Power off MD at midnight? (timed events issue)

[nosebreaker]

I'd like to have all media directors shut off at midnight if they are still powered on (except the core of course).  I got lights to shut off but for some reason the MD's don't shut down with the timed event.  I can power them off from an orbiter just fine.  Any thoughts?

[hari]

iirc they take a different command to power down than on/off..

[seth]

I think this would be a great feature. Have them power off, and then at a specific time in the morning, power back up.
How green would that be?

I am going to check into this tonight, and see if I can come up with something as well. Please post back any findings here, during you experimentation. I will as well.

Regards,

Seth

[Dale_K]

I am actually doing this and have been for a while.  I'll post my timed event setup when I get home tonight.

[seth]

I look forward to your setup. This is something I have not been able to implement yet. I would like to use it. It would greatly reduce the monthly electric bill, and also possibly reduce some heat in certain cases.

Perhaps over the weekend I will give it a try.

Regards,

Seth

[bulek]

I am actually doing this and have been for a while.  I'll post my timed event setup when I get home tonight.

Please add content to Wiki and let us know about it....

Regards,

Bulek.

[donpaul]

You have to use the core general info plugin, and halt the device:


OR, if you use the suspend feature, then use the app server plugin to spawn the suspend script:


The use wake to turn it back on:

[tschak909]

Beautiful!

As an exercise, let's see if we can make a "Wizard" that you can select from the pulldown, to select MDs to turn on and off.

-Thom

[Marie.O]

And don't forget not to turn off if stuff is currently playing ...

[donpaul]

Beautiful!

As an exercise, let's see if we can make a "Wizard" that you can select from the pulldown, to select MDs to turn on and off.

-Thom

Now that would be cool!

[bulek]

And don't forget not to turn off if stuff is currently playing ...

Hi,

just curious, how can I determine if MD is currently playing anything and act upon that (or not act).... ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

[Marie.O]

just curious, how can I determine if MD is currently playing anything and act upon that (or not act).... ?

TCP Port 12000 on the MD contains timestamps with information about what is playing atm.

[tschak909]

That's the time code port for the Xine Player, and does not work in all cases.

-Thom

[bulek]

Hi,

I was more thinking about doing this under event handler or scenarios. For instance, don't make speech announcement if I'm playing video....

Possible ?

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

[donpaul]

Hi,

I was more thinking about doing this under event handler or scenarios. For instance, don't make speech announcement if I'm playing video....

Possible ?

Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible. There is no way to check if video is playing. Maybe that can be added, but the functionality isn't there right now.