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  2. Moving Lights in Playbacks

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    15 hours ago, Guest Jon Collins said:

    Thanks... Hmmm, sort of works. If the PB contains an effect, it obviously stays running, but still returns home?

    Can you look at my show file?

    BW JonCTCRM1.isf

    CTCRM1.isf

    Hi Jon,

    Playbacks 8 & 9 have got "Fader Controls Position" enabled. This means position will always be scaled by the fader. Therefore when the fader is at 0%, they will be in their previous position, whether that be from another Playback or their home position. Therefore disable fader controls position on Playbacks 8 & 9 in their settings. To enter a Playback's Settings as described above hold SETUP and tap the Playback's button.

    If you then don't wish to see the fixtures snap to their new position, you can set a fade on this move by holding VIEW and tapping the Playback's button, and tapping the position fade cell and use the encoders to set it.

    Hope that helps, any queries let me know.

    Edward

  5. Moving Lights in Playbacks

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Just now, kgallen said:

    This is because when you drop the fader it "releases" the playback. This means that the playback stops having any control over the lights. If you have no other playbacks active then there is nothing else controlling the lights, so given they have to have "some" position, then the desk will drop back to the fixture default - which is the same as Home but with zero intensity.

    What you need to do is to stop the action of lowering the fader from releasing the channels. On FLX this will be Setup+PB button then under Raise and Lower, turn off Release. I suspect FLX S will be the same.

    If not, Edward will be along any moment to put the story straight, but this information might get you going in the interim...!

     

    Regards,

    Kevin

    Haha just beat me to it!

  6. Moving Lights in Playbacks

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Jon,

    To do that you need to disable "Release on Lower" for that Playback. To do this hold SETUP and tap the Playback's button to enter its settings. Then tap the "Raise & Lower" tab, and tap "Disable Release On Lower". That way the Playback will leave them in Position, but the fader will be able to take down the intensity.

    To then manually release (or turn off) this Playback so that the movers return to their home position, hold CLEAR and tap the Playback's button.

    Hope that helps, any queries let me know.

    Edward

  7. Update 7.9.3 problem

    in Solution & Solution XL

    Posted

    51 minutes ago, thierry said:

    Hi Edward and thank you for your mail.

    So i have updated again to 7.9.3 and reloaded my show.

    You were right, RigSync was enabled (i don't remember having touched anything about this, i don't even know what it's made for...).

    I have disabled RigSync and everything is fine now.

    You rule !!!

    Thanks for all, regards

    Thierry

    Hi Thierry,

    Great glad that solved it! You can find out what RigSync is be reading the article here...
    http://support.zero88.com/Consoles/FLX/995963301/What-is-RigSync.htm

    Kind regards
    Edward

  8. Update 7.9.3 problem

    in Solution & Solution XL

    Posted

    Hi Thierry,

    Happy New Year!

    Hmm that's odd. I haven't seen this before.

    Would you be able to email me your show file that the graduated intensity is present in? If you could let me know which Playback is causing problems, I'll be able to see if I can replicate the issue.

    Kind regards
    Edward

  9. Can't get remote app to connect

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 1/9/2018 at 12:00 PM, keredyelesob said:

    Do you know a time scale for this?

    some time ago In the beta group you released the Android app through the forum (this required android users to disable a security feature for third party apps to be installed) would it be possible to do this again for your inpatient users :P

    Regards

    Derek

    Hi Jason & Derek,

    They should be available for download today.

    Kind regards
    Edward

  10. Main playback cue on a separate display

    in FLX

    Posted

    Hello,

    On FLX consoles, the cue list window can only be in the bottom half of the Programming Desktop on the External Display, or in the Internal Touchscreen when the External Monitor is disabled in System Settings.

    In ZerOS 7.9.3 we made improvements to connection settings which meant a new app was necessary. There was an iOS app update over the weekend which brings support for older iOS devices. Check to see whether the update is available for you in the App Store.

    Hope that helps, any queries let me know.

    Edward

  11. Phantom Zero 7.9.3 has a bug

    in FLX

    Posted

    17 hours ago, John in Linlithgow said:

    Many thanks Ian & Edward. Initially Essentials refused to download Phantom because it thought there was a virus in it. However, time has been a great healer & it has now downloaded ok! Looking forward to Glasgow PLASA & meeting Z88 team.

    John B

    Hi John,

    Mandy will be visiting PLASA Glasgow so you will be able to chat with her, however we have chosen not to have a stand there this year.

