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I believe you’re correct. I think MIDI and OSC can only trigger pre programmed cues. Others will know better than me though.

Well the problem with OSC is, from the commands provided in this documentation file it appears to me as if it can only receive these: Cues Playbacks Macros, Grandmaster & Blackout It could be that I just overlooked the file but on the FLX S24 OSC does not seem to have individual colour control that is not pre-programmed

OSC or MIDI would be the usual remote control methods. Others on here have experience of these and will no doubt be along shortly (I have no experience of using them). You could search the Forum for OSC, there are quite a few detailed threads. User @Davidmk has a lot of OSC experience so you could look at posts by him in the FLX/FLX-S and Solution forums. examples:

Hi, I was just in general interested how the whole ZerOS and the remote apps etc. work together and wether I could remotely for example via my own "code" send data / packets to change colours, intensity etc. So I looked into that a bit but I was wondering if there is a easier method to do so. I thought maybe the Monitor App has an easy API to reverse Engineer but from what I’ve observed when inspecting network traffic between the ZerOS Monitor App and the FLX: The Monitor app doesn’t appear to have it's own UI, as it's just displaying the raw image stream sent from the console (please correct me if I’m mistaken). The FLX sends this UI as raw image data, and in return, the app sends mouse coordinates (x, y) and state changes (down, up, move) back to the console, which then updates the display. In theory, it looks like I could send raw hex strings (e.g. "1 enter @100 enter") but I really hope theres an easier way I overlooked. So my main question is: Is there an easier or officially supported way to remotely control the FLX (S24) to change colours or intensity via the standard DMX universe — ideally by sending packets directly over Ethernet from custom code? I’ve checked out a few options, but they don’t seem to fit: Triggers: Only seem to fire cues/playbacks, not direct channel control. KiNET: Doesn’t appear compatible with my setup. Philips Hue: Works only with Hue devices, as far as I can tell. Any advice or insight would be really appreciated! Thanks in advance!

No problem, good luck!

Sounds like you might have a corrupt show file. I've had these sorted out by support in the (pre Vari-Lite) past. Might be worth asking them if they can check it for you.

There is a sort of backspace key (<-) on the keypad that removes the last thing in the command line which you can use to remove things until it stops being red. A common hiccup is pressing one of the colour/beam/shape/position/effect keys which makes it think its going to get a pallette number next and then entering something that's not a pallette number. Done that a few times, never quite sure exactly where I went wrong.

There is a ladder to a high perch where I should be able to see what make/model the nearest wash is and they are probably all the same. I'll see if the tester can sniff out the RDM and failing that work it out the hard way. Thanks for your comment though!

It had been set to flash, rather than Go(Fade). I will set back after current show is finished. We have been running the show on one of the sub-masters which works fine. Thanks for the hint.

Usually the command line goes red if you've entered invalid syntax, or tried to exceed the allowed parameters. Is something similar happening when you try to save and/or record? Have you attempted to hit "Clear" only once before saving so the command line is empty? Hope these help!

Hi I've been using our FLX for 3 years now in our small rural theatre. We have live bands, plays, panto, dance shows, comedians - a wide variety of shows, so am probably a reasonably competent user. Occasionally, when I go to save a new cue, update an edited cue or even save or update a position palette, the command line text turns to red and it will not save the cue or edit. The only way to move forward is to "Clear" and re-create the cue/update/palette or edit all over again and it will usually save/update the 2nd time around. As you can probably imagine, this is frustrating and time-consuming, especially when busy plotting a big show on a tight schedule and it's not always easy to re-create the lighting state you've just spent 10 minutes building! The issue seems to happen more often with more complex lighting states involving movers (we use Chauvet Intimidator Hybrid 140SRs) but it also happens at other times and seems to be happening more frequently now. I suspect the issue may be related to memory in the desk. The desk fails the FeRAM test but, from other posts on here, it seems this is nothing to worry about. Has anybody encountered this issue before? Any thoughts, ideas, help, greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. Mike - Regal Tenbury Wells, UK

Amazing thank you

There’s the USB Creator flow for FLX (not FLX-S) console recovery: https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/software-updates/zeros-usb-creator

Hi, Is it posssible to install fresh software onto a flx from usb rather than from within setup? My flx kept freezing due to bugs and now when I reboot it goes through the sequence fine and the keys work etc but as soon as the show loads it freezes again. Thanks

Hi, really depends on the kit you've got in the venue. If it would be RDM compliant then maybe go for that (I haven't had great experiences with the FLX's), but otherwise reverse engineering may be the way to go. Is there no chance of getting to the rig?

I'm taking an FLX-S into a new venue (for me) which has (or had) 48 ways of dimming, some channels of which have been modified to hard power a couple of dozen RGBW washes, brand currently unknown. I have the choice of reverse engineering the patch using my DMX-Cat (and 96 faders on the desk) or throwing caution to the wind and turning on RDM, however I am mildly paranoid about munging the settings and not readily being able to restore them afterwards. I've played with RDM in my main venue with an FLX but found it somewhat problematic, especially with flickering on cheap fixtures. Am I right to be cautious?

We have noticed continuing occasional freezes on 8.0 along with some playbacks going to full unexpectedly, faders stuck on blue background even with clear all and some fixtures picking up wrong defaults. This is all from an operator who doesn't touch the record/update/setup areas at all, just triggering playbacks. I wasted an hour trying to sort out six backcloth LEDs which are normally default blue/zero but had become the opposite default, i.e. red/green/white/full. There are definitely some obscure data corruption issues going on. (This was resolved by a factory reset and reload of the showfile, which had been saved at the start of the day with mixed up defaults showing onstage). If I could reliably duplicate the sequence I would send it in but otherwise Z88 will be chasing shadows...

Thanks I will get this checked.

As a first check, hold SETUP and press the playback GO button. Make sure that the settings are like this:

The lighting designer on our next production has found that whilst he can programme cues into the master playback when he tries to play the stack it will not move beyond the first cue. It is possible to select another cue in the stack, take the master fader down and then up and that cue is selected. In practice not a viable way to run a production. Use of the space bar on the keyboard doesn't work either. All was fine on the last production but something has changed. We can still programme a stack on any of the other sub-masters and these seem to run as they should. Any suggestions on what could be causing this problem with the master playback?

Thank you, that's brilliant to see that there will be a new ZerOS build soon. I look forward to it!

Great to hear! Looking forward to hearing more about the beta release in the coming weeks! 😃

Hi Scottydog75, Apologies for the delay in response. The software team are in the process of finishing the next beta build for ZerOS. This should be released for testing on the forum within the next couple of weeks. Kind Regards

Ah perfect, thank you ! Forgot you could trigger cue stacks.

You create a chase on a fresh playback. Then you trigger and release that chase playback from cues in your main cue stack. To be able to get at states in your chase you use SHIFT-Playback GO to get to the state you want to edit without the chase running on. Then you edit the state using UPDATE as you would any other cue. https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/chases