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Hello Paul,

You could use the "conditional actions" to invoke the batchfile, and 
only set a flag (variable) in the "periodic actions". The "conditional 
actions" are quite versatile (you have timers there, etc etc) but 
compared to a real scripting language, a bit tedious to configure.

Details at
    www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/speclab/perisced.htm#cond_actions

A timer can be started anywhere (also in the "periodic actions"), and 
the "conditional actions" can be used to do whatever you like when the 
timer expires. There are twenty different timers that may run at the 
same time, so you could use one timer to wait a few seconds before 
uploading lf1.jpg, and some other time before uploading lf2.jpg.

The timers are explained in the same document linked above, in the 
chapter about the conditional actions.

All the best,
   Wolf DL4YHF .


On 06.11.2018 11:58, N1BUG wrote:
> Hi LF,
>
> I am trying to set up two SpecLab instances as grabbers to monitor
> the EU and NA LF QRSS windows, but I am having some problems with
> FTP upload.
>
> Either SpecLab instance works fine by itself, calling ftp_up.bat
> with either lf1.jpg or lf2.jpg parameter. But when I run two
> instances, one using lf1.jpg, the other using lf2.jpg there are
> problems related to both trying to run ftp_up.bat at the same time.
> This creates random behavior, many FTP errors and usually only one
> file makes it to the FTP server.
>
> I would like to have both SpecLab instances upload every 10 or 15
> minutes but I am not sure how to get around this problem. I could
> rewrite ftp_up. bat to hard code the two file names and upload both
> in one operation. This solves the log out of FTP server but not able
> to log back in quickly enough. But it doesn't solve the problem of
> both SpecLab instances trying to call ftp_up.bat at the same time. I
> thought about having just one SpecLab instance calling ftp_up.bat
> but I think this doesn't guarantee the other instance has yet
> created the .jpg file to upload.
>
> Any ideas how to do this properly? Is there any way to insert a
> delay of some seconds in the SpecLab periodic actions? Such as...
>
> capture lf2.jpg
> wait for some seconds
> call ftp_up bat
>
> ??
>
> I will have some other questions about optimizing SpecLab parameters
> for performance later. :)
>
> 73,
> Paul
>