help with scheduler

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   after getting over the install problems with with error codes l am now faced with more issues  after deciding to have a play with schedular. The program doesn't do anything after it loads up.  l see a calender in front of me, l go file/ new schedule and see day of week settings stop and start times etc, when l input the times in, the dates, files to be played and so on , i then hit the bottom add button,  click on start scheddular and thats it, nothing else happens, nothing appears in the calender and nothing plays, what am l doing wrong ?. At this point l am not connected to any controller but have set up the comm ports in the past. any one got any ideas or am l just having a blond moment and doing  or not doing something  stupid.

bigvic

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bigvic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Location: australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 18	Quote Reply Topic: help with scheduler Posted: 11 Sep 2008 at 3:34am
	after getting over the install problems with with error codes l am now faced with more issues after deciding to have a play with schedular. The program doesn't do anything after it loads up. l see a calender in front of me, l go file/ new schedule and see day of week settings stop and start times etc, when l input the times in, the dates, files to be played and so on , i then hit the bottom add button, click on start scheddular and thats it, nothing else happens, nothing appears in the calender and nothing plays, what am l doing wrong ?. At this point l am not connected to any controller but have set up the comm ports in the past. any one got any ideas or am l just having a blond moment and doing or not doing something stupid. bigvic

RandyA Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Location: Lockport Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2008 at 8:48am
	BigVic, I just tried the scheduler and captures the steps that I did. I will try to attach some images. and here is what showed up & ran. Hope this helps you out. Randy

Slinkard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Location: El Cajon CA Online Status: Offline Posts: 243	Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2008 at 11:41am
	Just wanted to jump in here and do a little explanation on some scheduler items. prolly not the right place but these are some cool functions that I found last year. When you have your scheduled show completed and started, at the scheduled time (Say 6pm) if you have something in the top Run once field it will kick off the show. Once it completes the scheduler then continues in to the loop field. These sequences will play in a loop back mode until the end time is met. So if your loop song starts at 10:59 and you want your show to end at 11pm that song will continue to play until it completes. so say you had a 4 minute song the loop will play until 11:03. Next it moves to the bottom Run Once field and starts that sequence. So the net net here is even though you have your show scheduled to end at 11pm it wont just terminate at 11pm! it will wrap up the show at that time! Also things that old spectrum users are going to love!!!!! There is a at most 3 second delay in between songs! thats right no killer ramp up on your RAM either and the songs just run perfectly. Last year I left for 5 days to northern CA. I had just set up Aurora, and scheduled a show. I locked my computer and took off to norcal. I got back at around 8:30pm I turned my radio to 96.1 at the buttom of the hill and to my pure shock and amazement it was playing!!! Even better when i got with in line of sight to my display, the lights were still working! OMG you couldn't have done that with Spectrum no way no how. I have been completely happy with them since the day one Slink
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LightChristmas Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Equality, IL Online Status: Offline Posts: 993	Quote Reply Posted: 12 Sep 2008 at 12:03pm
	Just a bit of history here. Michael saved our collective bacon the first year Spectrum came out by cobbling up a scheduler that worked. Have used the LightsOnLogan Player every season until Aurora came out.


bigvic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Location: australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 18	Quote Reply Posted: 13 Sep 2008 at 3:08am
	thanks for your replies, but l have done exactly what randy did and still no go, nothing just happens and l do not get anything appearing in the calender. I get the same results on 3 computers. heeeeeeeeeeelp bigvic

bigvic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Location: australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 18	Quote Reply Posted: 17 Sep 2008 at 7:34am
	CAN anyone tell me were l can get an earlier version of schedular seeing asd my current version does not work bigvic

JonB256 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Location: Granbury, TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 130	Quote Reply Posted: 17 Sep 2008 at 8:12am
	Bigvic, when you create a schedule item by clicking on a calendar square, are you changing the date at the top? I noticed that, just because I clicked on September 8, 2008, it didn't automatically create an entry for September 8, 2008. Perhaps it is saving your entry on a calendar page that isn't visible? (say, October 9, 2007). Since you are on the wrong side of the equator , anything is possible. Another thought - and perhaps the Aurora programmers can answer this one - you may not have the correct font installed to display on the calendar. If they were very specific in their program about font name and not just font family, it could appear blank. Edited by JonB256 - 17 Sep 2008 at 8:15am
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bigvic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Location: australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 18	Quote Reply Posted: 23 Sep 2008 at 5:15am
	jon l have had some progress with schedular , l put in to start a sequence on dec 1 to dec 31 and got an input on the calender for dec 12 ,28, 29, 30 and 31st and also jan 12 feb 12th and march 6th, any ideas on this one, because l am just about to go back to spectrum, at least their stuff worked . bigvic

JonB256 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Location: Granbury, TX Online Status: Offline Posts: 130	Quote Reply Posted: 23 Sep 2008 at 5:43am
	bigvic, those details don't really help me, but it should mean something to the programmers. What format do you have your date set for in Windows? Do you have MM/DD/YY or DD/MM/YY It may make a difference. In the Control Panel, Regional and Language Options, I am set for "English (United States)" If you are set for "English (Australia)" it may make difference.
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bigvic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Location: australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 18	Quote Reply Posted: 23 Sep 2008 at 6:12am
	jon good to talk tou live , what time is it there. anyway l am set dd/mm/yy and l was set to american english , l'll tryto test it with australian english. I have also talked to Ralph here in melbourne , here is going to download and try it. The strange thing about my problem is that it has happened on 3 different computers, 2 running vista and one running xp, maybe l need to talk to the programmers. regards bigvic