Good afternoon. I was tasked with designing and installing a custom PA system outside of a veterans farm. He has two system goals: First, have a bugle call play automatically at 0600. Then a different bugle call at 1700. Finally a third playing at 2200. This daily cycle is to continue forever. His other goal was to have addition music files to be playable at any time via a keyboard. These could be any of the three existing bugle calls, or another file already in the device.
I have used Brightsign video players in the past and had good luck with them. However, we were using Control4 to fire off scheduled events and power on and off the entire system. In this case, I thought an AU335 audio only player would be a good choice and should be able to do what I want.
I obtained the AU335 and a 12 button USB keyboard and started working on the project. I was able to get the keyboard triggers to work correctly and any of the 7 total music files would play when manually commanded. Where I am stuck, is how should I program this so the 3 files will play on there own? I think I would use an event handler and the time/clock event to trigger the audio at that time but what is the right way? What would be awesome would if someone could write a sample file that I could look at for guidance. I'm realizing that I don't even know if I'm setting up the zones correctly or if that schedule page needs to been set for something other than 00:00-23:59.
One last request that I've thought of. Can I have a keyboard button stop whatever is currently playing and go back to a "standby" mode? Ie, he presses a button on the keyboard to start a song playing but decides he wants to not hear the whole thing. He then presses the stop button and the files stops playing immediately. On the same note, I wouldn't want one file to be playing and another one starts playing over the first one. Would I use a similar technique to have any currently playing music stop before starting the selected file? We would only ever have a maximum of 11 music files in the project, with the 12th button reserved for that music stop button.
A big thanks for any help making this project work correctly.
