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Posted by Christian Hove (Member # 6743) on 03-17-2014, 07:38 AM:
I have encountered two built-in macro actions on our Doremi DCP-2K4's that I have not succeeded getting anything useful from.
The two actions are:
- Macro Control => Purge Pending Macro
- Playback => Playback Actions => Skip to ShowPlaylist Pack
Both of these actions are poorly described in the manual.
I have tried to use the actions in different scenarios, but to me it seems that they do nothing but generating errors in /doremi/log/drmplaylistd.log such as:
[Mon Mar 17 10:11:09 2014]: [PLAYER]: Executing macro "SkipToChr"
[Mon Mar 17 10:11:09 2014]: [PLAYER]: Macro "SkipToChr" executed with status: PlaybackElementStatusExecutionFailed
and
[Mon Mar 17 09:40:45 2014]: [127.0.0.1]: Received `ExecuteMacroCue("PURGE_PENDING_MACROS")' command: PlaybackElementStatusExecutionFailed.
Has anyone figured out how these actions work and what they are useful for?
Posted by Carsten Kurz (Member # 5396) on 03-17-2014, 04:47 PM:
Yep, after all the software updates in recent years it is hard to believe the latest available Cinelister manual is 6 years old.
- Carsten
Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 12-20-2019, 09:28 AM:
It has been 2103 days since the last post.
Posted by Annli Com (Member # 8266) on 12-20-2019, 09:28 AM:
Posted by John Thomas (Member # 6509) on 12-20-2019, 01:37 PM:
Purge Pending Macro just exits whatever macro is currently executing.
For example if you have a macro running that has a fairly long delay built into it, you can make a trigger that contains the Purge Pending Macro action that will exit out of that long delay and continue the playlist.