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Hardware => Lynx EtherDongle => Lynx Conductor => Topic started by: rdebolt on November 09, 2012, 12:18:35 am

Title: Starting Schedule
Post by: rdebolt on November 09, 2012, 12:18:35 am
Is there a way to get the scheduled show to run if you insert your CF card after the scheduled start time has past? Hitting the play for me just runs the show 1 time through.
Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: rrowan on November 09, 2012, 12:38:34 am
Sorry no it won't. The conductor won't start a show from anywhere but the beginning of its scheduled time.

Rick R.
Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: rdebolt on November 09, 2012, 09:29:31 am
That's what I was finding. Maybe next release, but this Conductor is fricking AWESOME!!!!!  <res.
Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: RJ on November 11, 2012, 12:03:18 pm
This will always be the case.

This was thought long and hard about and the issue comes down to, If you start a show on other than the beginning then there is no way to know if I am going to run into the next show.

This is not a invite to disagree with me, let me say before it starts, this is the way it works and will continue to work.

RJ
Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: pokey on November 11, 2012, 05:10:02 pm

Understand the motivation for wanting to avoid conflicts with the schedule, but for testing, it sure would be great for the conductor to play a default show.  I seem to recall in a video -- RJ plugged the conductor in and it magically just started playing a show...that would be great while I'm bashing stuff together.

If it can't happen, so be it, but would be nice for the testing/planning/setup stages.
Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: keitha43 on November 11, 2012, 05:26:02 pm
I think you may be remembering him unplugging a slave until it timed out and plugging it back in to sync it up with the conductor.

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Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: einstein2883 on November 12, 2012, 07:01:28 pm
So just to be clear.  If my show runs from 6-10pm and at 8pm I stop the show to update a sequence.  I have no way of making the conductor restart the show and have it continue till 10pm?  If this is how it works that’s fine, I just want to know so I don’t stop it when I shouldn’t. Thanks RJ for your hard work.
Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: dcwehw99 on November 12, 2012, 07:27:55 pm
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So just to be clear.  If my show runs from 6-10pm and at 8pm I stop the show to update a sequence.  I have no way of making the conductor restart the show and have it continue till 10pm?  If this is how it works that’s fine, I just want to know so I don’t stop it when I shouldn’t. Thanks RJ for your hard work.

You could manually start the show from the control panel and then manually stop it at 10 PM.  Short of creating a new schedule to start a few minutes after updating your sequence and then scheduling it to run until 10 PM, that's it.

Denny
Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: dandyman on November 15, 2012, 10:09:51 am
Also, another thing to consider is that if you lose power to the EtD+Conductor during the time that the show is running, the show will not re-start when the power is restored... just something to consider if you plan on powering from the same source as your lights (during snowmelt/rain, sometimes one or more of my GFCIs may trip)...

Dan
Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: rrowan on November 15, 2012, 10:12:13 am
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Also, another thing to consider is that if you lose power to the EtD+Conductor during the time that the show is running, the show will not re-start when the power is restored... just something to consider if you plan on powering from the same source as your lights (during snowmelt/rain, sometimes one or more of my GFCIs may trip)...

Dan

I guess if you experience power problems then a small UPS battery back up might be a good idea for the EDC only.

Rick R.
Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: dpitts on November 19, 2012, 09:49:54 pm
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So just to be clear.  If my show runs from 6-10pm and at 8pm I stop the show to update a sequence.  I have no way of making the conductor restart the show and have it continue till 10pm?  If this is how it works that’s fine, I just want to know so I don’t stop it when I shouldn’t. Thanks RJ for your hard work.

You could manually start the show from the control panel and then manually stop it at 10 PM.  Short of creating a new schedule to start a few minutes after updating your sequence and then scheduling it to run until 10 PM, that's it.

Denny

I think when you manually start it it only runs one time through. So you have to continue clicking the start button.
Title: Re: Starting Schedule
Post by: rdebolt on November 19, 2012, 10:15:53 pm
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I think when you manually start it it only runs one time through. So you have to continue clicking the start button.

That is correct.