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Game Console Billing
(XBox, Nintendo, Sony PlayStation)
TrueCafe supports billing of game consoles such as XBox, Nintendo, Sony PlayStation, etc.
The idea is to use X10 power devices such as Insteon or Easy PC Control. You install and connect such devices to your power line. Then you plug in your game console monitors to the X10 modules. You can turn on/off any X10 module from your server, which means a game console monitor turns on when a customer session is started and turns off when the session is stopped.
You can read more on X10 here:
1. Install X10 modules
Setup X10 system in your cafe, plug in your game consoles monitors. Install X10 drivers on the server computer. Make sure that you can turn on/off any X10 (which means a console monitor) from the server.
2. Add game consoles to TrueCafe
Open TrueCafe main menu > Setup > Terminals. Add your game consoles to the list specifying X10 devices addresses (A1, A2, etc.) in the IP address field:
3. Specify turn on/off commands
Open TrueCafe main menu > Tools > Options > Script tab. Specify turn on/off scripts:
"C:\Program Files\AHSDK\bin\ahcmd.exe" sendrf terminal_ip_address on
"C:\Program Files\AHSDK\bin\ahcmd.exe" sendrf terminal_ip_address off
How this works
When you start a customer session on a game console icon on the server, TrueCafe replaces the terminal_ip_address command param with your X10 device address and runs e.g. the following command:
"C:\Program Files\AHSDK\bin\ahcmd.exe" sendrf A1 on
...which turns on the corresponding game console monitor.
Similarly, when you stop a session, the "turn off" command is executed.
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