Alcorn Mcbride Digital Video Machine 4, User Manual

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Scheduler 49
Sets can be one of the following:
Month
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October,
November, and December
Examples:
R:5 P:day S:month ;repeat 5
th
day of every month
R:2 P:monday S:month ;repeat 2
nd
Monday of every month
R:4 P:Thursday S:November ;repeat 4
th
Thursday in November
Restrictions
Since the Scheduler is very flexible, it is easier to explain what you cannot do,
than to explain what you can.
1. When using BOOT as the Repeat Period, the Repeat Number can only be
one. The unit does not keep track of the number of times it has rebooted.
You can put in other numbers, but it will ignore them.
2. Whatever combination you choose between Repeat Number and Repeat
Period should not multiply out to be greater than a century. For example,
don’t repeat an event every 102 years.
3. One event executes per minute. If you want more and you haven’t already
purchased a small show controller, like the InterActivator, then get on of
these. It can increase the amount of events you can generate from 1per
minute to 30 per second * 60 seconds per minute = 1800 events per minute!
Comments & Whitespace
Comments are prefixed with a semicolon (;). Anything found after a
semicolon is ignored by the scheduler. You can place a comment on its own
line, if you like. You can use spaces or tabs to organize your schedule. They
both are ignored.
Examples:
;This is a comment on its own line
T:1:00 D:1-1-01 E:SetVarEQ 1:2 2: 33 ;this is a comment too