I have hosted version 1.8.2 and have all working fine except audio.
In my setup I have some slides going for about 260 seconds that I have a wav playing in that time, then it goes to videos i have. when it cycles back if i try to setup a second wav file for the next time period it will not play it.
but if i let it just cycle back to same wav it does. how can i add a second or even 3rd wav file to get them to play? it is nice to have different music through out time instead of just the same one.
I have the screen split with main at top then weather and time split below. the music is added to the clock which i have staggered with time frame to play music at correct times.
I would setup a clock first with a time of however long and add wav to it then another clock with time of however long with no wav, then repeat. problem is the repeated on had no sound.
Right, first clock widget does have an audio added, second does not have one, is this region with clocks the longest running region on your layout or are there regions with longer duration?
I have it running for some time now and it does exactly what I expect ie it plays the audio for 154s along with the images/weather etc in the bigger region.
Then for the rest of the time there are videos with audio and the second clock widget without audio.
After that, layouts reloads and the music from clock widget plays again.
Now, why does it not work for you like that is a very good question, I’m not sure yet, after whole layout reloads I’d really expect it to play the audio for the specified duration.
Could you do a test for me please.
Remove the audio from the clock widget
Add perhaps a new region, can be off the screen even, that does not matter
Add Audio module with your audio file and 154s duration to that region
Play the layout on your player, making sure that it is using updated layout version and see if it will work better for you.
Actually I think there is an issue with audio added to widgets, I tried it with different settings yesterday and I can’t say that it plays the second audio reliably.
I’ll create a GitHub issue for that so we can look into it.
In the meantime, I’d suggest using Audio module to play the music - as I mentioned created new region, add audio to it with desired durations, audio region can be outside of the layout, as it does not have any visual representation.
Or use a mix of the two, ie clock with audio widget, clock without audio widget, and then audio widget itself.
sorry took a while, but I did the audio in separate hidden area with just a blank dot in between to space out and works awesome. thanks for help Peter.
