[LCtalk] Time code examples requested

[Fokko van Duin]

Dear all,

As we are very near to testing the new firmware v2.06 which includes 
MTC (SMPTE) and Time clocks, I would be very happy to hear some 
examples of time/MTC applications so I can check wether it's possible 
now :-)

With firmware v2.06 you have two clocks to choose from:
1. Time (day number, and time of the day in HH, MM, SS, FF)
2. MTC  ("day number", HH, MM, SS, FF)

Both clocks have an extra field for frames/sec value, it's fixed 25 
for time, while MTC supports 24,25, 30, 30DF.

Both clocks can be made visible on assignable block of 6 light 
channels, and can also be set via the same light channels (locked MTC 
overrides this of course).

There is a new action:
  Hold until <locked> MTC |time
              is after | is before | transitions to before | 
transitions to after
              Day Hour Minute Seconds Frame  (x = ignore)

Example:

 Hold until locked MTC x:xx:xx:10:15
 go 90.1 in layer A
 go .1

Means: It waits until any time there is a transition to after 10 sec, 
at frame 15 (so it runs chase 90 every minute at x:xx:xx:10:15). So 
the x means don't care, and locked means the MTC time must be in 
locked situation.

The internal clock is started at power up at time 0:00:00:00:00, but 
will be set to the last "saved LanBox data" when using the light 
channels. At this moment we also look for a possibility to sync the 
internal clock via Ethernet to a time server on the network with the 
NTP protocol.

Anyway, in order to test some examples before we release it as beta, 
please post your need for a time/MTC driven application.