hoosierdoc Posted December 9, 2017 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?
hoosierdoc Posted December 13, 2017 Author 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.
Mega Arch Posted December 14, 2017 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.
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