I am looking to program a delay into a macro in my MSC 400...I would like the delay to be approximately 5 minutes. I see that the delays that are typically used are generally shorter...less tha 30 sec.

If I include a long delay in a macro, will the MSC be able to execute other commands from other controllers during that time? In other words, can the MSC 400 multi-task while in the middle of excecuting a 5 minute macro?

Thanks...

I'm fairly certain that when the MSC-400 is executing a macro, that's all that can happen.

Only one at a time.
Why five minutes?

In my system, I prefer to power down my blue ray player when not in use...however, I use a common blueray player to distribute between 4 rooms via matrix switch.

On occasion, my houshold will begin watching a program in one room and at some point decide to move to a different room. When the primary room system is powered down, so is the blueray...what I would like to have ia a reasonable delay to allow for a time to transition from one room to another and not have the player shutdown just to restart and find where we left off.

A five minute delay would allow enough time to where this situation can be avoided.

If there is a different approach that I should use, I am open to suggestion.

Currently I am using variables to track multi-room actions on the blue-ray to prevent power down if power is shut down in one room if other rooms are powered on and watching the same source...

 you could probably trigger an external timer using the msc400's relay output, then use a voltage sensor to sense when the timer expires, thus triggering your power off command.  I don't know of such a timer, but I'm sure something exists that you could make work.

How about a variable using the pause button.
If pause is true don't power off the bluray and shut down the rest.
Unless I'm just not getting it.

You could always redirect the user to another page when the blu-ray is inuse that asks them if they are switching rooms when powering off.

just a keep it stupid and simple suggestion.

Thanks guys...I like the pause/variable idea...this is probably the most reasonable and simple solution.

Will try to implement and see if I can make it work.

Thanks...