This is a preview version of the DisplayLink DL-7450 Software Development Kit Documentation. The functionality that is described and made available in this version is subject to addition, removal or change without warning.

class DockControl – Manage dock settings

The DockControl class provides DL-7450 management services to applications.

Constructors

class dock.DockControl

Construct a DockControl object.

Coming soon

In later releases, the DockControl interface will give the application developer more control of the dock including:

• set the attached screens to different resolutions.

• show different content on different attached monitors.

• set WiFi credentials such as SSID and password.

Methods

DockControl.set_timezone(tz)

Set the timezone of the DL-7450 device. The parameter is a string which can be any of the accepted abbreviations from the Time Zone Database. For example:

from dock import DockControl
control = DockControl()
control.set_timezone("PST8PDT")

If an attempt is made to set a timezone that does not exist a ValueError exception is raised. For an invalid type a TypeError is raised.

Coming soon

In this preview a limited subset of the IANA timezones are supported.

Zone Code	Notes
CET	Central European Time
CST6CDT	USA Central Standard Time with daylight saving
EET	Eastern European Time with daylight saving
EST	Eastern Standard Time
GB	UK/Eire with daylight saving
GMT	UK/Eire standard time
HST	Hawaii–Aleutian time
Hongkong
Israel
Japan
MET	Same as CET
MST	A zone that observes MST without daylight saving such as Arizona
MST7MDT	Mountain Standard Time with daylight saving
NZ
PRC	China
PST8PDT	Pacific Standard Time with daylight saving
ROC	Taipei
ROK	Republic of Korea
Singapore
UCT	Universal Coordinated Time
UTC	Universal Coordinated Time
W-SU	Moscow
WET	West European Time