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If you really think this is correlated to start/end of show I would have a good think about what electrical disturbances could be happening in the venue. Tea urns, house lights, that sort of thing. I got into the habit of always using a small computer UPS with my lighting (and sound) desk just to cover those brown-out situations that can occur on electrical systems and cause computer-based devices to crash or restart.

Ah, sad news I must have missed. I'll try White light. Thanks S.

So idk what to do. I have a FLX S24 and have used it for a while now. It has started to have an error where the desk seams to “reset” without doing anything. This causes the lights to lose their DMX and enter their standby modes (some of them start moving randomly and quickly changing colours, most just turn off) and then after less than a second it comes back. It isn’t a DMX splinter issue as it happens across both universes. The desk doesn’t seam to change. And it is happening move frequently mostly when the audience is leaving and entering which is becoming more of an issue. Any help will be appreciated. I can send more details if required

I’m sorry, Ian unexpectedly passed away a couple of years back. I think your only call is someone like White Light (who I believe had his spares stock).

Is @iank99 still around and servicing Zero88 desks? I have a Solution desk that needs some tlc - sticky faders, unreliable wheels. If not, are there any up-to-date recommendations for who to contact? Cheers, Simon

There is an oddity with the FLX grand master (and inhibit masters) in that they do not take effect until they have been taken to full from zero. If you turn on an FLX with the master physically at full then the first time you bring it down nothing happens. Pull it down to zero, put it back to full and it will work. If the fader needs attention (doesn't go to FF in test mode) it will never work (because you can't take it to full). Not saying this is the problem here but you do need to eliminate it.

@RJP / @DMH this looks like an FLX query rather than FLX S. Would you be able to move to the FLX forum? Thanks.

Hello is your Grand Master Fader set to Grand Master? (Hold Setup - press Blackout Button - tab Grand Master in the Fader Function)

"FLX running recent ZerOS update. Grand Master fader has no effect on channel faders in Channels mode. Previously used Grand Master to blackout all channels during a show. Individual channel faders work correctly. Playback faders also not responding to Master fader. Has Grand Master behaviour in Channels mode changed in a recent update? How do I restore this functionality?"

I have been doing what you describe. It does work for me but there are limitations. The first is that you cannot separate speed and size. When you use the fader to control FX it has to control both speed and size. The second is that for most of the faders travel you don't get a visible effect just a messy mixture of colours until the fader reaches about 75% and the speed/size has to be adjusted in the last 25% I don't use colour mixing faders though - my colours are set by a playback with a cue for each colour and I use OSC to trigger the cue for the colour I want.

Hi Archie, That's correct - the ZerOS Startup Tool only allows ZerOS .exe installers to be loaded. If you have tried various USB drives of different sizes, each formatted with ZerOS 7.8.2.39, and you have tried different USB ports, but the console is refusing to boot into the installer, it may be worth checking the BIOS is configured correctly. From memory, these instructions for Orb will also apply to Frog 2... Allowing-Orb-&-OrbXF-consoles-to-install-software-from-a-bootable-USB-drive.pdf Edward

Hi Edward, Thank you for your reply, I really appreciate it. That probably explains why I can't get into it. I was looking for the Startup Tool to future-proof the desk in case I need to do a fresh software install to recover it as the desk currently isn't picking up any bootable USB sticks (have tried multiple, including the MBR method), neither is it picking up the software CD supplied with the desk. Since it was introduced for FLX S, am I correct in thinking it will only accept .exe upgrade files instead of a whole bootable USB? Many thanks, Archie

Hey, I've been trying to solve this problem for a while - I've checked as many different forums posts as I could find to no avail. I'm using an FLX S48 console, with a bunch of different Tungsten and LED lights for a venue I work at. The end result I'm hoping for is a playback fader that can fade a rainbow colour effect in and out over the top of various other colours. For instance, I'll have a Blue wash on stage, and I want to fade that into a blue tinted rainbow effect, and then keep the moving colour effect but change the tint to red or green or whatever colour. I've tried a bunch of different methods with mixed results, but finally managed to get something close to what I wanted. I have some Playbacks with various colours - and then what I've been calling my Rainbow Fader. On this fader I've saved every LED with a Rainbow Effect at the speed/offset I want, but not recording the intensity; and with the colour values set to 0/ignored instead of the default 127. I've also set the fader to control Effect. Now, when I have the Rainbow Fader up, then fade in another colour like blue on a different playback, it fades into a nice blue-ish rainbow effect. Very nice, was what I was hoping for. The slight problem is doing it the other way around. If I have the colour up already and fade in the Rainbow Fader, it does indeed fade into the effect - but it also fades in the recorded Effect Speed, meaning if I fade it up fast, the colours rapidly shift around all over the place as it alters the effect speed really fast until it reached the recorded value. I've sort of been able to work around this by putting in a Raise/Lower time of like, 5 seconds. It helps smooth the effect speed transition, but is a bit limiting. What I was hoping for was to be able to control the Effect Size on the fader, but keep the Effect Speed the same the whole time. I've tried using stuff like the Speed Override, but either I'm not doing it correctly or it doesn't seem to work. I thought it would work like controlling the individual colour values on playback faders - where you can select/de-select the RGB values before recording, just with the Effect Parameters instead (Intensity, Speed, Size, Offset) I can also imagine other scenarios where this could be useful - maybe you have a moving head effect where you want the size to stay consistent - but be able to control the speed on a fader. Or maybe you want the speed/size to stay the same and control the offset on a fader. Would anyone know if there's a way of achieving something like the effect I'm hoping for, or perhaps a way of doing something like I described? Any helps would be appreciated. Thanks

