Hey drew,

On 1/30/21 07:37, drew Roberts wrote:
> David.
> 
> I think I got Jorge's issue but was suggesting an alternative.
> 
> 

Got it. I wasn't sure if you understood the issue. Thanks for clearing 
up my misunderstanding!

> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 8:19 AM David Klann <dxkl...@pm.me 
> <mailto:dxkl...@pm.me>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey drew,
>     <snip>
>     I believe that what jorge is relying on is the expected behavior of
>     Rivendell to simply wait until the next Timed Event to start when the
>     log is loaded after a power failure (yes, dead air until that happens).
>     I have experienced this: restarting the computer, automatically loading
>     RDAirplay, RDAirplay automatically loading the current day's log, and
>     waiting for the next Timed Event. It just doesn't trigger at the
>     expected time in Rivendell 3.5.0 (on CentOS, so I suspect this is not
>     explicitly an Ubuntu issue).
> 
>     In fact one can test this by stopping RDAirplay normally, then
>     restarting RDAirplay.
> 
> 
> Are we missing the step of reloading the log or are we reloading the 
> last log on startup of rdairplay?
> 

The correct log does indeed get loaded!

>     After restarting, don't initiate playout, just
>     wait for the next Timed Event (you can even modify an existing Event,
>     making it "Timed, Make Next"). Make sure "Operating Mode" is set to
>     "Automatic". The timed event seems to trigger (the left-hand Log
>     display
>     is moved to the current time), but playout does not start. If you
>     modify
>     an Event and set it to "Timed, Start Immediately" it *will* start.
> 
>     So, if I'm tracking jorge, the problem is Timed Events set to "Make
>     Next", and if the Log is not playing, the log will not start by itself.
> 
> 
> Perhaps a little comparison video 2.x/3.x of the "same log" and how it 
> works on 2.x versus 3.x would be good documentation?
> 
> I have an "extra" 3.x box I could use to shoot the 3.x video if anyone 
> can do the 2.x...
> 

jorge, can you make a short video showing the 2.x behavior?

   ~David Klann
    Broadcast Tool & Die

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