notification

A status-listener can be created to asynchronously monitor projector status. These updates have to be configured on the projector in a model-specific fashion so that they notify a host of status updates via UDP. Creating and starting a listener will create a background worker thread to monitor this socket and signal an event when a status update occurs:

Note: It is highly recommended to specify an interface (network card) to listen on, rather than using the 'default' network interface.

(defun print-pjlink-event (remote-host event-type args)
  (format t "Received notification from ~A: ~A = ~A" remote-host event-type args))

;; When 'handlers' is provided, listener is started automatically
(defparameter *listener* (pjlink:make-status-listener :local-host *interface-address* :handlers #'print-pjlink-event))

;; Otherwise call (pjlink:start-listener *listener*)

;; When finished listening for events:
(pjlink:stop-listener *listener*)

;; Can always resume listening later:
(pjlink:start-listening *listener*)

Dependencies

• alexandria
• bordeaux-threads
• ip-interfaces
• md5
• split-sequence
• trivial-garbage
• usocket

License

See LICENSE