    Edward

  12. Can't get remote app to connect

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 1/6/2018 at 1:59 PM, Jason Brameld said:

    I have just set up my FLX and can't get the remote app to connect.

    App version is 3.0.0.0.  Desk version is 7.9.3. Phone is Samsung S7 edge running Android v7.0.

    WAP is connected to desk ethernet port.  Phone is connected to WAP.  Desk shows up in app on my phone but won't connect when it is selected.  Have tried static IP on the desk and DHCP.  Security enabled or disabled and nothing works.

    Have restarted the desk and my phone.  All to no avail.

    I can ping the desk from a laptop on the same wireless network.

    Any ideas what's going wrong?

    Just to add to this, the PC Monitor app running on the same wireless system works fine.

    Jason.

     

     

    Hi Jason,

    We have enhanced the Remote connection to ZerOS consoles which has required an update to the apps to be compatible with ZerOS 7.9.3. The iOS version has already been released, however we are still waiting for the GooglePlay store ZerOS Apps to be updated.

    Edward

  14. Updating the speed of a Effect chase (7.9.3)

    in FLX

    Posted

    Hi Kevin,

    11 hours ago, kgallen said:

    Hi Edward,

    Thanks for your comprehensive response to my additional queries - I shall try those!

    For (3) I'm really surprised this isn't "Allow Stomping" - when you say you reported ZOS-8389 can you elaborate on the issue you found - I read your reply as you found an issue with stomping, rather than with Intensity LTP - maybe I misunderstand which part of (1) you found an issue with! I thought "stomping" would mean that the playback could "stomp all over" another playback and thus if my PB1 has "allow stomping" then it could "stomp all over" what the Master PB wanted to do (even LTP) and thus would support what I was looking to do in (3) i.e. PB1 keeps control of the HTP and LTP channels. Thus I'm not sure I understand what "Allow Stomping" actually allows! The FLX manual says "“Stomping” occurs when a playback takes control of all the channels from another playback" - but clearly I misunderstand here too - maybe related to the "release" part. Could you give me a deeper explanation of what stomping actually is and how the "release" part factors in to the operation?

    Yes ZOS-8389 is to do with Allow Stomping not working correctly, LTP Intensity Mixing is correct.

    Stomping is used to automatically release a Playback once all of the parameters it is currently controlling are given a new command from a different Playback. For example if Playback 1 is controlling fixtures 1-6 at 50%, and Playback 2 is controlling fixtures 1-6 @ 75%, when I put Playback 1 to full the fixtures would go to 50%, and when I add in Playback 2 the fixtures would go to 75%. If I took Playback 2 down the fixtures would drop to 50% as Playback 1 has them at that level still. However if Playback 2 has “Allow Stomping” enabled it is allowed to “Stomp” over Playback 1, and therefore as soon as it goes above 50% Playback 1 actually releases. This is useful for example if you have a different dance on each Playback that you want to work your way through.

    Hope that makes sense!

    11 hours ago, kgallen said:

    ps That's another couple of ZOS's with my name on. Tell Jon I'll take a zero88 t-shirt (XL size) and a couple of those zero88 USB sticks :D.

    There are a few FLX T-Shirts left!

    Kind regards

    Edward

     

  15. Updating the speed of a Effect chase (7.9.3)

    in FLX

    Posted

    On 1/3/2018 at 1:34 PM, kgallen said:

    Hi Edward (and ziglight),

    Thanks for your response, suggested workaround and other options - I'll have a play with an Effects Palette (not used those before) and the Speed Override.

    Also are you able to comment on my (2) regards colour fade time and (3) regards whether this is "stomping" and why I can't get the PB1 to keep control of the colour?

    Cheers, Kevin

    Hi Kevin,

    Again apologies for our delays on this one!

    On 12/28/2017 at 10:58 PM, kgallen said:

    Following on from having this effect chase, some other queries/observations:

    (1) So if I play my PB1 Effect chase over the top of my Master PB cue stack, I want the PB1 chase to take control of the intensity. From playback setup, I chose Intensity Mixing - LTP. This seems to do the job. Is this the correct way to achieve this? (At first I tried Allow Stomping from the Advanced tab, not knowing what "Stomping" is but it didn't do anything!).

    Yes using LTP is the correct way to do this. Allow Stomping is a method of allowing Playbacks to automatically released once every parameter has been given a later command from a new playback. This however appears to not be functioning as expected, so I have logged this as ZOS-8389.

