Schedule actions with Scheduler — My Music Player and My Music Player LE

The player can be programmed using a function called Scheduler. At a specified date and time, it can play an available audio source (Main Media content, web radio, auxiliary input, etc.), stop or resume playback, change the main volume, or update the Main Media content via FTP.

Note: This function depends on the player’s clock. See Setting the Clock of the Player.

Principle

The player uses its internal clock to execute scheduled actions at the specified date and time. These actions are stored in a timestamped programming file called the Scheduler file.

How timestamped programming works

The Scheduler file contains a calendar running from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2037. Each date in the calendar refers to a daily action program called a day template.

How the calendar works

• Dates that do not require any action are left empty and do not refer to a day template.
• Dates that require exactly the same sequence of actions refer to the same day template in the calendar.

A day template contains all the events scheduled for a single day, for each minute from 00:00 to 23:59. These events specify one or more commands (actions) to execute and the precise time at which they must be executed.

The Scheduler function works as follows:

• A Scheduler file can contain up to 255 different day templates.
• A day template can trigger an event every minute.
• An event is executed precisely at the change of minute.
• An event can execute up to 32 commands.
• The commands in an event are executed sequentially.
• Commands following a SPOT folder command wait until the SPOT folder has been played completely before they are executed.
• An event can be executed with or without priority:
  • Priority: Playback stops immediately to execute the event’s commands.
  • No priority: The player waits until the current track has finished before executing the event’s commands.

Priority depends on the initial playback state when the event occurs. The following table shows the possible sequences when No priority is selected for a scheduled event, depending on the player’s initial playback state.

I: The event’s commands are executed immediately.
●: The event’s commands are executed at the end of the file currently playing.

How a day template works

Command list

Create a timestamped programming file

The timestamped programming is stored in a TM3 file (scheduler.tm3), generated using the Scheduler software.

Important: The Scheduler file must be named exactly scheduler.tm3. The player ignores timestamped programming files with any other name.

Assign a schedule to the player

Once the scheduler.tm3 programming file has been created, copy it to the SYSTEM folder on the Main Media storage device.

The Scheduler programming file is copied in the same way as other files.