Macro to execute 5 wakeups agents, not working

[Zuhair]

@alanchow

• I created 2 wake agents.
• I created a macro which is being triggered by Schedule It driver, when the driver execute the macro, the macro contains 5 commands:
  • Execute wakeup agent 1 on room1
  • Execute wakeup agent 1 on room2
  • Execute wakeup agent 2 on room3
  • Execute wakeup agent 2 on room4
  • Execute wakeup agent 2 on room5
• The macro is successfully being executed by the driver, but only the last 2 rooms is running, I tried shuffling the lines up/down but only execute the last 2 rooms.

 

I'm pretty sure that this the case of this is not Schedule It driver.

Can anyone please help?

This is wakeup agent 1

 

This is wakeup agent 2

 

 

This is the macro

 

[msgreenf]

@alanchow

• I created 2 wake agents.
• I created a macro which is being triggered by Schedule It driver, when the driver execute the macro, the macro contains 5 commands:
  • Execute wakeup agent 1 on room1
  • Execute wakeup agent 1 on room2
  • Execute wakeup agent 2 on room3
  • Execute wakeup agent 2 on room4
  • Execute wakeup agent 2 on room5
• The macro is successfully being executed by the driver, but only the last 2 rooms is running, I tried shuffling the lines up/down but only execute the last 2 rooms.

 
I'm pretty sure that this the case of this is not Schedule It driver.
Can anyone please help?
This is wakeup agent 1

 
This is wakeup agent 2
 

 
This is the macro
 

Do you have digital media in all rooms?

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[knowitall]

That not going to work. Each wake up is a separate instance and the EA5 likely only has its 2 analog outs connected. what you have above us telling the system to play 5 separate instances and it can only play two 

 

use a media scene

[South Africa C4 user]

A strange way to use the wake up agent.  As has already been said, use a media scene.  Alternatively, start playing in one zone and add zones to the session.

[Zuhair]

Thank you @knowitall / @South Africa C4 user for the reply, I forgot to mention that I'm Composer HE beginner and I'm facing difficulties with the lack of the advance documentation.

The reason I'm using wake up agent in this strange way I tried using media scene and added the 6 rooms (zones) each with it's volume preference but it played the media in all 6 zones at 100% volume.

Shall I create one media scene for every room (zone)? Or one media scene per room (zone)?

Should the script look like this?

• Activate  media scene 1
• Execute wake in room 1
• Activate  media scene 2
• Execute wake in room 2
• Activate  media scene 3
• Execute wake in room 3
• Activate  media scene 4
• Execute wake in room 4
• Activate  media scene 5
• Execute wake in room 5
• Activate  media scene 6
• Execute wake in room 6

Or

• Activate  media scene that include all rooms (zones)
• Execute wake in room 1
• Execute wake in room 2
• Execute wake in room 3
• Execute wake in room 4
• Execute wake in room 5
• Execute wake in room 6
• deactivate  media scene

What are other suggestions if I skip the wakeup agent?

 

[VINCELdUB]

Use a media scene or you can set the desired default volume in each room by going to the miscellaneous tab under room properties. There you can set the default volume for audio and video separately.

 

Programmatically, this can be done for each room by going to programming and on right side select the first room. Press right on the keyboard twice to reveal a sub menu. Select CURRENT_VOLUME

 

Then set the volume to desired level and drag green arrow over to centre.

 

 

 

Happy Automating!!

 

[Zuhair]

Many thanks @VINCELdUB 

whats is the best way to play the music in 5 zones when the macro is triggered?

[knowitall]

Media scene agent. Forget about the wake ups.  Delete them. 

Create media scene with all rooms/volumes you want. 

ill post screen shots later

[Zuhair]

Thank you @knowitall

After creating the media scenes, what is the action to play the music? (I'm using composer HE)

[knowitall]

Activate media scene

select xxxxx media in any room

start 10 min timer

 

when timer expires, deactivate media scene

[Zuhair]

I'm unable to find/access music media from actions, is there something to be done by the dealer?

 

 

[dcovach]

@Zuhair   https://www.control4.com/for/owners   Page 42 shows a photo of how to select media in a room.  Hopefully your dealer set up an audio pathway for any digital media in this list to each room.  

[VINCELdUB]

Don't select my music. Select the room, then select music.

 

 

 

Happy Automating!!

 

[knowitall]

Just found out my NAS is offline, so i get to mess with that now

But as pictured above goto the room you want to start in and select the track, then activate the media scene based off that room, created a 10 minute timer to dactivate the scene when complete.

 

If you really want to get complex, you can use the snapshot driver to revert everything back to what it was doing prior to the event.

(removed extra picture, which turned out to be the wrong picture, so i put the right one back in)

 

[Zuhair]

Hi @knowitall

I tried the above code, the music keeps looping

 

 

[South Africa C4 user]

Your code looks fine... I would change the delays to 500ms not 50ms. Too short a delay may result in commands not happening although I don't see why that would cause music to loop.

I assume the timer is 10 minutes and there is no event firing off on starting the timer and that you only run the macro once?

 

[Zuhair]

@South Africa C4 user

@knowitall

I changed the delays to 500ms.

Yes, the timer is 10min and there is no event firing off on starting the timer.

Yes running the macro once.

Still looping

 

 

[knowitall]

How are you executing "prayer"? 

[Zuhair]

The macro is being called by Schedule It driver.

The loop is happening when the macro is executed through the driver or through the execute button.

[South Africa C4 user]

Try executing the macro from Composer HE (button near the top right) and see if the looping still happens. If that works fine then the problem lies in how your are using the ScheduleIt driver.

[Zuhair]

It's also looping when executing it through the button.

I deleted the macro and rewrite it exactly the same. For an unknown reason, at least to me, it worked!

[knowitall]

you can add this line of code at the start as well just in case.  There is really no way to tell if it's on or off as far as i know. good luck!

 

[dcovach]

2 hours ago, Zuhair said:

It's also looping when executing it through the button.

I deleted the macro and rewrite it exactly the same. For an unknown reason, at least to me, it worked!

You have come a long way.  Good job