Schedules

The Schedules Editor enables SB to create and deploy different schedules to the device that are triggered by the internal realtime clock. A series of actions can be defined to run when the schedule is active. The user can also edit, enable or disable schedules in the device.

  • If you think there are existing schedules in the device, then you should click sb icon load from device Load from Device, otherwise they may be overwritten when saving new SB schedules.

  • To allow the user to create schedules from the device, you need to firstly create them in SB and save them to the device. They must be enabled but do not have to be configured. Ten schedules are preloaded by default.

There are two types of schedules:

  • System Schedules are created in SM and run on multiple EGs or on the SM Server. System schedules are only visible in SM.

  • Gateway Schedules are created in SB or from the EG Web pages and run on a single EG. Gateway schedules are only visible in SM when synchronized.

There are two ways to make gateway schedules into system schedules:

  • During job import

    sb schedule eg to sb job import

  • In the SB Schedules editor, click Synchronise to System Manager, then click the Synchronise button in the dialog box.

    sb schedule synch to sm
EG schedules modified in the web pages can be made into system schedules by first selecting the EG and clicking sb icon load from device Load from Device, then clicking Synchronise to System Manager as above.

The following settings apply to all schedules in the Schedules Editor:

Set Location And Time Zone opens the Set Device Location and Time Zone dialog box. Click to change the location and time zone for the device, if different from your current location.

sb set location time zone

Set Public Holidays opens the Edit Public Holidays dialog box. Click to add, delete, edit, import (.xml or .ics), and export public holidays for your region. You can include all or exclude all public holidays in a schedule.

sb schedules edit public holidays

Set Special Events opens the Edit Special Events dialog box. Click to add, delete, edit, import (.xml), and export special events for your region. Special events temporarily override normal operational schedules.

sb schedules edit special events
Create a Schedule:

  1. Select the EG in System view.

  2. Open the Schedules tab.

  3. Click the New Schedule button to add a new schedule to the Schedules list.

  4. Select the schedule in the list to edit the Schedule Properties.

You can click the Duplicate button to add a new schedule with the same properties or click the Delete button to remove a schedule from the list. If you are connected to the EG, you can click the Run button to test a schedule.
sb schedules tab
Edit a Schedule:

  1. Under Schedule Properties, enter a Name for your schedule (the schedule’s Number is displayed below the name).

  2. Tick the Enabled checkbox to enable the schedule after it is configured.
    To set an active period for the schedule, you can then tick the Disable until the beginning of… checkbox.

  3. Select the Begin and End (if applicable) date to set the date range for the schedule. To run the schedule indefinitely, untick the End checkbox .

  4. Click Days of the week > Configure and selecting the days you want your schedule to run.

    sb schedule days

  5. Click Dates of the month > Configure and selecting the dates in the month you want your schedule to run.

    sb schedule dates

  6. Click Weeks of the month > Configure and selecting the weeks of the month you want your schedule to run.

    sb schedule weeks

  7. Click Months of the year > Configure and selecting the months in a year you want your schedule to run.

    sb schedule months

  8. Click Public holidays > Configure to determine whether the schedule should run on public holidays:

    • Click Edit to add, delete, import, or export public holidays.

    • Include All runs the schedule on all public holidays, regardless of the day/date/week/month.

    • Exclude All does not run the schedule on any public holidays, regardless of the day/date/week/month.

      To ONLY run the schedule on public holidays, select Include All, then set Days of the week, Dates of the month, Weeks of the month and Months of the year to None.

  9. Click Special events to include/exclude > Configure and select specific special event days as needed.

    • Click Edit to add, delete, import, or export special events.

    To ONLY run the schedule on the selected special event days, set Days of the week, Dates of the month, Weeks of the month and Months of the year to None.
    Schedules run on all included special event days, regardless of the day/date/week/month.
    Schedules do not run on any excluded special event days, regardless of the day/date/week/month.

  10. Set the Schedule Type to a Simple Event or Timed Event. image::sb/sb_schedule_type.png[]

  11. Specify the Start at time, Tick every interval (timed events) and Stop at time (timed events) for your schedule. The Start at/Stop at time can be absolute or relative to sunrise/sunset.

    sb schedule start time
Simple and Timed Events

A Simple Event allows you to add Start Actions to your schedule. Starting a schedule triggers the start actions.

sb schedule simple start actions

A Timed Event also supports additional Stop Actions and Tick Actions. Ending the schedule triggers the stop actions, while tick actions are triggered at the specified intervals (ticks) until the schedule stops.

sb schedule timed actions
SB uses the following logic to decide whether to run a schedule:
Day and Week and Month and Date and included public holidays and not-excluded public holidays and included special events and not-excluded special events.
Set Actions:

  1. Specify the time(s) at which to trigger the Start/Stop Actions. The time can be set as:

    • Absolute

    • Before sunrise

    • After sunrise

    • Before sunset

    • After sunset

  2. Click the Edit Actions button to open the Action Editor.

    sb action editor

  3. Click the Add Action button and select an action from the list.

  4. Configure the action properties on the right-hand side.

  5. Click the Add Delay button to add a delay between actions, if required.

  6. Click the Add Action button again to add further actions, if applicable.

  7. When finished, click the Ok button to add the action sequence to the schedule.

To repeat any action in the sequence, select the action and click the Duplicate button.