PSR-800 auto play on power on?

[j2brown]

I'm sure there's an obvious solution to this that I've overlooked, but I'm willing to look foolish in exchange for having the problem solved.

I'm replacing my current feed source scanner with a new PSR-800. The encoding PC can automatically restart on a loss of power. However, I haven't figured out how to get the PSR-800 to auto-recover from a power loss as well. My hope is that with sufficient batteries and a little paying attention this won't be an issue, but I feel like there's a better solution. Is there an "auto play" setting or something that I should be using?

What say you, RadioReference brain trust?

jeff
sdg

 

[DaveIN]

I don't think you can. It needs a press of the power button and doesn't have a control protocol.

 

[j2brown]

That's what my initial thought is. I need to learn more about the alarm feature. Perhaps I can use that to auto start at a certain time, so that in the event of a power loss it will eventually restart without intervention.

jeff
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[DaveIN]

Well that is clock dependent, so I guess as long as battery power holds out it would work, but you would need to know a time to turn on/off. That's not much help neither.

 

[j2brown]

I haven't checked, but if the clock resets to a certain time on power loss I could use that to my advantage by setting auto start for a minute later. That assumes (danger..danger) that the alarm settings aren't lost, though.

jeff
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[Jay911]

When I have removed my batteries to put in fresh ones, the clock resets to 00:00 afterwards.

 

[RadioDaze]

Power it with a USB AC adapter plugged into a UPS. Even a modest UPS should run it for hours.

 

[j2brown]

Yes, that's the obvious route to take, and what I plan on doing with it. However I'm hoping for a layered defense if possible.

jeff
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[DonS]

When I have removed my batteries to put in fresh ones, the clock resets to 00:00 afterwards.

That should only happen if it takes you a few minutes to change the batteries. When I replace the batteries, the clock survives the 60 seconds during which no batteries are installed.

 

[Jay911]

I'll check it tonight when I swap batteries out (sometime in the next hour or two I expect to get the low battery warning).

EDIT: What do you suppose happened literally 3 minutes after I hit "Post"? Today it worked fine, including having to swap several sets of batteries because some evidently self-discharged in my laptop bag.