Please Help..... Showing artist/title and weather in a loop (P164)

[coremediafl]

All was well and it showed the song titles and artist with no issues. Then I tried to add where it would change to the weather for a few seconds every 5 minutes. It shows that it's working I guess in RDS, but in vehicles, The weather stays on for long periods of time, then a short burst of the title/artist and then a blank screen for awhile on some vehicles and rows of strange characters on others. The top 8 character screen works fine. I have something set wrong. I can't even get back to the song/artist working on a regular basis. I have attached screen shots of the current settings.

[Jan]

In your Source 1 (CurrentSong.txt) the Expires After parameter is set to 10. That means "show the song only for 10 seconds, then disappear until the song name changes".

Suggested first aid solution: set to defaults:
Go to next after: 60
Keep in cache for: 0
Expires after: -1

For best result, consider following:
for the song, set Go to next after to 300 seconds, for the weather, set the Go to next after to 20 seconds
for the song, set the Expires after to 600 seconds (or whatever you want to prevent showing the song if the broadcast automation stops playing)
update the Magic RDS 4 to the most recent version
enable the RT+ for all the Sources; for the song, enable the item toggle ant item running control
enable the Output's transition optimizer (~15 seconds)
in the P164, enable the Dynamic group sequence and Default Radiotext

The P164 supports remote monitoring of the output data, just click on the RDS Spy button to see the effect of current settings. It usually tells you more than your car radio.