[Trip on betapack 4]

Not sure how RCBOs, even on the mains side of the triacs, will play with dimming. I realise you might be talking about the hot power sockets but the MCB is common on the channel. 
 

I doubt Zero88 would  support this modification to their product (if nothing else it would invalidate the formal product qualification they have to do for CE/UKCA marking).

[Possible hardware issue, Fader 5 affecting fader 19]

...and it's worth adding (although this post might get deleted!), that if you are in the UK south west or South Wales area, Keith can be very obliging if you're not looking for a whole-board rebuild, even outside of the warranty period... Sorry if I overstepped the mark there, but I think it's highly commendable that Zero88 hardware support doesn't actually stop at the 3 year anniversary if you ask nicely. I have personal experience of this excellent service (thanks Keith and Edward!) - my FLX will be '7' this year. (Hopefully the big bosses aren't reading...)

[Possible hardware issue, Fader 5 affecting fader 19]

8 hours ago, keredyelesob said:

Hi. I ended up replacing the faulty fader on the pcb (only attempt if you are handy with a soldering iron,  the pcb tracks are very fine). I found the faulty fader by putting the desk in test mode. I noticed fader 19 was not hitting 0 this was causing the erroneous behaviour with the other faders. If your getting the same issue first try cleaning the faders with something like ELECTROLUBE  EML200F before swapping out faders. Cleaning has worked in the past for my other desk. Hope this helps.

Hi Derek!
That’s a shame you had to replace the fader. Did you feel at risk of lifting the pads or tracks when you did this? Is there any feedback to give to Zero88 regards the robustness of the pads and traces in respect of service operations like this? I.e. is there enough (but not too much) pad and track mass on the PCB design around the fader pins?

[What would you like to see in ZerOS?]

7 hours ago, Sven76 said:

I can't remember to see this in this wishlist here... 😜

"Launched in the next month or two" said Jon.

Ah, we're back to the old project plan 🤣

So there's time there to sneak in some other stuff to keep the rest of us quiet while he deals with the new requests from the Signify suits upstairs. And anyway we've 7.11 to play with for a while - Jon cunningly slipped that one out in double-quick time to keep us occupied whilst he was tinkering on the 7.12 stuff! 😝👍

[What would you like to see in ZerOS?]

Does that mean if we voted for that option we get a substitute vote to allocate to one of the remaining options?

[Audio cue control solutions]

Thanks Edward! The key for me is the sound source is designed to be controlled/triggered (like a dimmer or luminaire) whereas the lighting desk (FLX) is designed to be a controllER. So being able to generate control actions from the FLX (by outputting MIDI rather than just receiving MIDI) makes network topology sense to me. FLX doesn’t have any other ‘auxiliary’ control outputs. 

[Audio cue control solutions]

I have this underlying requirement too (or maybe I like tinkering!) where I would like to trigger my sound cues from lighting cues. At the moment I too press Go on my FLX and Play on one of my Sony MDS-E12 minidisc decks. 
 

My solution is to build a DMX interface to ‘contact closure’ (or possibly RS232 commands if I want to get fancy), but it would be nice to take MIDI from the FLX instead 🙂

Need to tick the appropriate box in the ‘new features’ list for FLX in the General Discussion section!

[Upgrade version question - Light names question]

4 hours ago, Edward Z88 said:

the Groups window was resized to the top quarter, making it 5 tiles wide to match the internal Groups window.

Which I prefer since a "magic sheet" set up on the internal screen is organised the same on the external screen. For the few ZerOS versions where the Groups pane was double width, it was a real "pane" (sic.)...

[FLX-s 3 fader rgb]

5 hours ago, phosphene said:

Thanks Edward.    Bring back Sirius 250.... or XLS!

Cliff

There is no comparison to FLX-S. Maybe you need to play with the desk a bit more and adapt your programming style from fader-per-channel mindset to using for example the colour palettes and mood boards, groups and layered playbacks?

Good luck! Yes I'm still learning too!

[FLX-s 3 fader rgb]

https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/playing-back-cues/rgb-colour-mixing-on-playbacks

Make sure you follow the instructions exactly. If you accidentally adjust something you didn't mean to then that parameter will get "tagged" and what you record to the playback won't be what you intend and won't work properly for what you require. If you mess up the sequence, easiest to delete the playback and start again.

[Display scroll and reset]

2 hours ago, AndyJM said:

When recording a show on Master playback, it's really frustrating that with each new cue the display goes back to the  start.

So when I've just recorded LX50 and want to check it runs correctly from 48 onwards, I can't seem to just go back one or two cues but have to scroll the screen from right back at the beginning.

I agree. I’ve been asking about this for some years. I have the same frustration when programming a sequential (theatre) stack. 

