Roku manual Scheduling Playback HD2000 only

Scheduling Playback (HD2000 only)

Videos, still images, playlists, and CSV files can be played back at scheduled times using the autoschedule.txt file. This file contains a series of date/time specifications, followed by a specification of what to play when the date/time event occurs.

The syntax of the date/time specification is as follows:

Year “/” Month “/” Day “-“ Day of Week “-“ Hour “:” Minutes

For example, a date/time specification for December 23, 2007 at 3:20 PM is defined as: 2007/12/23-*-15:20

In this example, the Day of Week specification parameter is a wildcard defined with an asterisk. All date/time parameters not used must be defined as wildcards using an asterisk

(*).

Valid syntax for Date/Time parameters:

Year:	“2000”..”2038” (4 digit integer from 2000 to 2038)
Month:	“01”..”12” (2 digit integer from 01 to 12)
Day:	“01”..”31” (2 digit integer from 01 to 31)
Day of Week:	“Sun” “Mon” “Tue” “Wed” “Thu” “Fri” “Sat”
Hour:	“00”..”23” (2 digit integer from 00 to 23)
Minute:	“00”..”59” (2 digit integer from 00 to 59)

In the autoschedule.txt file, the line following a date/time specifications must be a csv file, playlist file, video file or image file.

The following is an example autoschedule.txt file:

2007/12/15-*-15:20 image.png

2007/12/25-*-16:16 music.bsp

2008/1/*-WED-16:00 video.mpg

2008/1/*-*-07:00 breakfast.bsp

2008/1/*-*-14:00 demo.csv

In this example, the image “image.png” will be displayed starting on December 15, 2007 at 3:20 PM. On December 25, at 4:16 PM, the playlist “music.bsp” will start. The next

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