You can create panels that trigger things at specific times. Here is a panel that runs a task at a specific time later in the day:
<abs contexttype="opengear" gridsize="20" id="_top" keepalive="false" style="">
<meta>
<params>
<param access="1" maxlength="0" name="delay (seconds)" oid="delay" type="STRING" value="15:08:00" widget="time-picker"/>
</params>
</meta>
<label height="60" left="40" name="Running Tasks at Specific Times" style="txt-align:west;size:Bigger;" top="40" width="620"/>
<label height="20" left="40" name="You can code a task to run at a specific time. See the code in the button for an example." style="txt-align:west;" top="100" width="1100"/>
<table height="40" left="40" oid="delay" top="160" width="200">
<tr>
<label anchor="east" fill="none" insets="0,0,0,5" name="Run task at time:" weightx="0.0"/>
<param anchor="west" expand="true" fill="both" oid="delay" showlabel="false" weightx="1.0" weighty="1.0"/>
</tr>
</table>
<button buttontype="push" height="40" left="40" name="Run Task" top="200" width="200">
<task tasktype="ogscript">function runTask() {
var date = new Date();
ogscript.rename("message", "task triggered on " + date);
}
var date = new Date();
var time = params.getValue("delay",0);
var timeArray = time.split(":");
date.setSeconds(timeArray[2]);
date.setMinutes(timeArray[1]);
date.setHours(timeArray[0]);
var now = new Date();
var delay = date.getTime()- now.getTime();
if (delay < 0) {
ogscript.rename("message", date + " is in the past");
} else {
ogscript.rename("message", "running on " + date)
ogscript.asyncExec(runTask, delay);
}</task>
</button>
<label height="40" id="message" left="260" name="message" style="txt-align:west;bg#dark;" top="160" width="440"/>
<label height="40" left="260" name="This panel only runs tasks that are later today. It could be enhanced to run tasks at a later date too." style="txt-align:west;" top="200" width="620"/>
</abs>
You could adapt it to run things every day if needed. Take a look and let me know if you have any questions.
Ross also sells a product called PowerPlay to schedule sending messages to DashBoard panels (and other devices).
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Ben Gatien
Ross Video
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-21-2022 14:47
From: Bobby P
Subject: scheduling a custom control to run at a certain time using Dashboard
Hello,
we are using QuickTurn to do archival recordings of student-run newscasts. I've created custom controls using switcher events to enable & disable QuickTurn. Would there be a way to create a schedule that activates the 2 customs?
For example, the show begins at 6:00p... set through dashboard, at 5:59p, the custom that enables QuickTurn is activated... later at 6:30p when the show ends, again through dashboard, at 6:31p, the custom to disable QuickTurn is activated.
Thanks so much!
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Bobby P
Supervisor
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