Not sure how to accomplish this, or even if possible... Do know that I do not know how to program in JAVA, etc. though pretty good at designing my Pronto Pro.

I would like to have it so that dependent on the time of the day a different command would be ran. For example, in my media room during the day it gets some ambient light and thus the projector has been calibrated for it. There is another saved calibration setting for nighttime when ambient light is not an issue. What would be great is if I could have a button that recalled "Daytime" projector settings if the time was between (for example) 7 AM and 6 PM, other wise (i.e. 6:01 PM and 6:59 AM) it would recall the "Nighttime" settings. Basically the day and night settings can be called up via a macro I created for the projector.

Thoughts?

I don't think you can querey the time clock and then do anything with it. More likely in a ProntoScript but I do not know.

You could easily add activites to do this and then you manually choose which one you want. RE: Watch XYZ daytime and Watch XYZ nightime. Run the macros with the different projector settings.

Auto config would be very cool but I don't see it happening. Possibly in a java script.

Dave

The pronto has a clock with sufficient accuracy for what you want. You can read the clock and based upon its value alter the operation. It will require prontoscript however.

the actual Prontoscript code is quite simple. The information on the clock is not (as I recall) discussed in the pronto Developers guide, but since it is JAVAscript any good Java reference will discuss it.

I use a JAVA function to get the date time in seconds in a lot of my code as that is quite simple.

For example
LT=new Date();
localHours=LT.getHours(); // this is now the hours field of the date
localMinutes=LT.getMinutes(); // This is now the minutes field of the date

Barry,

Are you sure about the time being correct? IIRC, there's an offset in milliseconds that is set during download time that will cause Hours and Minutes to be adjusted but early prontoscript experience for sure proved to me that the M,D,and Y, were not valid. The only thing I could rely on from the Date() constructor that was valid, IIRC, is seconds.

To get hour and minute, you must use GUI.getDisplayTime() and then break it apart for either a 12 or 24 hour clock.

Here's some code I used in the past to do this.


// Extract from GUI.getDisplayTime(), the hour, minute, and 'am' or 'pm'.
// In case of 24 hour clock, variable ampm will be either an empty string, null, or
// undefined - TBD by your own debugging.

var timePattern = new RegExp('(\\d+):(\\d+)((am|pm)*)','g');
GUI.getDisplayTime().match(timePattern);
var hour = parseInt(RegExp.$1,10);
var minute = parseInt(RegExp.$2,10);
var ampm = RegExp.$3;
var seconds = new Date().getSeconds();

Lyndel, you are probably right. I was just quoting the Java doc. I also only use seconds in my work.

IIRC = If I Remember Correctly ?? Need to remeber that one

considering I have zero skills at scripts I am thinking (unless someone wants to write the code) that having buttons that send the commands is the easiest route...

Barry,

IIRC - If I Recall Correctly

Recall - Remember, IIRC which one it is (;-)

:-P

I would be willing, for a reasonable cost, to pay someone to create the script to do what I described. If interested email me at [email protected]

Thanks!

I'd be happy doing it for you at no cost if you send me your XCF configuration file by RC mail together with identifying the button(s) in question and what you want them to do. Also, say whether you use PEPV1 or PEPV2 as your editor.

Guy, you will know if PEPv2 if you try to load in PEPv1.

THANKS! Sent message via email with the XCF, could not see how to attach files via RC Mail. I am using PEP V1

Got the XCF with the script you wrote, THANKS! Works exactly as I wanted!

Hi Guys,

Been lurking at the string. This sounds very useful. Do you mind posting the script?

Herb