Alcorn Mcbride Digital Video Machine 4, User Manual

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48 Scheduler
P: Repeat Period
The Repeat Period defines how long to wait. It is multiplied or indexed
according to the presence of a Repeat Set field. (See the Repeat Set and Repeat
Number sections for details)
Periods can be one of the following:
Sunrise, Sunset
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Minute
Hour
Day
Year
Boot
Notes: Month is not a valid period. If you want to make a monthly schedule,
use a combination of repeat number, period and set to do so. See the example
in the Repeat Number section for details. You can also specify
sunrise or
sunset . In order to take advantage of sunrise/sunset calculations in the DVM4,
you need to determine you longitude, latitude, and timezone. These can be
determined online by typing your
zipcode into many websites. Simply do a
search for longitude latitude zip code in your favorite search engine like
www.google.com to find them out. Then enter them into the Geographic
Settings in the DVM4’s INI file
dvm4.ini . The DVM4 calculates the
sunrise/sunset values and replaces the start time with them, after the first
execution has taken place.
Examples:
R:sunday
R:year
R:sunset
I: Repeat Set
Using the Repeat Set field changes the way Repeat Number and Repeat Period
operate. Together they act as an index into the Repeat Set. Please read the
Repeat Number section above, for a detailed explanation of the different
behaviors they take on when the Repeat Set field is present.
In order to create a monthly schedule, you can specify the Repeat Set as month .
In order to execute an event on