Object to say text in local chat 3500M away.

New SL sport: competitive scripting

LOL..... The forum doesn't seem to work well as a chat room, but this is fun.

yeah there's actually an idea for that floating around, thanks to two other people's ideas that I built on... I haven't followed through on it though... there's a work up of the idea on my wiki user page

The way I'd see it would be to make it a spectator sport. Hold a live in-world event where the ultimate aim is to have the contest target prim say "And the winner is..." by being the first to send it the correct soultion to a scripting problem. But thinking up a problem that'd be interesting (hopefully requiring some entertaining and spectacular but quantifiable effects) and unspoofable would probably be the real challenge.

ETA: scripts would have to be made available for testing for illegal hacks and exploits.

Is there some reason why the object on the ground can't directly modify the media url?

The unit on the ground could do its llRegionSay on the public chat channel, but the OP specifically said that he didn't want to spam everyone on the sim. Since the video unit has to hear the command on public chat, the only option left if you use this "TV remote" analogy is to broadcast at ground level on a private channel and then echo it back in chat in the skybox.

As you're suggesting, though, you might get to the same place by changing the parcel media parameters directly. I'm assuming that either (1) the video unit itself is a commercial one that might get confused if you changed its URL that way -- OK, that's a stretch -- or (2) the video unit isn't necessarily on the same parcel as the people on the ground.

my guess was OP wanted to change it from 2 locations far apart.... or maybe they just wanted to put it out of the way so it wasn't being triggered needlessly, or by others nearby with similar devices.

realistically if you have script access, it's be easier to mod the media changer for the second case... to only listen on channel 3

@Rolig:
You can't watch media from another parcel....

@Void:
it's be easier? lol, there goes your genius status I gave you the other day (/me feeling less like a door knob today )

hehe typos... gotta love em (and seriously, I'm not a genius, no matter what those tests say)...

The @home TV company has a server that takes a You Tube video and converts it into a quicktime video that can be viewed in SL. I have no idea how to make that work without using their TV. The TV itself is no copy and I'd like to keep it in the sky box. The screen I have on the ground is not scripted. It just has the correct texture on it so it shows whatever media is being played.

The OP never said anything about watching TV on the ground. All he said was that he wanted to be able to send commands to the unit in the skybox from the ground. I have no idea why, but that's the way the challenge was presented. Since that's the case, it's logical to assume that he wants his remote to work from anywhere in the sim, whether he's in the parcel with the skybox or not.

ETA: OK, so NOW he adds that extra bit of information. I dunno, then. Resetting the parcel media ought to work just fine.

I have built a drive-in movie theater on the ground. I want to be able to watch You Tube movies with my friends. The screen on the ground is like 40 meters wide and 20 meters high. It has the correct texture on it (broken up into 10 meter sections and offset so it looks like one big picture) but no scripts. The TV in the sky box is scripted to facilitate importing You Tube videos into SL. As far as I know you can not just paste a You Tube URL into the parcel media tab and have it play. That's why people buy You Tube compatible TVs.

Oh, OK. That makes sense, then. There are ways around that. Obviously the guys you bought the unit from did it, and methods have been discussed in this forum before. Still, since you already have the unit your simple approach seems smart. Good luck.