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Scheduling Playback (HD2000 only)
Videos, still images, playlists, and CSV files can be played back at scheduled times using
the autoschedule.txt file. This file contains a series of date/time specifications, followed
by a specification of what to play when the date/time event occurs.
The syntax of the date/time specification is as follows:
Year “/” Month “/” Day “-“ Day of Week “-“ Hour “:” Minutes
For example, a date/time specification for December 23, 2007 at 3:20 PM is defined as:
2007/12/23-*-15:20
In this example, the Day of Week specification parameter is a wildcard defined with an
asterisk. All date/time parameters not used must be defined as wildcards using an asterisk
(*).
Valid syntax for Date/Time parameters:
Year: “2000”..”2038” (4 digit integer from 2000 to 2038)
Month: “01”..”12” (2 digit integer from 01 to 12)
Day: “01”..”31” (2 digit integer from 01 to 31)
Day of Week: “Sun” “Mon” “Tue” “Wed” “Thu” “Fri” “Sat”
Hour: “00”..”23” (2 digit integer from 00 to 23)
Minute: “00”..”59” (2 digit integer from 00 to 59)
In the autoschedule.txt file, the line following a date/time specifications must be a csv
file, playlist file, video file or image file. When the date/time event occurs, whatever is
currently playing is stopped and the new file begins execution.
The following is an example autoschedule.txt file:
*/*/*-MON-01:00
weekday.mpg
*/*/*-SAT-01:00
weekend.mpg
In this example, the weekday.mpg file is launched on Monday at 1:00 AM and plays
continually during the week; on Saturday at 1:00 AM, the file weekend.mpg is launched
and plays until Monday at 1:00 AM.
Another example autoschedule.txt file:
2007/12/15-*-15:20
image.png
2007/12/25-*-16:16