Understanding Program Status

[GreyFox]

I have created a new program for my isy994R to turn on and off a particular scene for Christmas lights.at a particular time each day. My program successfully turns the scene/lights on, but it fails to turn them off. If I look at the Administrative Console to check the status of this particular program, the status is false and there is a re bar showing in the Program Details. I have attached a screenshot that shows the program. How do I fix this?

[paulbates]

You're almost there.... under

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Set "Missouri Christmas Lights" Off

[slimypizza]

Is that the whole program?  You dont have a command to turn the lights off.  Add that statement to the ELSE portion of your program.  That will turn your lights off at 11pm.

[apostolakisl]

46 minutes ago, GreyFox said:

I have created a new program for my isy994R to turn on and off a particular scene for Christmas lights.at a particular time each day. My program successfully turns the scene/lights on, but it fails to turn them off. If I look at the Administrative Console to check the status of this particular program, the status is false and there is a re bar showing in the Program Details. I have attached a screenshot that shows the program. How do I fix this?

In "From/To" programs, the "from" time and "to" time are both triggers.  At those two times, the program will run.  At the "from" time, when it runs, it will be true (and thus execute "then" clause), at the "to" time, it will be false (and thus execute the "else" clause.

In between the from and and to time, the program will have a status of "true", and likewise, outside of those times, it will have a status of "false".  Should the program be triggered from some other trigger besides the "From" and "to" times, it will execute the "then" or "else" accordingly.  For example, you may have additional items in the "if" clause or you may have a separate program that calls the "if" clause on this program.  However, without some 3rd party trigger, this program will do nothing except at those 2 times.  So if the lights were somehow turned on at noon, this program would not try to turn them off until 11pm.