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Hi Edward. Ok thanks. What’s the difference here to what I’ve been doing - is that typing the Effect palette number rather than tapping the screen? So is this a workaround for a bug and is there a reference number? Thanks, Kevin

Hi Edward, Bump. Did you ever get through investigating this? Seems pretty fundamental functionality that isn't working as expected! Kevin

PhantomZerOS 7.9.5 MD.zip from here:

But if the sunstrip can be patched as multiple fixtures then you can apply effects across the cells as if they were individual devices. This has been asked many times on this forum so with a bit of a search you'll probably find more details. example:

Look in the FLX forum.

Here you go. This has 3 options so you can mix and match: 6ch, 12ch, 24ch versions. Each has a virtual intensity. So if you use the 24ch version then there is one virtual intensity to scale all 24 channels. You could however patch 4 fixtures each of the 6ch version then you would have a "master" intensity control for each 6ch group. Mix and match as you like. The actual dimmers are under Beamshape. The virtual dimmer (the one intensity channel) defaults to 255 so SmartTag should work ok for you. Enjoy! Kevin Tega_Dimmer6_12_24.ift

I'm not sure I understand the point of this much - can only presume you have more than 24 non-generics. What I think you need to create as a fixture definition will have 24 beamshape 'dimmer channels' plus one intensity channel as a virtual intensity to scale those 24 beam shape channels. This is because a fixture can only have one true intensity channel so you can't create one fixture with 24 intensities. I'll have a go at building one for you... one moment...

Speed override. Shift+unprogrammed playback button then select Speed Override.

Thanks Jon. That's good to hear. However as I've commented to Edward before, I'm still not clear why you want to hard-separate current and legacy products. Users don't know or care what their product fits under and your product line moves on so this implies you need to keep reshuffling the website to move stuff over - I'm not clear who gains from such partitioning? The user has to search multiple places and you have to keep moving stuff. Then as now we find the good current stuff has wandered off into the legacy section. Sure, on a product page mark it in big flashing words at the top that it's a discontinued product but why artificially separate in the support portal? More appropriate partitiioning is consoles, dimmers etc like it is on the Zero88 front page. If you must "separate" them maybe have the list like your example above but have "Consoles <current list> <blank line> <legacy list>" then the 40 odd don't crowd your current crown jewels but there is not a "separate section". Umm ok, having had a look at the Beta site, it is looking nice and much more usable. Much less fussy than what you showed me back in April... I'd be interested to see how quickly I can get to the critical support articles when I'm on a phone with a weak 3G connection. Can this be accommodated at all by loading the flash graphics last? Cheers, Kevin ps Couldn't see a link in the ZerOS Beta Forum, is it a different Beta forum? Ah it's that thread a few down rather than a new one. Got it. pps Should we not ask about the updated FLX manuals promised in May? 😋

In over 10 years of using the Fat Frog I never knew the reason for the Reset DMX option. Sure I triggered it a couple of times for the duck of it, but I never had a real reason for it! If you have inherited the desk I'd just be sure to install 10.12 software on it (the latest). This can be downloaded from this site, put onto a floppy and on power cycling the desk with this floppy in the desk should upgrade. Actually prior to doing this, replace the internal battery. 10.12: https://eaton.nanorep.co/storage/nr1/kb/2AD62C9/3879A76B/3A210339/31/FrogOS v10.12.zip Battery: (Jeez, Edward those "Download" and "Support" sections are just truly awful. Is it ever going to get sorted into an accessible resource? You can't find anything in the damn area. Casual visitors have no chance. As I've said many times before - I know what I'm looking for and I still have to hunt around - and I know there is stuff under there somewhere. Frog-wise it's just a jumble and ZerOS-wise half of the useful stuff for FLX is under the "Legacy" Orb/XF sections.)

