Overlays

[Jeroen R]

Could you explain how to smoothly play an overlay from a script?

Question: In the script, I select a scheduled overlay. However, it's always skipped in the Professional version (not the FULL version, so without reload advertising and overlays).

The overlay should play at the exact location specified in the script. The overlay should play from the playlist and be visible.

1. What options should you set in the overlay scheduler?
- What is the best maximum start delay to ensure it's never skipped?
2. What options should you set in the script?
3. What options should you enable in the program scheduler?
4. What options should you enable in the general settings?

I've already selected and tried several options. Thanks in advance for your help.

[radio42]

Please post your script and the overlay (eg. the screen shots).
What type of overlay do you want to play?

In the Professional edition you can not execute Advert overlays. Or in other words you could only execute overlays of type Script.

So my first question would be (if you need to execute a script at a special script-line position), why you use an Overlay? You could simply use the ‚Execute‘ script-line.

To your other questions.
If you use the Advert overlay mode it will be skipped because of that and your Professional Edition.
If you use the Script overlay mode there can only be a reason, because it was already triggered by the overlay scheduler? You can not really use both in parallel, i.e. overlays player and script. If an overlay is about to be started by the overlay scheduler, it is checked, the the current playlist contains any overlay entry, if yes it will be suppressed. If a script executes a Container script-line (with the entry OVERLAY), it will be checked, if that overlay was already executed by the scheduler. But I don't know what/how you are using it currently.
The start delay parameter you mentioned has no effect on this.

[Jeroen R]

So we're using the Professional edition. Does this date the adjustments from the SHEDULER overlay?
Observation: I've tried numerous OPTIONS, but I can't get the overlay to the fixed location in the SCRIPT.
OVERLAY is used because there's only one SCRIPT.
This one SCRIPT contains the OVERLAY: INFO, which alternates between: news, regional news, weather, etc. This way, there wouldn't be a need for three separate scripts.
Question:
1: Is this possible with this Professional edition?
So, a script with an overlay in a fixed location?
2: What options are available in the schedulers and general settings?

Thanks in advance for the information! I've tried all sorts of options, but the overlay either skips, plays twice, or doesn't play at all.
So, I might not be configuring something correctly in this version, or it might not be possible due to the limitations of this Professional edition.

[radio42]

As said, as your Overlay just starts a Script, why don’t you use the Execute mode in a script line.

Using 3 scripts is ways more easy in my mind.

But in general it should work, also with the Prof. Edition. But that depends on how you have defined all your other programs and overlays and how long your playlist is and what else is contained, as explained above. The dependencies are not that easy.
Ie. that’s why I suggest in your case to use the Execute script-line mode instead of using Overlays.