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Strange question here: This summer we installed solar panels on our roof. Because of the way our house faces, they had to be on the front of the house. Suffice it to say that the panels have made it so I have to rearrange things on my Christmas display. I will not be able to use my 33 channel "spinners" any more. Any ideas of something cool I can make to use these 33 channels? I also have about 12 channels left over on another controller, so I could go up to 45 channels. Any ideas? I already have a 48 channel spiral mega tree; a 16 channel "Marty fan; six arches, each seven channels; a nativity display; lights around every window and door; and a few other items. I hate to leave so many channels unused...........

Or love/hate!

Good old Windows.......... It's definitely a love/date relationship!

I seemed to have fixed my own problem. With random searches on the internet, someone said to try running the Zara program as an administrator. I changed it to run that way and now it holds the file like it should. Funny thing is that it stopped working without me changing anything! Oh well, it's working now!

Jim, that doesn't seem to be the issue for me. I haven't changed anything on access, and all works, except it won't hold the TTH file, so it never updates. Any ideas, anyone. Thanks for your help.

I hope someone can help me with another Zara question: Although the season has ended, I am playing music on my Zara radio, with Time, Temperature, and Humidity announcements every so often. All of a sudden the file selection under TTH will not stay. I can select it and it works to update once, but if I go back into it, there is no file there and Units have defaulted back to Celsius. Nothing will update until I select the file again, and then it only works immediately and is gone again. I can't figure out how it could change when it worked perfectly all season. Any ideas how I can get the file to "stick" in the selection box? Weird!

Zara Radio has worked perfectly for me this season. I have two files, one for DURING my show, that inserts time, temp, and humidity at infrequent intervals, triggered by one DTMF tone. Then I use "events" to load a file with straight Christmas songs to be played during off-show times. Then an event loads the during-show-file about 2 seconds before the show starts. Like I said, all is well; however, I was wondering if there is a way for the Zara playlist to also show the artist, since it is in the file that Zara uses. I have Zara broadcasting RDS, but it only shows the song, not the artist. I could add them to the titles by hand, but I have over 40 hours of music I would have to edit. Thanks for your help!

I know the post I'm quoting is old, but I can't find an answer anywhere in the forums. I am having this exact same problem as Tim Dill. Do I need a second sound card to make it work? As soon as I enable the input line, It just feeds back terribly.

Yes, technically you are probably correct. I also go out in my car every few days to see what is happening. Still, I have the buzzing issue when RDS files are transmitted.

That helped a bit, but it's still there and I can't lower the audio too much more, or people will have to have their radios really high. I monitor with a radio indoors, instead of speakers, so I can know exactly what people hear in their cars.

I have another transmitter question: I have an EDM with RDS capability, which I have used for several years, with perfect operation. This year there is a buzzing sound that is broadcast only when the transmitter is sending out an RDS signal. It took me some time to narrow it to the RDS output, but I think that is when it is happening. Quite annoying! Anyone have any ideas? I have never heard it in previous years. I have actually had a few people ask me this season what the noise is at the beginning of each song. Thanks for your help!

Well, duh! The easiest solution right in front of my eyes (I already use batch files), and I didn't even think of it. Thanks so much!

How do you separate two or more windows shell commands in LOR? Can more than one be sent? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for your help on this subject. I still haven't got it working yet, but I am trying! I appreciate your suggestion.

I'm not looking for a video. I want text going across the screen like with a beta brite. Is that video in this case? I am currently outputting to RDS. Could that same file be used on a TV someway?