Rigo - what have you lost? Have you lost the programming of your show? If so you can only recover it if you have previously saved to floppy disk which you can reload from. Maybe you can list exactly what you did to "reset" - tell us which menu items you used. Kevin

As Edward has confirmed for us I don't believe so on FLX. With Frog range, a flat battery caused all sorts of misbehaviour. As a result I asked about the battery in the FLX soon after I bought it, and Jon said that the battery was only there for the RTC and not related to retaining show data in RAM before it's copied to some non-volatile storage.

Cheers Olly. I hope you get the desk sorted quickly. Don't envy you having to drop back to Jester. I'd have to drop back to Fat Frog and that would be no easy move these days with so much LED and relying on move on dark so much! Kevin

Eeeekkk! Sorry I'm not closer otherwise I'd try to help out! Out of interest, how do you get in to FLX test mode? I feel I should already know this!

In a nutshell, I turned my FLX on to do some more pre-show setup - it had been fine the night before, closed down ok - no front panel LEDs, no DMX output, but buttons and internal screen working. A power cycle did not help, I had to do a factory reset. I was panicing big time...! For the info Edward is after you need to tap some other tab on that screen - not sure if it's System Information, Console or Events - something like that!

I had something similar with 7.9.4. Does my report here look like what you experienced? In my case a desk reboot didn't help - I had to do a Factory Reset. (My post is in the Beta Test Forum, not sure if you can see that post. However my comments relate to 7.9.4 production software.)

Different name is all I know. There have been a number of enhancement requests for this to be improved, including from me, as I have the same gripe.

First one is Smart Tag. You’re doing the right thing by selecting No Effect in the next cue but it’s not being recorded because it has zero intensity so Smart Tag ignores it (yes very annoying). I think if you make the No Effect change then press Update and hold briefly you will get up the options box then tap Smart Tag so it goes blue. You should see some parameter boxes have red stripes and Tagged Fixtures is red. If you ok the Update then you should have recorded the change. Not sure about your second question - mine fade as other fixtures. Worth checking your fader is an intensity channel - if it’s a traditional mover rather than an LED maybe the shutter is snapping closed due to a beamshape setting?

👍 😊 Maybe the Option screen is different on Solution to what I get on FLX (but then again I'm not at the desk now, so I was remembering/guessing a bit too!).

SETUP+Playback Button change Release on Lower to off/disabled.

I think the "usual" way to do this would be to have MIDI timecode information linked to the audio track and the audio player squirts out the audio to the PA and the MIDI timecode to the Lighting Desk which has cues that are triggered on MIDI timecode event. However I've never done this, but I'm sure plenty of people have!

Afx, Did you know you can create your own fixture definitions using this Windows tool? Much quicker if you are in a hurry - you can always get the Zero88 guys to build a "proper" one and then you can compare-and-contrast theirs to yours so you can learn the "standard" way. https://zero88.com/library#tools Edward, It would be good to have a KB article on the key points for building a standard fixture definition - like which Special to select, what to name Colour Wheels ("Color1"), what the defaults for RGBWAUV should be (ie R=G=B=255, others=0) etc etc. Even just a list would be a good reference. Also tips like handling fixtures with multiple "lamps", like the Combi Spot you built for me the other month which had wash and spot elements, where you used a virtual dimmer to scale the separate fixture dimmers under beamshape for wash and spot.

Oh, the old "I just changed the battery but magically the DIP switch settings (on the fader PCBs nowhere near the main-board PCB) got changed" issue. DIP switches are hard enough to change when you deliberately want to change them, I've never figured how the DIP switches inside Frog consoles get accidentally changed and I've done the battery inside mine 4 or 5 times... 😏 Anyway, glad you're sorted!

Download the ZerOS OS Creator USB - v7.9.5 17-5-2019 MD.zip file to your PC, unzip it and copy to the root of a USB stick. Then Setup->Load and load the new software like you'd load a showfile.

Good tip using HOME to tag all parameters -> one for a knowledgebase and User Manual FAQ please as it's guaranteed by next week I won't be able to find this thread when I'm looking for this top-tip!