Simple way to trigger an 24h timeline?

Without seeing your exact config I am cannot be sure on exactly how this is setup but here is where I would start.

First your base timeline, if this is just a static look then I would just have a timeline that starts on startup but set its priority to Lowest.
This will mean this timeline can be stomped on by other timelines at higher priorities but when they release it will still be playing back in the background.

Your 1 Day effect timeliene can run at Normal Priority and as above will stomp on the normal timeline but when its released it will go back to the base.

For your real time triggers that are setting levels of the fixtures I would make these be set master intensity actions so they just dim up and down the master meaning the base timeline again is still running underneath.

To stop the master intensity triggers from running when using your special 1 day timeline then I would add a condition of if timeline on stage (negate) to these triggers so they wont fire if the special 1 day timeline is playing back but will when it isn't running

Hope this makes sense.

Tom

If you have quite a lot of 1 day special timelines, so that you don’t have to add them to the conditions each time of excluding dimmer control: patch a single channel to a sAcn universe and then add that channel at full to each special timeline. Then in your condition to exclude dimmer control, if that channel is at full, then don’t do the trigger. 

I was going to suggest logic that looks for a looping dummy timeline that triggers with a flag or when one of the special timelines starts to do something similar, but I like your way better.

You would need to watch this universe back and use the DMX input as the condition? 
You cannot watch that channel directly.

yeah, set up DMX input for sacn.. I read it as you patch a fixture to a SACN universe, Use that fixture in the special shows, listen to that sacn channel as a condition... and bobs your uncle 

This seems like a great idea how to do this. But I can't get it to work for some reason. It should be pink today, but when I uploaded the files, it went dark. I have simplified the show and here's a link to it. Am I doing it right? Fixture 401 is the one used for dimmer trigger. Running 2.8.6

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I need to test on a controller but possibly because both controllers are looking at sACN as an input. Set a single controller to be the condition test.

I need to test on a controller but possibly because both controllers are looking at sACN as an input. Set a single controller to be the condition test.

Hmm. This did not work. I've also removed the start-up triggers, just in case, but the result is the same. I've also moved the Real time and Astronomical dimmer triggers to the top with no result.

I can see the output of the 4th sACN universe and the "dimmer fixture" at channel 512 is at 255, yet the fixtures are still dark.

The problem is - I can only test this live at the capitol's main square, which is not very convinient. 

On the web interface Input page, do you see channel 512 at full there?