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A "Pause System" button

I'm trying to figure out how to Pause a system including all timelines and triggers. Basically lock the controller in it's current state regardless of any triggers (real time, astronomical, etc) until it is released. I can't seem to find the right combination of actions or script syntax to do it. Anyone written a script to do something like this before?

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  • One way you can do this is with the Management Modes IO module.

    Create two modes, 'System Active' & 'System Paused'. Then you create a trigger for your System Paused state. In this trigger you change the management mode to 'System Paused' and run the Pause All timelines action (if you want to completely freeze whatever programming you have running).

    Then for every applicable trigger you add a condition that checks if the mode is 'System Active' and will only run that trigger if that condition is true.

    To revert, make another trigger to change the management mode back to 'System Active' and run the Resume All action.

  • in reply to Stefan Zubovic

    I keep forgetting about the IO modules. Currently I'm disabling the ACN output and my gateways are holding last look forever. It works but is a pretty blunt instrument. Module modes seems like a much more elegant solution. 

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