I was aware that it takes the current time.... However, the current time should have been valid in the log, apparently it only checks when it is loaded? it shows normal in rdlibrary... anyway I think It's all sorted out now, user misunderstanding.
thanks, sometimes just typing out the problem leads to the solution... Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM On 3/4/2013 4:54 PM, waynemerricks wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick heads up. Whenever you look at any cart it tells you > whether it is valid or not based on the current system time of the PC > you're using. > > This has given me user questions like: > > "I imported the Quiz for April but when I check the April logs its all > red" > > Or > > "I set this advert to play between 1pm and 2pm but the cart is showing > the one that should play now" > > We have further problems in our building as the play out is set to IST > where as the work stations are all GMT. > > Finally a quick warning about auto refresh, on an older version of Riv > (I think v 2.0.something) auto refresh caused the log to append from the > start underneath whatever was currently playing. > > It might be something I did wrong but my solution was to turn off auto > refresh and make a macro that called a custom reload log script. This > also had issues in the older version as it stopped the currently playing > item by doing a Play Next once it was loaded. So I patched the files to > change it to a make next instead. > > There was discussion on this script/macro about 2 weeks ago. > > The older version thing has probably changed by now but test auto > refresh anyway before you go into production. > > Regards, > > Wayne > > On 2013-03-04 20:56, Nathan Steele wrote: >> I have set a program to expire tonight and instructed the presenter >> to >> let the "invalid cart" play anyway to see what happens. They had been >> dumping them when they see invalid cart. I suspect that if it tries >> to >> play what it thhought was an invalid cart at midnight when it loaded, >> but it now has a valid cut (put in by rdcatch after midnight) that it >> will play the cut. Am I thinking wrong here? My reasoning is that >> they >> show up invalid in the log on monday but I check in RDlibrary and it >> says it played. I also just ran a playout report and it says that >> programs before the first airshift played. >> >> So I think we have an operator problem not a software problem. >> >> Would be nice if someone could tell me wether auto refresh log >> setting >> would detect the valid cuts and not have the carts show as invalid, >> which freaks the presenters out. Apparently when an invalid cart with >> a >> timed start(Make Next) plays it will cut of the song thats playing at >> the time it is scheduled, ignoring the make next instruction. I heard >> it >> do this this morning because we do have one truly invalid cart....Is >> that a bug? >> >> Nathaniel C. Steele >> Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director >> WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM >> > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
