Borealis starting on its own at wrong time of day

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Well it happened again. At 1:19 last night (early this morning) the show was on. It had stopped at 11:00pm as per normal. When I stopped it at 1:19, it was playing the last song in my show so I don't know if it would'v e stopped on itself after this. Probably not.

Like I wrote before, there is nothing on this computer. I have the bare minimums XP installed with nothing else but Aurora programs. What the heck is triggering this to happen? The ghost of Christmas past ? I'll be away for a few days during Christmas and I can't be here to monitor or turn it off, should it happen on its own. 

Edited by BigDPS - 04 Dec 2009 at 5:38am

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BigDPS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471	Quote Reply Posted: 04 Dec 2009 at 5:37am
	Well it happened again. At 1:19 last night (early this morning) the show was on. It had stopped at 11:00pm as per normal. When I stopped it at 1:19, it was playing the last song in my show so I don't know if it would'v e stopped on itself after this. Probably not. Like I wrote before, there is nothing on this computer. I have the bare minimums XP installed with nothing else but Aurora programs. What the heck is triggering this to happen? The ghost of Christmas past ? I'll be away for a few days during Christmas and I can't be here to monitor or turn it off, should it happen on its own. Edited by BigDPS - 04 Dec 2009 at 5:38am


BigDPS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471	Quote Reply Posted: 02 Dec 2009 at 2:50pm
	Yesterday, being the 1st of December, borealis didn't start. It took me a while to figure out why. I am in Canada and I use Canada English on my date settings. Borealis is full of prejudice. It HAS to be on USA ENglish or else, it just spits in my eye. Not very nice. What was weird was that I turned off the scheduler to do so and even though I didn't see any trace of the program running (i had checked in task manager), as soon as I changed the date format, it started playing my sequence! Out of nowhere!!! This program just spooks me at times.


Pony_God Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Location: Naples, FL Online Status: Offline Posts: 551	Quote Reply Posted: 01 Dec 2009 at 10:36pm
	Tonight was the first night I let it turn off on it's own, but it didn't. It was supposed to stop at 9, but at 11:00 it was still going strong. And no, I do not have 2 hours worth of seuences, it's 20-30min worth... 6 songs total. I clicked stop, then start. Show did not start, we'll see if it starts on it's own tomarow at 5.
	Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. D-Light users Unite!

JohnnyL Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Pre-Order User Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Location: Merced Ca Online Status: Offline Posts: 67	Quote Reply Posted: 30 Nov 2009 at 6:06pm
	im running 1.41 on a clean (virgin) install on my server. i never have gotten any errors on that machine. the only other glitch is it wont run an end sequence (in the second "run once" box. for some reason i dont think Borealis likes porky pig
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Jonathan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 07 Sep 2008 Location: SoCal Online Status: Offline Posts: 1237	Quote Reply Posted: 30 Nov 2009 at 5:33pm
	I'll just chime in that although my shows have ended correctly so far this season, one night there was a lone strobe light twinkling away, and this morning all the white lights for the house and the red lights for one tree were still on. I'm about to add in my run once show closer spiel, and hopefully that will take care of it.
	~Jonathan

crichter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 07 Aug 2008 Location: MN Online Status: Offline Posts: 13	Quote Reply Posted: 30 Nov 2009 at 2:28pm
	I had this same issue happen to me last night. My show runs from 5:15pm until 10:30pm and it ran fine for the last 3 days. Last night the show ran and at about 12:30am it came back on. The only difference for me is that there was no error message from the scheduler. I am using the same box I used last year, in fact it is exactly the same with the exception that I upgraded to 1.0.69 following the usual uninstall, reboot, install, reboot process. I forget what version I ran last year, however I did not have this happen once.
	Curt

LightsOnLogan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3187	Quote Reply Posted: 30 Nov 2009 at 8:46am
	I'm watching this thread. It seems there is an issue, but it isn't obvious at this time how/why it is. It is very isolated and random (out of thousands of successful show start/stops, so few instances of this have been reported that I can count them on my hands). All I can do right now is watch to see if a pattern emerges.


gtxl1200 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 25	Quote Reply Posted: 29 Nov 2009 at 3:03pm
	Im using 1.69. so far it has only happened once..

JohnnyL Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Pre-Order User Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Location: Merced Ca Online Status: Offline Posts: 67	Quote Reply Posted: 29 Nov 2009 at 3:02pm
	im just curious which version you guys are using for your shows. same thing happened to us sat morning about 1:30. wife got up to let the dog out, noticed the show was running Loud & Proud. im using ver 1.41. anyone using 1.69 having this problem?
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Jonathan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 07 Sep 2008 Location: SoCal Online Status: Offline Posts: 1237	Quote Reply Posted: 26 Nov 2009 at 9:17pm
	The scheduler goes to a black screen once started because of the video capabilities of Aurora. This is very useful if you are running off of a laptop with a projector attached to it. If you are not using video, the screen remains black. If you are, it begins to play your video sequence. To get rid of the black screen, double click. The video window then resizes down. Even when I am not running video I like it because the screen stays black and I don't have to worry about the screen staying on all night long. As for the scheduler staying on past the off time, that happened to me twice last year. Because it seemed to be an isolated event, I didn't worry about it. Try a reboot. A lot of things seem to get fixed with a reboot, and that's what I did when it happened to me. If the problem persists, report back.
	~Jonathan