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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!

Does this help?

Your word - "holiday"... Ummm, I'm not familiar with that concept 😞 - and judging by the amount of activity on the forum recently, that seems to be a common theme for many! 😆

Agree. Best I can think of is to use Preview in the Output Window. Then I think the colouring should show which fixtures have data in the cue or which track. This is at the fixture level though, so to see it at parameter level you'd need to select the fixture (not sure if you can in Preview) in order to get the "detail line". The colours are documented here: http://support.zero88.com/Legacy-Products/Legacy-Consoles/Legacy-ZerOS/ORB-XF/1011707591/What-does-the-Output-Window-show.htm

I'm really bad at this (as is evident from the number of times I ask "how do I get this fixture out of the cue" on this forum!)... But it will be along the lines of: Select the Group (to select the fixtures in the group) Update (and hold to get the Options window) SmartTag off Remove OK

If you do Setup+Position or Setup+Effect then you should get an options box that says what the Encoder does and what Shift+Encoder does. The reference fixture (or "zero point") will depend on the fan type - fan middle etc. But you're right, you don't get the values anywhere - although the value above the Encoder is going to be for the "master" or selected fixture.

UK (South West England/South Wales). Bought October 2015, so a relatively early adopter. FLX bare sometimes. More usually FLX+Touch Monitor+Mouse+Keyboard. Eric - to answer your question on "why a mouse", well because from my experience unless you are a 10 year old child, or you have points for fingers, things like the scroll bars or Effects Waveform tab are virtually impossible to use with adult/man-sized fingers. Hence needing to use the mouse! No wings. Theatre. Cue-stack based rather than busked. Musicals, pantomimes, some plays, some concerts. Conventionals (Source 4, Prelude, Minuette, PAR64), LED PAR/flood, LED mover, smoke machines/hazers. Sometimes DMX-controlled props. In flight case, mobile. 3-4 productions per year. Each production 7 or so performances. Amateur hobby, not paid unfortunately! I don't know any but there should be plenty around here... Zero88 head office is less than an hour drive from home! Well documented on this forum when I have! Kevin

(Cough) Yes, I can see the release notes are possibly a bit imprecise... I believe you will only get these on an external monitor -> so not FLX S24 which doesn't have an external monitor port. The release notes should probably say "FLX & FLX S48 now include four desktop layouts on an external monitor...". Sorry 😞

Congratulations! I hope you achieved what you were aiming for! Kevin

I don't believe so. ABTT was the other week. I think they're just hiding this week. Edward is maybe busy at Uni.

Hmm bit of a smoking gun there it seems - existing data works as expected, but the latest version (at least 7.9.5) is not internally populating the database correctly from what the UI is telling us. Especially keen to here back from Z88 now on what their take on this is.

OK, interesting. I wonder if your example is an extension to a similar problem I've been having with recording palettes. What you report looks good. Zero88 chaps need to take a look at your situation too then...

You’re recording too much. You need to not record the things you don’t want to change. So in your colour playback, don’t record position or beamshape. Likewise in your position playback don’t record colour or beamshape. Don’t use Snapshot, that records everything. In Record Options (hold Record button til the form comes up) turn off Snaphot and SmartTag and make sure only the attribute you want recording had the red stripe.

The theory is you just record the tagged parameters. For intensity this should be easy as if you just alter the brightness of a fixture that’s the only thing recorded and all other parameters will track. Make sure in Record Options both Snapshot and SmartTag are off i.e. blue