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General information

This action allows you to play audio on a Server server speaker. 

Note
titleAttention!

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

Configuring an action

To configure the action, set up do the parametersfollowing:

  1. Go to the Programming tab.
  2. In the Event rules or Cycle rules list, click Create... (see Configuring
  3. Configure the conditions to start a macro (see Configuring filters for event-driven
  4. macros).
  5. Select a start condition that triggers a
  6. speaker (1).
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  7. macro (see Configuring start conditions).
  8. Click the Image Added button below start conditions.
  9. From the drop-down list, select Notification: Play audio on device.
  10. In the Speaker parameter, select the required speaker.
  11. In the
  12.  Audio file field (2)
  13. Audio source parameter, select the audio file you want to play as an audio notification
  14. file
  15. .
  16. Configure a condition (IF event, trigger) that will cancel

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  18. In the Finish after parameter group, specify the condition that stops the notification:

    Condition

    Description

    Timer

  19. (3)
  20. Only

  21. a
  22. the timer value is set.

  23. Alerts are cancelled according to the time setting
  24. Notification stops after the set time

    Event filter

  25. (5)
  26. One or several events are set,

  27. the
  28. timer is set to 00:00:00.

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

    Timer + event filter 

    One or several events are set,

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

  33. Alerts are cancelled in a given
  34. Notification stops after a specified time after

  35. the selected IF event (trigger) occursTimer (3)
  36. any event in the filter has occurred

    Timer + OR checkbox

  37. (4) + IF (5).
  38. + event filter

    One or several events are set,

  39. the
  40. timer is set to non-zero,

  41. the
  42. the OR checkbox is set. In this case,

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

    Info
    titleNote

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    • You can set the OR checkbox

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    • only if the timer setting is

...

    • non-zero.
    • An implicit selection of an event is

...

    • allowed—Last event for condition that initiated execution (see Configuring

...

...

    • If the event that initiated the execution of the command

...

    • is the Triggering start from any type of

...

    • 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.