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What Is a Schedule?

 

A schedule is associated with a show and tells the Show Player the dates and times when the show should be started and shut down.

 

Shows are created and edited in the Light-O-Rama Control Panel's Create Shows section. When editing a show, a schedule is created by adding one or more schedule entries to it's Dates & Times section.

 

A schedule entry specifies 3 things:

•When the show will play. This consists of a start time and an end time of your choosing. The time range could be 5pm to 10pm; or it can cross midnight, starting at 8pm and ending at 2am for example.

•What days of the week the show will play.

•The date range for the show. In a new schedule entry, the start date will default to the current day and the end date will not be populated, meaning it will run on the specified days of the week from now to eternity.

 

When the Light-O-Rama Show Player looks at the list of active shows to decide whether a show should be played, there could be several schedule entries that apply to the current date and time. The Show Player resolves this by taking the schedule entry with the narrowest date range. A schedule entry for December 21st through 27th (7 days) would take precedence over one for December 1st through 31st (31 days). And a schedule entry for December 25th (1 day) would take precedence over both the 7-day and 31-day examples.

 

 

Example

 

Suppose you have a single show which you want to play every Friday and Saturday night in December, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM, except for Christmas Eve (when you want it to run from 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM) and Christmas Day (when you want it to run from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM).  This would require 4 schedule entries for the show:

 

 

 

Considerations

 

•In the Light-O-Rama Control Panel, the Play Shows section must be set to Show Player in order for scheduled shows to run.