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Scheduling Carousel Bulletins as Cablecast Shows
I'm looking for strategies and ideas for implementing an hourly news/weather/traffic break.
This is what I have so far:
Throughout the daily schedule we'd like to switch from CableCast to Carousel to display a group of dynamic bulletins featuring local weather/news/traffic. My simple solution was to schedule Carousel so that during the day only that group of boards ran and during the evening, the rest of our full bulletin board cycle played. Then, on the cablecast side, we'd just schedule in gaps in program at the top and bottom of the hour, forcing Cablecast to default to Carousel where it would display our dynamic news boards.
The problem: About 80% of our city gets a feed of the California Channel which is currently routed through the cable company instead of through us. Like, the cable company lays the Cal. Cahnnel feed on top of our outgoing signal- Carousel.
The other 20% get cable through the phone company, phone company does not have the Cal. Channel, so the Fios customers see our Carousel all morning. Which means I can't really have them look at the same 4-5 screens all morning.
We've also looked at scheduling our weather/traffic as alert bulletins but it seems like we'd have to schedule 24 separate groups (copies) [ see a related question] and that seems like a lot of extra housekeeping to keep up on.
The "Is this doable?" question: Can I schedule a group of Carousel bulletins? Like, consider carousel as an input device, like a DVD player or video server. In addition, I'd only want to schedule one group of bulletins, not the entire cycle.
Summary: I want to schedule Weather and Traffic at the top and bottom as a Cablecast show that is made up of a specified group of Carousel bulletins.
This is what I have so far:
Throughout the daily schedule we'd like to switch from CableCast to Carousel to display a group of dynamic bulletins featuring local weather/news/traffic. My simple solution was to schedule Carousel so that during the day only that group of boards ran and during the evening, the rest of our full bulletin board cycle played. Then, on the cablecast side, we'd just schedule in gaps in program at the top and bottom of the hour, forcing Cablecast to default to Carousel where it would display our dynamic news boards.
The problem: About 80% of our city gets a feed of the California Channel which is currently routed through the cable company instead of through us. Like, the cable company lays the Cal. Cahnnel feed on top of our outgoing signal- Carousel.
The other 20% get cable through the phone company, phone company does not have the Cal. Channel, so the Fios customers see our Carousel all morning. Which means I can't really have them look at the same 4-5 screens all morning.
We've also looked at scheduling our weather/traffic as alert bulletins but it seems like we'd have to schedule 24 separate groups (copies) [ see a related question] and that seems like a lot of extra housekeeping to keep up on.
The "Is this doable?" question: Can I schedule a group of Carousel bulletins? Like, consider carousel as an input device, like a DVD player or video server. In addition, I'd only want to schedule one group of bulletins, not the entire cycle.
Summary: I want to schedule Weather and Traffic at the top and bottom as a Cablecast show that is made up of a specified group of Carousel bulletins.
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Inappropriate?So this is going to be kinda of a hack around what you want to do. As its been mentioned in other threads, Carousel presently doesn't support this capability natively.
However, Carousel can schedule RSS feeds, and the output of your zones are available as RSS feeds. So here is what I would try doing, although I don't know if it will work.
Create a new zone with bulletins you want to schedule. Don't add it to a channel layout (This is the part that I'm unsure of. Hopefully a TRMS'r will chime in. I think that a zone should still render bulletins even if its not placed in a channel layout)
Take the RSS feed of that zone and make a new alert bulletin to run when you want to switch cablecast to Carousel.
You'lll have to make an alert RSS bulletin for every time you want the slides shown, but at least you won't have to schedule every slide individually, just the RSS feed.
Here is a post I did on how to subscribe to a zones RSS feed. The same should work, just do it as an alert bulletin.
http://getsatisfaction.com/trms/topic...
Hope it helps
-ray
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This is one of the best points
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I've wrapped my head around this idea, Ray and I see how it might work. Let me follow up next week with the results!
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