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Digital Information Displays (Digital Signage) => MagicInfo => Topic started by: bobdup on December 03, 2009, 11:10:34 AM

Title: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: bobdup on December 03, 2009, 11:10:34 AM

Hi Again,

My beautifull screens are playing all the week end for .......  nobody

As I would like to take care of our environment  :) and also save the timelife of the monitor, i would like to switch them off during week end or holiday period.

Is this possible or should i add a weekly timer on the plug

Thank's again

Bob

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: fluidium on December 03, 2009, 12:00:45 PM

Hi Bob

believe it or not this comes up again and again on here and it never seems to be included in updates to the program.

Why not have a week day schedule as well as daily/weekly/monthly - it seems pretty simple to me. Think of all the schools/colleges/universities that use the system but shut at weekends.

We kind of got round it by recording a mouse macro which we run on a Friday to turn all the screen 'on' timers off and then on Monday we run another to turn all the screen 'on' timers on again. We leave all the 'off' timers as they are.

To make the macro we used Autohotkey  ;D

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: Bill Coral on December 04, 2009, 01:00:05 AM

Turning the screens off is simple. Please follow these steps:

1) create a new template
2) in the background select source (defaults to PC)
3) Select the source to Panel off
4) Save the template with an appropriate name

You can schedule this anytime you want. I normally have the Off.scn template fro 0000 to 0800 and then from 1800 to 2400. This turns off the panel, but not the embedded PC which is normal as when the template at 0800 starts, the screen will wake up.

I hope this helps.

Bill

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: fluidium on December 04, 2009, 08:12:25 AM

Hi Bill

just wondered, if you are using the daily schedule is there a quick way to turn the screens off just for Saturday/Sunday without having to build a weekly schedule? When you have many screens (30+) the schedule database clogs up with too many entries if using the weekly schedule and takes forever to do anything if you schedule more than one weeks worth of weekly schedules. We like to schedule at least a month ahead using the daily schedule but how to leave out weekends in an easy way?

Many thanks  ???

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: bobdup on December 07, 2009, 09:51:35 AM

Thank's Bill,

I will try this asap.

But as Fluidium said I will have to reshedule by week  :P

Bob

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: Stringer on December 08, 2009, 09:14:57 AM

Hi Bill,

I just tried to create a screen using source set to PC, but cannot see an option for "Panel off" in the source... Am I missing a trick somewhere?

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: bobdup on December 08, 2009, 01:54:57 PM

Hi Stringer

On the background selet screen on the tree view

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: bobdup on December 08, 2009, 01:58:54 PM

Oup's press the enter key to fast
So on the background select screen on the left treee view then in the parameter list at the bottom
Type = Source list
Sourcelist =Panel Off

Bob

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: Stringer on December 09, 2009, 10:35:01 AM

Thanks!  ;D

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: bg on December 22, 2009, 04:01:17 PM

Quote from: bobdup on December 07, 2009, 09:51:35 AM

Thank's Bill,

I will try this asap.

But as Fluidium said I will have to reshedule by week  :P

Bob

the weekly stuff just SUCKS ;) .. well thanks for the trick with the panel_off , but as everyone knows you now have to set for each week , 5days .. ah this is such a crap ;) otherwise you can - well save 14hours if you keep it turned on on saturday/sunday like the daily weektime schedule. rofl ;) ... saving 14hours instead of 24hours .. so only 10hours turned on like week-days ;)

regards
ben

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: bg on January 13, 2010, 10:27:22 AM

we use magicinfo-i , because the handling of the -pro isnt suitable for us , anyone knows how to switch on/off during weekend/weekdays in magicinfo-i ?

regards

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: josesima on October 26, 2010, 10:44:28 AM

Hi, i have found a very simple solution for this, it work for us.

I have set in MDC to start the TV at 08:00H and shutdown at 18:00H each day, this will start also in weekends i know :) but then i have put a schedule task  with the shutdown.exe tool
(http://www.petri.co.il/quickly_abort_shut_down_commands_on_xp_2003.htm) with the syntax "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Shutdown.exe /L /T:30 /Y /C"
and save it to run any Saturday and Sunday, so the TV will start at 08:00H in saturday and Sunday and the schedule task will run at 08:15H and shutdown the internal PC.

Hope this will help.

Regards.

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: London-I on October 26, 2010, 03:36:51 PM

Ooo, crafty-I like it !!  ;D ;D

I will give it a go this week. Thanks for sharing.  :D

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: Bill Coral on October 30, 2010, 07:42:11 AM

Yes indeed! This a most efficient way in combining application software and OS together to maximise use of equipment. Just remembered my IBM days, all networking systems working together in harmony (well not always...) TSO, CICS, 3270, 5250 etc.

Having a Windows task to reboot the Samsung screens also helps in memory leakage and it is a good practice to do that.

With regards to the Panel Off schedule, yes you are quite right; it is tedious and having to program that all the time is not ideal.

Bill

Title: Re: How to switch off the screens during week end
Post by: josesima on October 30, 2010, 12:24:25 PM

Hi Bill thanks for the feedback, it means a lot.

Regarding this solution, we can run the script whenever we want, for example not just weekends, i have configured to run the task in our holidays, and in some Fridays that we only work until 12:00H i have configured to run at 12:15H, this mean that you can shutdown the internal PC as you like.

I'm glad to help.

Regards