Congratulations on your purchase, Lorenzo. The P164 and the Magic RDS 4 currently form the most powerful solution on the market for the RDS text scheduling and text automation. Any comments and questions are very valuable for us. We continuously work on adding new features and publishing tutorials for their usage.
Now to your questions:
I have buy PIRA P164 RDS and i use Magic RDS 4 for the first time (i have used V3 in the past).
First question, what the differences between the internal scheduler and task scheduler ?
The existence of two schedulers is nothing new, they exist in our RDS systems since 2005. While the internal scheduler operates inside each box, the task scheduler is operated by the Magic RDS PC. Where permanent online connection exists to the encoder, the internal scheduler has usually no reason for being used.
Send the name of the radioshow in alternance with the Artist - Title file between and specific time
Example : MORNING RADIOSHOW > displayed every days of the week, interval 40 sec, in specific time 07h00-10h00
In the task scheduler i have this configuration :
-> Trigger :
event days:"12345" times:"07:00, 10:00"
timer interval:"40000" (i think this is milliseconds?)
-> Task :
send connection:"*" command:"TEXT=MORNING RADIOSHOW"
I'm fully aware that this topic is still not well covered by the documentation. It's due to the fact that many new features were added recently.
The reason (among others) why the code above does not work correctly for you is that the TEXT is already controlled by the 'now playing' information via the External text source. Correct solution is to add your scheduled messages to the loop in the External text Output.
The loop may contain up to 32 different sources (broadcast automation, websites, text files etc). For each source in the loop you may define the time interval (called 'Go to next after').
The trick is that you create a new Source whose type is 'Internal channel'. Then you can schedule its text content. The scheduled text will perfectly fit into existing loop of other text messages. See the pictures attached. In specific times, you may disable/enable the source as well.
How to use Traffic or News program ? When the news is played, send command to rds.
There is plenty information about using of the Text Conditions tool. This tool can be used the same way like in the old version 3, except for the command syntax which is now extended.
Especially the examples for the TA and PTY News are listed in the Help (extsrc.pdf). Just click on the Help button and scroll down to the Text Conditions section of examples.