[Ma console se fige]

53 minutes ago, Davidmk said:

I should point out that I have a full size FLX as well

And I don't have router

Ditto, no networking on mine either. My FLX is only ever attached to a USB keyboard and mouse, touchscreen monitor (USB+DVI-D) and lighting network via DMX outputs. And a USB stick and desk light.

[Ma console se fige]

I have certainly had my (full size) FLX freeze both in a show and after having sat idle for a while. This was on earlier ZOS versions (and all were reported here). I don’t have enough hours experience in the last couple of years and ZOS versions to know if this is still the situation.

I had concerns at the time that there was an underlying hardware issue (signal timing or signal integrity), since my FLX is a very early build, but if this phenomena is also seen on the FLX S range then maybe the pendulum swings to more of a software problem than hardware. 

[Cant turn off color fading]

Colour fade time in the cue is non zero. It defaults to 3 seconds. 

[Lanterns continue to glow when off.]

Sounds like dimmer preheat slightly too high assuming it’s tungsten lamps you’re seeing?

If LED, you can confirm on the DMX Output window (under the Z key) that the desk is outputting 0 on the intensity channels. 

[UV Programming Issue]

Basically Keith means you have too much information programmed into each of the two playbacks.

i.e. you have fixture information recorded in Playback 21 that overrides something in Playback 22 and vise versa. It sounds like you have some fixture data recorded in each that does not show with that playback activated alone.

My suggestion would be to delete both playbacks, clear the programmer (Clear-Clear) then set the fixtures for Playback 21 and record to 21, then Clear-Clear again, set the fixtures required then record Playback 22. In each case after the clear-clear you should only modify the attributes you want to record, so set the intensity and set the colour. Don't fiddle with anything else not required otherwise you will tag other attributes that will thus get recorded and your recording won't be "clean" which sounds like the issue you originally had.

This is assuming you're using Smart Tag.

If you are not then you can be more clinical by ensuring you only manually Tag the attributes you require in each Playback.

Hope that makes sense. I think if you read Keith's reply a few times it will make some sense, but in order to repair the mal-formed Playbacks in this situtation, it's probably easier to delete them and start again.

[all dimmer chanels are flickering as soon as FLX-S48 desk is connected.]

That seems quite a high resistance for a cable. Also that the differential pair on pins 2 and 3 have very different resistances looks very suspicious. A thorough check of the cable and connectors/termination is needed. 

[ZerOS Library 3.0 Released]

Eric - battery on FLX : only for the real time clock I understand, not for show data. 

[House Lights Up on UDK Not Being Recorded Elsewhere]

This is a double post (maybe it wasn’t deliberate, but please don’t 😉).

[Are Lighting States on UDKs Included When Recording Playbacks]

It will by default if you’re using Smart Tag.

The house lights question has come up on the forum a few times recently, I’m not sure it should be a big issue. 

[What would you like to see in ZerOS?]

Adding the photo I wanted to add earlier now the Forum Gods have given me space to fill again 😆

Being able to add header comments/lines within the cue stack, like this ‘Act 1’ header seen on an ETC console:

 

(that’s ‘all’ - you clever folk can argue the tracking thing! 🤣)

[What would you like to see in ZerOS?]

Being able to add header comments/lines within the cue stack, like this ‘Act 1’ header seen on an ETC console:

(Jon - can I have some more ‘space’? Forum says I’ve used up all of my attachment space and to use Manage Attachments but when I try that from My Account it says Access Forbidden).

[How to shutdown a FLX]

There is no power-down procedure. Just turn it off. FLX has an on/off switch at the back. FLX-S I think you have to unplug.

You won't lose anything 😉

[Black plastic cover on the back]

Probably an option like SMPTE. 

[FLXS Touch Screen Monitors]

14 minutes ago, delfine said:

kgallen ? Tu t’en sers en tactile malgré tout de ton écran ?

I would like to, but the touch is too slow for anything except basic operations and it is not multi-touch.

However it is 17" (43cm) screen which suits my work position. The capacitive screens available are much larger (22", 56cm) and such a screen is too large to fit my workspace.

So for most touch operations I rely on the FLX internal touch screen.

J'aimerais bien, mais le toucher est trop lent pour autre chose que les opérations de base et ce n'est pas multi-touch.

Cependant c'est un écran de 17" (43cm) qui convient à ma position de travail. Les écrans capacitifs disponibles sont beaucoup plus grands (22", 56cm) et un tel écran est trop grand pour s'adapter à mon espace de travail.

Donc, pour la plupart des opérations tactiles, je m'appuie sur l'écran tactile interne FLX.

At the time of purchase I too did not understand the different screen types.

Au moment de l'achat, je ne comprenais pas non plus les différents types d'écran.