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How to i cycle through all pages with one button?
At the moment i have 4 pages

The page conditions are setup in the display setup, see below:



If you have 4 pages set this as the number of pages. Change the "Display Page Up Button" to what ever switch you are using for your page switch. The "Display Page" channel will increment from 0 to 3 every time you press the button.

You then use the "Display Page" channel as the condition for your pages in DC.

In DC what condions do you use? Page Number or a Constant? Cant seem to figure it out, also makes it harder that the Page1 conditions can't be changed.

Thanks

Below is a screenshot from the help that explains how the "Page Number" condition works.

You don't have to do it that way, you could simply make the display page equal a constant value, the "page number" feature just allows you to move your pages around without having to redo all of your conditions.

Page 0 has to have no condition so that something is displayed by default if your conditions aren't met. So for example lets say you were able to put a condition on page 0 and you had the following:

Page 0 - Display Page == 0,
Page 1 - Display Page == 1,
Page 2 - Display Page == 2.

If for any reason the "Display Page" channel had a value of 3 what would the Dash display? None of the conditions are met so it would have to be just blank.

This is why the first page has no condition, it is always displayed when none of the other page conditions are met.

I like to setup a "splash screen" as the default page. I arrange for this page to be displayed when the dash starts up (for the first 10 seconds), by having the next page use the following condition:

Display Page == 0
And
Device Up Time [s] > 10 [s]

If I every get the Display Page Counter wrong, then the splash screen will be displayed.

I did this before the "Page Number" value was available -- I would probably figure out how to use that now as this required me to have all the pages off by 1 (page 1 was really page 0, page 2 was really page 1, etc).

Thanks David
I sorted it out by using a counter in pdm manager

I am not using display creator but did something similar in my setup. There are generally two drivers in my car and we use the first two default pages, one each with the only difference (For now) being the driver name used as the page label. I have a counter in the PDM which defaults to 0 on power up and also triggers another condition which I use to trigger an alarm on the dash displaying the text "Driver?"

A keypad button is used to increment the counter 0-1-2-0. The first push cancels the "Driver?" alarm and after that it increments the counter. The driver alarm is also reset under a couple of other conditions (Every time the car stops moving for a set period for one) so if we come in and do a driver change it alarms again to remind you to select the right page. Finally we log the page number counter input.

Basically all of this is to give us a visible tag of who was behind the wheel in the data log so that the right driver gets the bragging rights at the end of the day.

Nice work bluester!