Time delays in Macros

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Time delays in Macros

Post by Russ_270 » Thu Apr 03, 2014 8:59 pm

I understand the need to use delays between commands to the same device ie power on, input 1, but is there a danger in asking Demopad to do to many things at once without delays between commands?

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Re: Time delays in Macros

Post by DemoPad » Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:48 pm

The DemoPad app can handle many simultaneous commands / actions - usually the reason for needing a delay is because the receiving equipment cannot cope with many commands sent to it too quickly.

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Re: Time delays in Macros

Post by Russ_270 » Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:00 am

Thanks for the reply. Would 10 simultaneous actions be considered as "many".

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Re: Time delays in Macros

Post by DemoPad » Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:09 am

No - though it does technically depend what the actions are doing though. It is common to have 20-30 actions on a button press. If you have much more than that - I'd look at why you have so many - for example if you are setting lots of flags individually rather than using 'exclusively on' group flag commands etc.

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