Venus 1500 v4: How to schedule overnight or past midnight, make display blank at night, or create dayparting playlists

Scheduled Playlist Mode:  Allows content to be scheduled to play at various times of the day.

Option 1:  Dayparting content to run during specific times of the day. 
Follow these steps when you want specific content to be played during specific times each day. Example: Morning playlist running breakfast content only from Open-10:30; Lunch specials 10:30-2, etc...

1. Launch Venus 1500 V4 software.
2. Click Schedule Tab.
3. Click Add -> Playlist.
4. Provide the playlist with a Description (i.e. Morning, Afternoon, Evening) and choose a Color to help differentiate it from other playlists.
5. Click the Green Plus sign, browse and select presentation(s), and click Open to add presentations to the playlist.
6. Set the Start Date from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
7. Set the End Date from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
8. Set the Start Time (i.e. 6:00:00 AM for when you want your Morning playlist to begin.) from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard. 
9. Set the End Time (i.e. 10:00:00 AM for when you want your Morning playlist to stop.) from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
10. Since the messages are scheduled to run for a certain time each day, then click Recurrence tab.
11. Change the recurrence pattern from None to Weekly (You can also choose Monthly or Yearly) and choose which days of the week you want the playlist to play.
12. Click OK.
13. Click Publish To Display.
14. The display will be blank outside of the time range you chose unless you schedule other playlists to play during that time.

Option 2:  Blanking display during specific times of the day. 
Follow these steps if your display needs to be turned off overnight.  For our example we will say the display has to be blank between 1:00:00 AM and 5:00:00 AM to comply with city ordinances.

1. Venus 1500 V4 does not allow playlists to have an end time that is before the start time. The resolution is to create two playlists.
2. To begin creating playlist #1 click on the Schedule Tab.
1. Click Add -> Playlist.
2. Provide playlist #1 with a Description (i.e. 9pm-5am, Early Morning, After Hours) and choose a Color to help differentiate it from other playlists.
3. Click the Green Plus sign, browse and select presentation(s), and click Open to add presentations to the playlist.
4. Set the Start Date from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
5. Set the End Date from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
6. Some local/city ordinances require displays to be turned off overnight so for our example we will say the display has to be blank between 1:00:00 AM and 5:00:00 AM.
7. Set the Start Time to 12:00:00 AM from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard. 
8. Set the End Time to 1:00:00 AM from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard. 
9. Since the messages are scheduled to run for a certain time each day, then click Recurrence tab.
10. Change the recurrence pattern from None to Weekly (You can also choose Monthly or Yearly) and choose which days of the week you want the playlist to play.
11. Click OK.
3. To begin creating playlist #2 click on the Schedule Tab.
1. Click Add -> Playlist.
2. Provide playlist #2 with a Description (i.e. 9pm-5am, Early Morning, After Hours) and choose a Color to help differentiate it from other playlists.
3. Click the Green Plus sign, browse and select presentation(s), and click Open to add presentations to the playlist.
4. Set the Start Date from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
5. Set the End Date from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
6. Set the Start Time to 5:00:00 AM from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard. 
7. Set the End Time to 11:59:59 PM from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard. 
8. Since the messages are scheduled to run for a certain time each day, then click Recurrence tab.
9. Change the recurrence pattern from None to Weekly (You can also choose Monthly or Yearly) and choose which days of the week you want the playlist to play.
10. Click OK.
11. Click Publish To Display.
12. This will blank the display between 1:00:00 AM and 5:00:00 AM.

Option 3:  Scheduling Content to run overnight or past midnight.
If you need to have recurring content run overnight, then you will have to follow these steps because Recurrence can't be supported if End Time is less than or equal to Start Time.

1. You will be creating two separate playlist to make a message run past the midnight 12:00am timeframe.
2. To begin creating Playlist A click on the Schedule Tab.
   1. Click Add -> Playlist.
   2. Provide Playlist A with a Description (i.e. Playlist A, Late Night A, Overnight PM) and choose a Color to help differentiate it from other playlists.
   3. Click the Green Plus sign, browse and select presentation(s), and click Open to add presentations to the playlist.
   4. Set the Start Date from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
   5. Set the End Date from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
   6. Set the Start Time to your desired time, for our example we will choose 9:00:00 PM.
   7. Set the End Time to 11:59:59 PM.
   8. Since the messages are scheduled to run for a certain time each day, then click Recurrence tab.
   9. Change the recurrence pattern from None to Weekly (You can also choose Monthly or Yearly) and choose which days of the week you want the playlist to play.
   10. Click OK.
3. To begin creating Playlist B click on the Schedule Tab.
1. Click Add -> Playlist.
2. Provide Playlist B with a Description (i.e. Playlist B, Late Night B, Overnight AM) and choose a Color to help differentiate it from other playlists.
3. Click the Green Plus sign, browse and select presentation(s), and click Open to add presentations to the playlist.
4. Set the Start Date from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
5. Set the End Date from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard.
6. Set the Start Time to your desired time, for our example we will choose 12:00:00 AM.
7. Set the End Time to 8:59:59 PM.
8. Since the messages are scheduled to run for a certain time each day, then click Recurrence tab.
9. Change the recurrence pattern from None to Weekly (You can also choose Monthly or Yearly) and choose which days of the week you want the playlist to play.
10. Click OK.
11. Click Publish To Display.

Continuous Playlist Mode:  Allows content to be set up into a single playlist that plays at all times.

Option 1:  Play content continuously 24/7.

1. Continuous Mode is enabled by default when you download the software.
2. If you want to schedule content to play on specific date(s) and time(s) then please follow How do I switch between Continuous Mode and Schedule Mode in Venus 1500 V4?, DD1996807 in order to switch to Scheduled Mode.
3. It is recommended to choose a mode and not switch back and forth between them. When switching from Continuous Mode to Scheduled Mode, the current schedule will be put into a playlist.  However, the schedule will be deleted when switching from Scheduled Mode to Continuous Mode.

Option 2:  Adjust the Hours of Operation. 

1. In order to blank your display or shut it off overnight you can change the hours of operation.
2. Click on the Schedule tab.  
3. Go to Hours of Operation (Under the blue panel with white arrows on the left) and uncheck the All day box.  
• All Day will be checked by default so your display will run continuously 24/7.
4. Set the Start Time for when the display should be turned on from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard. 
5. Select the End Time for when the display should be turned off from the arrow menu or type it in using the keyboard. 
6. Click Publish To Display to save your changes.

An example of this is when the national anthem is being played.