    On 12/28/2017 at 10:58 PM, kgallen said:

    (2) When I raise the PB1 MFF, the colour fade time into the Effect chase can be altered in the cue view. However I find that when the MFF is released, the colour snaps back to that in the Master Playback - no fade there. What I'd actually like, is when the PB1 MFF is raised, the colour snaps to my Effect chase colours, but on release of PB1 the colour fades back to that in the current Master Playback cue. Is this possible?

    How I woukd do this is setting Playback 1s fader to control Colour under it's Settings. That way to snap the Colour in, you can snap the Playback up over the top of the Master Playback, but then to release you can fade out the Playback where the colour will fade into the Master Playback's colours.

    On 12/28/2017 at 10:58 PM, kgallen said:

    (3) If my PB1 Effects chase is running and I advance my Master PB, the colour of the chase moves to that in the incoming cue of the Master PB. So this makes sense for LTP of the colour. However if I want the PB1 Effect chase to retain control of the colour (and intensity) despite what the Master PB incoming cues have, can I configure the PB1 to do this? (Again, tried "Allow Stomping" but this didn't help!).

    There is no way of setting some Playbacks to ignore LTP rules for attributes. Therefore the only way to prevent the colour changing when you advance to cue 2 is to remove the colour data. This can be done by selecting the fixtures whose colour want to remove, tag colour, tap UPDATE and choose "Remove" from the Update Options. Then tap the Playback's GO button to finish the command.

    Hope that helps and all makes sense!

    Kind regards
    Edward

  16. Updating the speed of a Effect chase (7.9.3)

    in FLX

    Posted

    46 minutes ago, kgallen said:

    Hi Jon/Edward,

    Any help/update/comments on this thread at all? I'm in Tech this weekend, so if you can comment if my usage is incorrect of if you think it's a bug that would help me out.


    Thanks,

    Kevin

    Hi Kevin,

    Apologies for our delay in replying.

    We're looking into this still at the moment, but yes this is a bug affecting Intensity effects when updating them. This is logged as ZOS-8368. The best way to avoid this issue is after editing your effect speed, rather than tapping UPDATE tap RECORD, and save it as an effect palette. Then use this palette to update the cue with the edited intensity effect. 

    Alternatively if you are viewing the Playback containing this Effect, you can use Speed Override to change the speed of the effect live.

    Will feedback when we find out more information.

    Kind regards

    Edward

  18. RigSync pulsing ShowTec active SunStrips

    in Solution & Solution XL

    Posted

    Hi Peachy,

    Thanks for letting us know. We haven’t come across anyone else with this issue. However it sounds as if your SunStrips are not truly DMX compliant, and are receiving the RDM protocol used by RigSync and trying to interpret it as DMX data, which you’re seeing as a flicker.

    If you wish to use the SunStrips on the same DMX Output that has RigSync enabled, try addressing them to a DMX address in the second half of the universe (for example DMX 256-512) as this may stop the flickering. 

    Kind regards

    Edward

  20. Dimmer and shutter/strobe on same DMX Channel

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Fred,

    What you can do is add a Virtual Intensity channel to the fixture using the Fixture Editor software with a default of 255. Then set the Shutter/Strobe to be scaled by virtual intensity with its default set to intensity at maximum.

    This then allows the fixture’s channel fader to scale intensity, and you can then use the encoder wheel to access strobe. 

    Hope that helps

    Edward

  21. FLX hints & tips Advent Calendar

    in FLX

    Posted

    Hi Thomas,

    On Solution, the display in the bottom right corner is the 2-Preset Time (the same time palettes take when TIME is held) set under Special, not the Programmer Time. To see the Programmer Time tap SUBMASTERS and you'll be able to see the Programmer Time playback's position in seconds or minutes. To activate programmer time you'll need to tap the Playback's button. You will then see it go from dark to light blue in the MFF Window.

    Again on ORB Series, check that you've tapped the Programmer Time Playback's button to activate it. This is indicated in the bottom right monitor display which will go red, and also shown in the MFF Window on ORB XF. You can open the MFF window by holding SHIFT + FADER FUNC.

    Hope that helps, 
    Edward

  23. FLX hints & tips Advent Calendar

    in FLX

    Posted

    Hi Thomas,

    Yes Programmer Time is available on all consoles running ZerOS 7.9.3.

    Solution & ORB therefore have 2 methods of fading palettes, using a Playback to set the Programmer Time, or if you don't want to use a Playback holding TIME and tapping the palette you want to fade into.

    As you say this time for Solution consoles is set under SPECIAL, which is the same time the 2 preset cross fade uses.

    Hope that helps
    Edward

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