Hi Archie, Why do you need to access this? The ZerOS Start-Up Tool was introduced in ZerOS 7.9, primarily to allow FLX S consoles to be recovered, as these do not support bootable drives. The Start-Up Tool was not present in ZerOS 7.8. Edward

visiting company require ADJ Jolt 300 (10 channel) to be configured. What can be used from available descriptions?

No worries, great to hear.

Hi Archie Thanks for your response, all understood

Not used it yet as I was in final stages before show was due to start when it came out. I plan on trying it for next one though in a few weeks.

I'd recommend using ZerOS 8.0.1 for your next show as I believe ZOS-12594 is the bug fix for the crashing issue in ZerOS 8.0.0. ZerOS 8.0.1 also fixes the issue when referencing a non-existent palette (ZOS-12752) using syntax (e.g. COLOUR 40 ENTER where Colour Palette 40 does not exist), previously this would crash the desk. This is actually quite useful if you accidentally hit the wrong key while trying to reference a palette (therefore entering the incorrect palette number, accidentally being one that doesn't exist), and then you have to restart the whole desk to gain control again.

Anyone used 8.0.1 in anger yet and noted any improved 'up-time' when compared to fairly regular crashes on 8.0.0? Trying to plan what version to program my next show on! Cheers

I know , I read this page but my conclusion is transmitters doesn't work together !!!

Hi, See this Manual page, scroll down to "Transmission". Does that help? https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/setup/universes/dmx-2

Hello, Question for FLXS24: I have two transmiters HF , one is Lumen radio Luna WDMX , the other is Electroconcept HF. With Luna the ideal signal DMX is "Continu" but with Electroconcept HF is "Delta". I have micro signal cuts in "Continu" with my Electroconcept , why ?? coupure ligth02.MOV

Hello @alg, Move on Dark can be enabled via entering your playback's settings (hold SETUP + Tap Playback's button) -> Move on Dark -> Enabled. The 'General', 'Chase', 'Raise and Lower' etc. that you see along the top are tabs to access groupings of playback settings, they aren't buttons to adjust actual settings. By default, when opening a playback's settings window, 'General' will always be the first tab selected (hence you see General every time you open the window), as they are general playback settings which aren't necessarily specific to other tabs such as 'Raise and Lower' or 'Chase'. If you're perhaps thinking of playback defaults found in SETUP -> Defaults -> Playback Defaults, these settings will only be applied to newly created playbacks and will not change existing ones. (D:3.0) in a fade time cell of a cue indicates a delay, with the time before it (0.0 in your case) indicating the actual fade time. If a cue had "5.0 (D:2.0)" in the "Up" cell, when going into that cue the console would delay executing the fade for fading up lights in that cue for two seconds, then proceed with the five second fade. This can be useful in cases for example where you don't want a moving light to come up until it has actually snapped into its position to prevent seeing it swoosh across stage during an intensity fade up or for staggering fades. Hope this helps, if you have any other questions please don't hesitate to ask. Archie

I have been plotting a show and found that I couldn't select "Move on Dark". It appear that at some point earlier the playback setting had been set to "General". Having plotted the show found that I needed Move on Dark but each time I made the change in Playback Defaults and saving it and closing defaults, the next time I looked in Playback Defaults it had been changed back to "General"! Any ideas why I can't select Move on Dark after plotting a show? I have also had a problem with another, the Colour fade time default, this had been set to 3 sec. Again after plotting I found that I needed to change the time to 0 secs. This changed on the Q stack page but had (D3.0) on the Q line as well as 0.0. It appears that the default was held and was overriding the 0.0 setting I had entered. To get the fade to work as I wanted I had to deleted the Q and reprogramme it with the Colour fade time as 0.0. The (D 3.0) was removed and the fade working correctly. Again any ideas on what was happening here. I'm not sure if these are related problems or separate