NikolajC;450330 Wrote: 
> Thanks for your answer. Maybe I can make a big macro that syncs all my 4
> players?

It looks like Eric Kolding's Synchronizer plugin
(http://www.koldware.com/SlimStuff/) might offer what you need for that.
In order to support the Controller, the plugin implements a few CLI
commands. Most interesting at first glance are "syncSyncToMe", which
would make all players in your setup sync with the player whose button
you pushed, and "syncSyncToSet" which appears to make your player sync
to a predefined sync group. "syncSyncToSet" takes one argument, which
appears to be the number of the sync group to join (where the groups are
sorted alphabetically by name and the first is number 0) -- I think it'd
be better for the argument to be the sync group name, but I suspect that
Eric didn't expect anyone else to use his CLI commands. I think a small
patch should allow Synchronizer to accept either name or number, so you
could set up a KidsPlay macro without fear of it breaking each time you
define a new group with the Synchronizer. Note: I have never used the
Synchronizer, I'm just going from a quick look at the source code for
version 0.9.4.

One remaining wrinkle that I would expect is controlling player power.
If you have all players set to sync power when synced with others, they
should all come to life after syncSyncToSet. Otherwise any player that's
turned off will remain silent, even though it's synced (synced just
means play the same thing IF you're turned on). I don't know if you can
add four "macGoesHere power 1" commands to the KidsPlay macro to turn
them all on. I expect you cannot -- KidsPlay executes commands in the
context of the player where the button was pressed, and I expect that
I'd need to modify KidsPlay to allow you to use commands that explicitly
identified specific players. Not a big deal, it's just not there yet.

Oh, and thanks for the nice words about SyncOptions. :-)


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