Announcement not working as programmed

[Tokead]

I set up a schedule and announcement, so my kids had a couple of minutes warning to get out of the house to get the bus. It's meant to make the announcement several times, but I was only getting three times. Lately, it's only making it once. Any ideas what's up?

Toke

 

 

[Matt Lowe]

need to put this on a timer and have a variable count and need at least 30 seconds between each announcement. 

 

should go something like this

schedule executes, you can set this m-f or add variables for summer time and know holidays

if variable equals x

  stop

start timer

 

on timer expire 

execute announcement

add 1 to variable

 

this will not execute how ever many times you want or until some other condition is met.

 

just be sure to give the timer about 30 seconds between each execution.

 

[Tokead]

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

Curious why it was kind of working before, announcing it at least 3 times?

[Matt Lowe]

depends on how it is stacking or what process the controller is running at the given time.

announcements even short ones take about 20 seconds to run completely through give or take some time

[South Africa C4 user]

To keep it clean, why not record "Time to go" 5 times in your announcement (wav file)? Then you only need to kick off one announcement and should have no hassles.

[Tokead]

Thanks. I like both ideas. I'll increase the delay to 20 secs and try that first