Send "/thump" at 5 sec intervals to keep alive

qController.Standard/Classes/Communication/IPHelper.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+using System;
+using System.Net;
+
+namespace qController
+{
+    public class IPHelper
+    {
+        public IPHelper()
+        {
+        }
+
+        public static bool IsValidAddress(string ipString){
+            if ((ipString.Split('.').Length - 1) != 3) return false;
+            IPAddress address;
+            return IPAddress.TryParse(ipString, out address);
+        }
+    }
+}

qController.Standard/Classes/Communication/QParser.cs

@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ namespace qController
                     ParseWorkspaceInfo(msg);
                 else if (msg.Address.Contains("playbackPosition"))
                     ParsePositionUpdateInfo(msg);
+                else if (msg.Address.Contains("thump"))
+                    Console.WriteLine("Heartbeat Received");
                 else
                 {
                     Console.WriteLine("Unknown message type");

qController.Standard/Classes/Communication/QUpdater.cs

@@ -23,21 +23,15 @@ namespace qController
         public void UpdateLoop()
         {
             active = true;
-            Device.StartTimer(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.01), () => {
-                UpdateSelected();
-                UpdateLevels();
+            Device.StartTimer(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5.0), () => {
+                SendThump();
                 return active;
             });
         }
 
-        public void UpdateSelected()
+        public void SendThump()
         {
-            string valuesForKeys = "[\"displayName\",\"number\",\"type\",\"isBroken\",\"isLoaded\",\"isPaused\",\"isRunning\",\"preWait\",\"duration\",\"postWait\",\"translationX\",\"translationY\",\"opacity\",\"scaleX\",\"scaleY\",\"uniqueID\",\"flagged\",\"listName\",\"colorName\",\"name\",\"armed\"]";
-            //qController.qClient.sendAndReceiveStringArgs("/cue/selected/valuesForKeys", valuesForKeys);
-        }
-        public void UpdateLevels()
-        {
-            //qController.qClient.sendAndReceiveString("/cue/selected/levels");
+            qController.qClient.sendStringUDP("/thump");
         }
 
         public void Kill(){