Calendar Problems

[NitrofishRadio]

I am trying to use the sc_trans_playlist.conf so that I can fire jingles at specified times, but the problem is that the jingles never fire. So I ran the debug and this output is below. Below that is the pl_calendar.xml. Can someone please help me work this out?

code:


2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] timeSlice

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=1 is not active. running activation check.

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=1 start date range is ok

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=1 end date range is ok

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=1 is a repeating event

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=1 is not active. Checking for removal

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=2 is not active. running activation check.

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=2 start date range is ok

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=2 end date range is ok

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=2 is a repeating event

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=2 repeating event day of week matches

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=2 repeating event not yet run today

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=2 repeating event activating.

2012-05-06 11:36:24	I	msg:[PLAYLISTMGR] Playlist load from file playlists/main.lst

2012-05-06 11:36:24	I	msg:[PLAYLISTMGR] Loading playlist from cache

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=3 is not active. running activation check.

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=3 start date range is ok

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=3 end date range is ok

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=3 is a time periodic event

2012-05-06 11:36:24	D	msg:[CALENDARMGR] id=3 time periodic event day of week matches

PL_CALENDAR.XML

code:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<eventlist>



  <!-- if more playlists are required in the system then we just add in

       more event blocks making sure to have entered a 'playlistfilename'

       and 'playlistfilepath' entry into the sc_trans configuration file -->



  <!-- this should activate the specified playlist at 18:00:00 (based on

       the time of the machine sc_trans is running on) and keep playing

       until 06:00:00 (as specified by the duration field from 18:00:00

       and is applied only to weekdays



       remember: playlist events are queued up so the transition is not

                 likely to happen until the currently playing file ends -->

  <event type="playlist">

    <playlist loopatend="1" shuffle="1" priority="1" >main</playlist>

    <calendar starttime="18:00:00" duration="12:00:00" repeat="62" />

  </event>



  <!-- this should activate the specified playlist at 06:00:00 (based on

       the time of the machine sc_trans is running on) and keep playing

       it over the weekend until 06:00:00 on monday morning instead of the

       main playlist as specified by 'playlistfile' in sc_trans_basic.conf



       remember: playlist events are queued up so the transition is not

                 likely to happen until the currently playing file ends -->

  <event type="playlist">

    <playlist loopatend="1" shuffle="1" priority="1" >main</playlist>

    <calendar starttime="06:00:00" duration="48:00:00" repeat="65" />

  </event>



  <!-- here we setup time periodic events which allow us to queue a jingle

       type event to play approximately at 20 and 40 minutes past the hour



       remember: playlist events are queued up so the transition is not

                 likely to happen until the currently playing file ends -->

  <event type="playlist">

    <playlist loopatend="0" shuffle="1" priority="2" >jingles</playlist>

    <calendar starttime="00:00:00" timeoffset="00:20:00" repeat="128" />

  </event>



  <event type="playlist">

    <playlist loopatend="0" shuffle="1" priority="2" >jingles</playlist>

    <calendar starttime="00:00:00" timeoffset="00:40:00" repeat="128" />

  </event>

[jaromanda]

starttime needs to be 01:00:00 ... meaning the event is repeated every hour

I also thought playlist names should be unique ... though, I can't find any documentation to either support no refute this

[NitrofishRadio]

Thanks for the quick response... That worked to make the file play at the specified times, but I thought the start time was 00:00:00 Midnight. then continue to repeat?

[jaromanda]

reading the "manual", it says, in the case of periodic repeat, starttime is the period, offset is the offset from midnight of the first trigger