Denon 4310 Sleep Question

thepainter

Hello - Quick newbie question. I am controlling a Denon Receiver via RS232. It has a sleep protocol that works with the main zone (SLP*** (***=time, 010=10min)) In the documentation it says it will also work for zones also (e.g. Z3SLP***) however I am unable to get this to work. I would like to set up a 'Timer/wait' of (30,60,90) for zone 3 what would the best way be since the Z3 protocol does not seem to work. I was thinking on the lines of Z3PWON, WAIT x, Z3PWOFF. Is 30m, 60m, 90m considered too long?

Thanks,

Paul

ericmedley

While I'm not sure about the Denon issue, might suggest that youo handle a zone sleep timer in code. Then you could really setup a cool functionality for the user.

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thepainter

Hi Eric, Thanks for the quick reply. The user would be me and that's exactly what I was thinking. Nothing extravagant just 3 buttons 30,60 & 90. A press (button x= 30min) would turn on Zone 3, set the source and leave on for 30min then power off after 30 min. I'm not sure how to handle that though.

Paul

ericmedley

Well,
There are a couple basic ideas.
One is a simple wait from a button push. After the wait passes, run a power-down routine.

The second is a timeline. A timeline allows for more sophisticated programming and control. I would choose this method myself (and do for all things 'timer-ish')

Since you a noob you might want to stick with the WAIT for now until you've got a few more systems under your belt. The help file for the TINELINE is not overly helpful in my opinion.

Hope that helps.
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thepainter

Thanks Eric, went with the WAIT and it seems to be working so far without a hitch. Will check out the TIMELINE to see how that works when I get the chance. Thanks Again.

Paul

ericmedley wrote: »

Well,
There are a couple basic ideas.
One is a simple wait from a button push. After the wait passes, run a power-down routine.

The second is a timeline. A timeline allows for more sophisticated programming and control. I would choose this method myself (and do for all things 'timer-ish')

Since you a noob you might want to stick with the WAIT for now until you've got a few more systems under your belt. The help file for the TINELINE is not overly helpful in my opinion.

Hope that helps.
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thepainter

OK, so everything works with the WAIT. My current GUI set up is 3 buttons (15,30,60) with a Static Digital Clock for the background (see attachment #1) Is it possible to have a bargraph (see attachment #2) to show time remaining or worst case just a timer somewhere on the GUI to show time remaining.

Thanks,

Paul

vining

Yeah, you can do any or all of those things but it would be best to use a timeline instead of a wait then. With a timeline you can set the run time so the timeline event runs every second to update your count down timer or bargraph. With a bargraph you could update less frequently if desired.

You can use ^GLH (?) to set your bargraph high level to match the scale needed for your timers time or leave the barograph alone and scale you levels in code.

With a timeline just set a var for the timer selected and decrement this var on every trigger of the timeline event and when the time reaches 0 send your command to the Denon and kill the timeline.

thepainter

Thanks for the response Vining, always helpful as usual. I have yet to attempt my first bargraph so am not very familiar with the code. As it is for my personal setup I might start off with the Timeline with the countdown in the bottom corner. I have done some research on Timelines and am not quite sure I have the hang of it, is there a code sample that you could provide that might help me along the way, much appreciated. Just off the top of my head if I pressed the (15) Button to start the timeline for 15 min do I need a text box to show the countdown for the timer (0:15:00). Sorry if this is AMX 101.

Thanks,

Paul