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The Automation Control screen seen in the above diagram is split into 4 sections;

 Auditorium : These are external triggers that effect the theatre, such as lights, masking

and doors.

 Audio : These are controls that effect the audio processor, such as the volume, mute and

input selections.

 Display : These are external triggers that effect the display or projector.

 Theatre State : This section of the automation screen is made up of one button only. It

shows the <Macro>s that can be run. Please see the Macro Section for more information.

List All is a debug tool used by support engineers to find problems in the automation

configuration.

Lamp Hours is deprecated and will be removed in future releases.

The automation GUI remembers the last known state of a trigger device, e.g. Lights:UP indicates

that the lighting system was last sent the “UP” message. This helps support engineers to debug the

automation system by making clear to the engineer that a message has been sent, even if a resulting

action on the dCine has not occurred. For example, if the automation GUI screen says lights should

be down but you observe they are still up, you can deduce that the message was lost if you have

evidence that the automation did trigger the event.

The automation trigger list also contains a special “List All” button that is used to debug all

automation triggers.