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Posted by: Jan
« on: Yesterday at 08:47:21 am »

I'm afraid that intervals under ~15 seconds are too short for the RDS texts. It means the behavior may be undefined especially in areas where the reception is not perfect.

The Magic RDS 4 currently incorporates three parameters for the text sources sequence control. These are:

  • Go to next after
  • Keep in cache for
  • Expires after

The first parameter defines fixed rhytm of the sources in the sequence. While a particular source is active, it continues watching for the text changes and the text is updated immediately.

The next two parameters define exclusions from the above behavior:

Keep in cache for [seconds] - The source is not watched for potential text change. Instead of this, a cached text is used until the cache period elapses. This can be used for several purposes, incl. avoiding text update just a few moments before going to next source in the sequence.

Expires after [seconds] - After elapsing the period specified, the source is temporarily removed from the sequence until the source text changes.


Posted by: livewireaus
« on: December 29, 2024, 01:22:45 am »

Hi Jan

Currently you can define a duration before moving on to the next item via the "Go to next after [seconds]" option.

Could we have a Loop option?

Set Loop Wait Duration [seconds]
Set Loop Count Total [Number]

Setting these would void the "Go to next after [seconds]" option. (Greyed out when a loop is defined?)

Example:

Set Loop Wait Duration [seconds]  5
Set Loop Count Total [Number]     6
"Go to next after [seconds]" option (greyed out or ignored)

This function would be executed: wait 5 seconds, then restart, incrementing the count until the counter defined is reached.

We have a playout system delivering text info on what is playing.  Ideally, we want to add other items to the RDS stream (time, weather, news, traffic).  Having a defined loop break option would allow this to happen with some flexibility on timing.

I hope that makes sense!

Regards

Ross