Random Triggers

[holdestmade]

Hi

I was wondering if there is any way to trigger an event randomly from a group of 10, over a period of time ?

I have 10 UDP-connected lights that I would like to randomly sequence.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance

Si

[leothlon]

think you'd do it with a scritp..

i'm not good at python but a quick google search gave me this:
http://effbot.org/pyfaq/how-do-i-genera ... python.htm
import random
print random.randrange(1,10)

so i guess your scritpt would be something like this:

import random
eg.TriggerEvent("randomBlinkingLight." + random.randrange(1,10))

if i'm not mistaken it would trigger an event named:
randomBlinkingLight.1 to randomBlinkingLight.10

then you can drag that to the correct udp command macro.


So step-by-step:
1, set an timmer with scheduleghost or simmular to trigger event "myBlinkingLightTrigger" or something.
2, drag this trigger to a macro with the above script, (also if you want the other lights to turn off here could be a good place to add udp commands to turn all lights off)
3, drag the triggers from the script to macros containing the corresponding udp command.

[holdestmade]

Brill, worked a treat !

Thanks very much.

[dt1000]

Thanks for the great info!
I had to make a teeeny little change to get it working, but otherwise it was perfect!

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import random
eg.TriggerEvent("Playlist." + str(random.randrange(1,4)))