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I mailed support@zero88.com on Sunday and I've heard nothing. Not even an auto acknowledgement. Is it still valid?

All our distributors have access to spare parts, so it might be worth connecting your local distributor (if they have a service department)

@Jon Hole Is there anywhere outside London? Not only do I hate driving there I'm going to get hit with extra charges.

Hi @Davidmk, White Light is the Vari-Lite service centre, about two hours from you

Where is the nearest place to Milton Keynes where I can get an FLX serviced/repaired? (I have a fader that only goes up to 97% that hasn't been fixed using Servisol.)

User macros is one of the FLX vs FLX S product differentiators. FLX S of course doesn’t have physical UDK buttons which is one common place to put user macros (but they can also of course be triggered from cues).

Ah that's annoying, maybe a future feature?

You should speak to Stage Electrics then as they are listing S24 as 1U and 2U at vastly different prices. https://www.stage-electrics.co.uk/Products/Search?search=FLX s24 Send the enforcement team round!!! (i.e. Tyler 🤣)

I think in Setup it says ‘Channel’ when ‘Fixture number’ is used at other times (verbally, maybe in documentation) because ‘Channel’ there gets confused with ‘DMX Channel’ in discussion and when ‘DMX Address’ is not necessarily intended. Confusing for sure and not all of Z88’s making 😆.

Yes, at the same time the 3-pin became a 5-pin, all new FLX S consoles shipped became 2 Universes. We've not shipped a 1 Universe console for a long time now (of course, our distributors might have had stock).

Absolutely... it's a difficult one. The "official" answer is that DMX has "slots" not "channels"... but we're not going to start using that term. Edward and I discussed at length, many times. We vaguely settled on the terms that a "Fixture" has a "Channel number" and uses a block of "DMX Channels"... but I'm sure there will be inconsistencies dotted around.

Indeed. I had a long discussion with Edward about conflicting and inconsistent terminology around ‘channel’ a couple of years back (when he was doing his vast set of ZerOS videos). Just as you state above.

@kgallen I'm guilty of this too, there's a clash of terminology - I try to say "DMX channel" when I mean that and leave an unqualifed "channel" to mean desk channel.

I thought that which was why I went to the specs to check. They also say 2x5pin XLR so perhaps they've slipped into an alternate reality. 😁

You should read up the manual because as @Davidmk eludes you can already use it. In its most basic form you could put out the same universe on both connectors - I do that with my FLX to send one cable to dimmers/flown LED fixtures and the other to groundrow LED fixtures. But even your 1U S24 you can spread those 512 channels across two or more universes, don’t have to use them all on one universe - although probably that’s the most usual method, but FLX/S doesn’t constrain you to. Manual link: https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/patching/available-channels Note @Jon Hole I think the manual text has an error, I think it should say: ‘The total number of used channels across the 64 universes must not exceed the number of ->channels<- your console is licensed to output.’

FLX S doesn’t allow user macros and no UDKs either to put one on. But good lateral thought!

yes it is one of the first versions when the single-universe version was also in the catalogue, but it was already set up with two connectors. so with release 8 the second port should also open?

Woo congrats! I wonder if you could setup a macro to use for going forwards and back a cue? I mainly use a fullsize FLX so probably not the best help haha

It did work. Programmed the show on my FLX with syntax bish-bash-bosh no problem. Loaded the showfile into their S24, worked like a charm. Sat with the op last night during the dress rehearsal, he drove, I stood by to help. He made a decent fist of it given it was his first time ever. Jumped a few cues - double tapped GO or was a bit eager. Was a bit of a pain going back a cue or two as S24 doesn’t have arrow keys and no USB keyboard attached. I set shift-go as pause but the ‘go back’ doesn’t work unless you’re running a cue, pause then step back. Chap kept going into Z screen as wasn’t using that button as a shift key. In the end I suggested he use the touch screen carefully to back step cues or bring in a keyboard. Let’s see if the phone rings later in the week… ‘Hello… he hasn’t turned up, can you…’ Thanks to @Davidmk and @Jon Hole for help and support on this endeavour.

@Davidmk you may well be right but I think default FLX S24 come as 1U/512 unless they specifically bought the 2U version (or FLX S48). Maybe that changed over time (like the 3-pin became a 5-pin) but Stage Electrics still list a 1U FLX S24.

From the online specs for S24... Cost effective 24 fader console with support for 1024 channels of control And... 2 x 5-Pin DMX ports... So you should already have two universes worth of DMX channels and only need to make sure they are setup two output to the two DMX outputs on the back of the desk (or to the ArtNet equivalent). Check the manual here. As @kgallen says, the available channels and fixtures on FLX Sxx will be doubled anyway when Zeros v8.0.0 is released. This is in Beta test at the moment so it shouldn't be too long before it is released. The release notes for v8 state... All FLX S24 & FLX S48 consoles have been upgraded to 2048 channels ("four universes") free of charge. All full size FLX consoles & ZerOS Servers have been upgraded to 4096 channels ("eight universes") free of charge. (FLX consoles and ZerOS Servers which are licenced for more than 4096 channels will retain their higher licence). Note that FLX desks are restricted by channels, not universes so, if you have enough channels for your fixtures but want a second universe for convenience then all you need to do is go into setup and assign universe 2 to the 2nd DMX output or to ArtNet if you have that.

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Yes but wait for ZerOS 8.0 to come out (few weeks maybe) when your S24 will become 4 universe for free. As announced here:

Select fixtures. Make the colour however you want. You could start with an existing palette then modify with the encoder wheels. Then RECORD and touch an empty palette location on the Colour screen. Same process for position, beam, shape (but on those generally parameters are separate). This is in the manual. https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/palettes/recording-palettes @van den abbeele Eric can help you with a French manual.

Hi, is it possible to upgrade from one to two universe on a flx s24? thank you P.