hoosierdoc Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 I have the uMP3g3 and was hoping to run my shows off of this but just realized I need an external timer for it. I'm doing a simple 16-channel setup right now so just one controller. The manual shows a standard wall timer as the graphic to represent an external timer, is that all that's needed? If I set the show to auto play, when the timer comes on and powers the controller will the show just start running? I'm doing all LEDs so I'm guessing I can plug both sides of my controller unit into a splitter and plug that into the simple wall timer. for next year I plan to use the G3-MP3 director. Is this a reasonable plan for a small show where I don't want to have a laptop connected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Arch Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Yes. That should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierdoc Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 Got it all up and running today i have it set to run as soon as it gets power and a simple outdoor wall timer. No speaker yet. Funny little aside, I had about 20s sequenced of the first song and about two mins of the second. The first would play just fine but I couldn't get the second sequence to start. Redid the card a few times. Tried that sequence on its own and it did fine. But wouldn't start as the second sequence in the show then I realized it was probably finishing the four mins of the first song I didn't sequence yet so I set a stopwatch on my phone and waited. Sure enough, right on cue the second sequence started. Heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Arch Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 4 hours ago, hoosierdoc said: Got it all up and running today i have it set to run as soon as it gets power and a simple outdoor wall timer. No speaker yet. Funny little aside, I had about 20s sequenced of the first song and about two mins of the second. The first would play just fine but I couldn't get the second sequence to start. Redid the card a few times. Tried that sequence on its own and it did fine. But wouldn't start as the second sequence in the show then I realized it was probably finishing the four mins of the first song I didn't sequence yet so I set a stopwatch on my phone and waited. Sure enough, right on cue the second sequence started. Heh. use Audacity (it's free) to cut the song down to match sequence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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