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Object durations

Asked by Sam

Apologies in advance for the noobie question...

I've got a layout with three regions

Region 1 - Clock lasting 10 seconds
Region 2 - RSS ticker lasting 20 seconds
Region 3 - 1 text and 2 photos, each set to 20 seconds

However, the photos seem to stay on for varying lengths of time - 20 seconds up to 10 minutes. Am I missing something obvious here? Is there a minimum duration for a object in a region?

Thanks

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

So assuming nothing changes while the layout's running, your region 1 will
be rendered and left alone. Region 2 will be rendered and left alone.
Region 3 will show the text for 20 seconds, the first image for 20 seconds
and then the second image for 20 seconds, then the whole layout will reload
and start again.

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Sam (1s) said : 		#2

Hi Alex, that's what I thought would happen. however region 3 is showing each images and text for anywhere between 20 seconds and 10 minutes.

Thanks

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#3

Check the status screen and see what it's showing

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Sam (1s) said : 		#4

Hi Alex, where do I find that?

Thanks

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#5

Press i with the client running

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Sam (1s) said : 		#6

Hi Alex,

It seems to be running better over the weekend, but its still not quite right. The log has about 20 lines of:

UI Thread|30/11/2014 16:06:07|Error|xmds_GetResource|Unable to get Resource: Unable to get the media resource

and a couple of:

RequiredFilesAgentThread|28/11/2014 23:24:02|Error|RequiredFilesAgent - Run|Exception in Run: The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server.

Xibo is running through XAMPP on a single machine

Thanks

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Dan Garner (dangarner) said : 		#7

It sounds like you have an intermittent connection issue (although I don't see how that would cause the prior behaviour). Can you check you have the latest .NET framework installed?

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Sam (1s) said : 		#8

Hi Dan, I've re-installed .net v4.0.3 Still appears to be the same. I'll add some more memory to the computer later and see if that has any impact.

Thanks

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Sam (1s) said : 		#9

Still have same issues. Memory upgrade did not help.

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Dan Garner (dangarner) said : 		#10

Can you try with a simple layout of 2 images, 10 seconds each - do they cycle correctly?

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Sam (1s) said : 		#11

Hi Dan, a layout of 2 images 10 seconds each cycles correctly. as does a layout with just a rss ticker on it.

Thanks

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Sam (1s) said : 		#12

Just tried removing the rss ticker in region 2, all appears to be working correctly.

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Dan Garner (dangarner) said : 		#13

Did that ticker display correctly in the CMS? It might be that there was an intermittent problem with that ticker which caused the layout to error (because the ticker wasn't available).

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Sam (1s) said : 		#14

Just tried re-adding it to the layout, timings have gone again. Appeared to be showing okay in the CMS, however tried changing it to another feed and that's working okay. So must have been the feed.

Thanks