Using Data Mapper

Data Mapper

• Learn how to set up a data source in Pixotope Director. Connect your scenes to external data sources quickly and easily via Control Panel or Blueprints.

Data Mapper allows to link external sources to any destination inside Pixotope. For a list of supported data sources see below.

Add a data source

1. In Director go to SETUP > Show > Data sources

2. Click "Add data source"

3. Paste a URL into the Data source URL input field

   • Data is fetched immediately and can be previewed

     • under Data preview

     • OR by clicking on "Show raw data"

4. Set the Read frequency how often the data should be fetched

   • OR set a Custom frequency in seconds

5. Enable the data source

   • This writes the data to Store

   • AND starts the reading interval

Edit the data source

1. Click on the Edit icon

Toggle data sources

1. To enable/disable a data source, click on the toggle

Read from data source

Manually trigger reading of the data.

Read now

1. Click the Read now icon to read from a specific data source

Read from all sources

1. Click Read from all sources to read from all enabled sources

Delete data source

1. Click the Delete icon to delete the data source

Use the data

Every time the data is read from an enabled data source, it is being stored in the Pixotope Store (Show file). The previously read data is being overwritten.

The data which is being read can be linked to any Pixotope Engine property.

Via Control panel

1. Open the control panel in which you want to use the data

2. Select the Data sources tab

3. Select the Data source you would like to use the data from

4. Search for the data to use

5. Link the data to control

Via Blueprints

1. Add a Read Data blueprint node

2. Select the data source

3. Extract the data you are interested in

JSON Path

To extract data from a data source, the JSON paths are structured as follows:

Supported sources