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MS9400 HD FrEND User Guide

Chapter 4: RS232 (Serial) Port Event Scheduler

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Using a Text Editor of your choice, enter command lines as illustrated in the Event Script Format above.

NOTE: Characters are not case sensitive.

Events

The script file can contain more than one event.

Each event must be bracketed with the tags

Start Date

The Start Date uses the following format: Month/Day/Year.

The start date must be bracketed with the tags.

End Date

The End Date uses the following format: Month/Day/Year.

The end date must be bracketed with the tags.

Day of Week

The Day of Week contains seven locations (one per day of the week: Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat) separated by
commas. Assign a ‘1’ to the day location for the required event, otherwise assign a ‘0’.

The Day of Week must be bracketed with the < DayofWeek > tags.

Event Time

The Event Time uses the following format: Hour:Minute:Second.

The end date must be bracketed with the tags

Command String

The Command String contains the text string defined by the Remote Control Protocols. To transmit a string out of
the serial port to an external device, use the “outport” protocol.

NOTE: If required by the external device, a terminating character is placed in the [#] sub tag. The scheduler
supports both Line Feed and Carriage Return 0A (LF) and 0D (CR) codes.

The Command String must be bracketed with the < CommandString > tags.

NOTE: Any of the MS9400 Remote Control Protocol commands may be used in the Command String code line.
For example:

Load Playlist 1 “playlistname”.

Refer to Chapter 6: Remote Control Protocols for a list of supported commands.