Time Announcement

[hkypuk6]

If I play the "Timed Announcement" lets say at 8:59:57, the Timed Announcement say's "it's 8:59".  I would like it to round up and say "it's 9:00".  If it plays at 8:29:55, it would be nice if the Timed Announcement would say "It's 8:30".

I realize that the Timed Announce feature uses the computers time, so I'm not sure if this is even possible.  I'm personally mainly concerned with the Top and Bottom of the hour.  The only thing that I have thought about doing is to play with the file names & Recordings for the :59 and :29 so that they say what I want the time announce to say.  Any Thoughts?

 

[djsoft]

The easiest solution would be to start events at 9:00:00 and other exact times. Eg. move all scheduled programs 3 seconds ahead.

Another solution is to use ?hh macro in the scheduler (more info about this: http://manual.djsoft.net/radioboss/en/scheduler_options.htm)

An example. You set the filename: ?hh-00.mp3, when event is launched at 8:59:57, it will change "?hh" to the current hour (08) and play the 08-00.mp3 file. In your case, 08-00.mp3 should say "it's nine o'clock" because it's actually 08:59.

 

[hkypuk6]

Thanks.  I'll give your "another solution" a try.  That one sounds like it will work for me.  Unfortunately the "easiest solution" is not an option for me.  I'm joining a network right at the top of the hour.

 

[djsolar]

I was wondering if the time announcement suggested by djSoft worked for your station. I have been trying this technique for a few days and I can't  get the "?hh" action to find playlist I want it to execute.

Usually I would have the scheduler find the playlist using the browse feature. But with this command I'm missing something.

Someone, please chime in. I would love to use this feature.

 

[djsoft]

Yes, you need a full path and put ?hh or other macro in the appropriate place.

That's easy: click "..." to select one of the playlists. Let's say you got something like C:\MyPlaylists\00-15.m3u8, but instead of this playlist you want to run 01-15.m3u8, 12-15.m3u8, etc, depending on current hour. To achieve this, filename has to be changed to:
C:\MyPlaylists\?hh-15.m3u8

 

[djsolar]

Thank you djSoft.. I was stripping levels of brain matter trying to figure it out. Works perfectly.