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General information

This action allows you to play audio on a server speakerYou can play back audio through a Server PC's loudspeaker

Note
titleAttention!

To make the client-side audio playback possibleexecute the action, you have to must create Speaker object allowing the Speaker system object with the Play on Serverclient playback mode (see see The Speaker Objectobject).

Configuring an action

To configure the action, set up do the parameters:following:

  1. Go to the Programming tab.
  2. In the Event rules or Cycle rules list, click Create... (see Configuring macros).
  3. Select a start condition that triggers a macro (see Configuring start conditions).
  4. Click the Image Added button below start conditions.
  5. From the drop-down list, select Notification: Play audio on device.
  6. In the Speaker parameter, select the required speaker.
  7. In the Audio source parameter, select the audio file you want to play as an audio notification.
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  8. In the Finish after parameter group, specify the condition that stops

  9. Select a speaker (1).

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  10. In the Audio file field (2), enter the full path to the audio notification file.
  11. Configure a condition (IF event, trigger) that will cancel
  12. the notification:

    Condition

    Description

    Timer

  13. (3)
  14. Only

  15. a
  16. the timer value is set.

  17.  Alerts are cancelled according to the time setting.
  18. Notification stops after the set time

    Event filter

  19. (5)
  20. One or several events are set,

  21. the
  22. timer is set to 00:00:00.

  23.  Alerts are cancelled according to the IF event (trigger).Timer (3) + Intelligent event filter (IF) (5).
  24. Notification stops when any event from the filter occurs

    Timer + event filter 

    One or several events are set,

  25. the
  26. timer is set to non-zero.

  27.  Alerts are cancelled in a given
  28. Notification stops after a specified time after

  29. the selected IF event (trigger) occurs.Timer (3) + OR flag (4) + IF (5).
  30. any event in the filter has occurred

    Timer + OR checkbox + event filter

    One or several events are set,

  31. the
  32. timer is set to non-zero,

  33. the
  34. the OR

  35. flag
  36. checkbox is set.

  37.  In
  38. In this case,

  39. the alert is cancelled on any of the two conditions: after the time interval expires or if an IF event (trigger) occurs.  
  40. notification stops when whichever condition occurs sooner: either after a specified time or when any event from the filter occurs

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    • You can

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    • set the OR checkbox only if the timer setting is

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    • non-zero.

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    • An implicit selection of an event is

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    • allowed—Last event for condition that initiated

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    • If the event that

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    • initiated the execution of the command

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    • is the Triggering start from any type of

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    • detector, then the end event

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    • is the Triggering end from the same detector.
  1. Click the Apply Image Added button.

Configuration of the Play audio on device action is complete.