Edward Z88

The maximum recommend length for an Ethernet cable (from node to node) is 100m. For lengths longer than this you would need an Ethernet switch to “boost” the signal, or for very long runs convert to fibre. The maximum recommend cable length for DMX is 300m. As with both cases, depending on your system you may be able to achieve greater distances. Ethernet cables and connectors aren’t as rugged as DMX cabling and XLR connectors. However, you can use EtherCON connectors (the connector on the rear of FLX and on our Gateway products), along with toughened cables, to make the cable run just as rugged as a quality DMX cable. The length limitations still apply. Hope this helps, Edward

Hi Eric, No date on this yet unfortunately. When we are shipping them you will be able to purchase them from Zero 88 distributors. With good quality networking products, sending DMX over Ethernet and then converting back to DMX is just as reliable as a fully DMX system, how with all the added benefits Ethernet brings. For a discussion on Ethernet networking, take a look at our session below... If you connect a ZerOS Unlock Dongle to a PC, this allows you to output DMX directly from your PC. You can do this by either using a USB to DMX dongle that supports the ENTTEC standard, or by outputting sACN/Art-Net directly from your Ethernet port. Using a gateway (such as Gateway 4 and Gateway 8 when they’re released) allows you to then convert your Ethernet DMX back to DMX. Hope this helps, if you have any questions let us know. Edward

Hi Eric, Yes, this is on our road map. Somewhere on the forum there are pictures of an early beta version of this on ZerOS. Cheers Edward

Hi Eric, ”Sub-Fixtures” or “multi-part” or “multi-pixel” or”zoned fixtures”, basically means one fixture having potentially multiple intensities, multiple RGBW, or maybe multiple Pan and Tilt. The most common implementation of controlling such fixtures, is to use syntax such as 2.3. This would control part 3 of fixture 2. Currently, we don’t have this functionality on ZerOS. All this means is you have a choice of how you control multi part fixtures on FLX. Option 1, is you patch the fixture just like any normal fixture, where it just has a single fixture number on the console. However if there are multiple RGBW, these would just be under the colour attribute, and each time you tap COLOUR you would page through and access each part in turn. Doing this will not apply colour to the internal colour mixing, or effects. If there are multiple intensities, these are found under Beam. Option 2, which is the best option if you are on FLX, is to patch each part/pixel as its own fixture. Therefore if you have a 10 cell LED batten, you wouldn’t simply have a single fixture patched on the console for the whole batten, you would have 10 pixels patched. You then have a fixture per pixel, and easily control them as whole by grouping them if you wish. If you’re on a FLX S console, you will quickly run out of fixture numbers using this method so you are best to elect for the full FLX in these situations. So as Kevin mentions above, fixtures with multi-cell functionality typically use up more DMX channels, however the console can’t change that (unless you use RDM to change to a fewer channel count mode, but doing this would lose multi cell functionality). If you are running out of DMX channels on your system, you will therefore have to put your lights in smaller channel count modes. Hope this helps and makes sense, if you have any questions let us know. Edward

Hello, This is actually the correct behaviour. When you have several fixtures selected, and they are all at different values, rather than having all the different values listed on the encoder, the value of the first selected fixture is shown. Therefore if you are using Fan First, with this fan mode the first fixture stays at its current value, and you fan values from there across your selection. If you were to step through each fixture one by one you would see how that offset value increases. Your custom effect palettes will be loaded in from FLX to FLX S. However there would be no way of accessing the Waveforms editor to make changes, you would just have access to the encoders. Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hi Eric, Yes, when you need to use fixtures in the high channel count modes, you will very quickly eat up universes when you are using a number of fixtures. Hence why FLX is available up to 16 universes of DMX output for these large channel count situations. Edward

Hi Kevin, Thanks for looking into this. Worth mentioning FLX would be compatible with monitors with an HDMI input, however a DVI to HDMI cable would be required, rather than DVI to DVI. Cheers, Edward

Hi Eric, Currently ZerOS doesn’t have “sub-fixtures” meaning you are best to patch a fixture on the console per pixel. Edward

Hello, Welcome to the Zero 88 Forum. We are currently working with @van den abbeele Eric to get his French translation on our website. In the meantime, Eric may be able to give you a copy. If you have any questions let me know. Edwarc

Hi Kevin, P-Cap and Projective Capacitive are the same thing - basically means it will feel more like a smart phone touchscreen, allowing for multi-touch, rather than the feel of your resistive touchscreen. Regarding aspect ratio, FLX doesn't mind 4:3 or 16:9, so it is up to you which you'd prefer. Regarding resolution, FLX can support 1920 x 1080, but will auto adjust and accept the standard resolutions. Looks like the max resolution of iiyama's 15.6" is 1366 x 720, which is fair enough. Most of these integrate a USB hub, which is always nice too. Edward

Hi Kevin, Just had a quick look... https://iiyama.com/gl_en/products/touchscreens/all/all/#/filter/category:4 (After getting side tracked by the 86" 4K touchscreen!!) Looks like if you want wide screen they do some 15.6" capacitive touchscreens if you want something a little smaller. Edward

Hello, Yes, FLX S24 was released in 2017, and is still regularly recieving software updates bringing new features and enhancements. The latest software for FLX S24 is ZerOS 7.9.7, which can be downloaded from our website below... https://zero88.com/zeros#download Bonjour, Oui, le FLX S24 est sorti en 2017 et reçoit toujours régulièrement des mises à jour logicielles apportant de nouvelles fonctionnalités et améliorations. Le dernier logiciel pour FLX S24 est ZerOS 7.9.7, qui peut être téléchargé à partir de notre site Web ci-dessous ... https://zero88.com/zeros#download Edward

Hi Mark, Great, glad to hear it. The below resources should get you started... https://www.zero88.com/live http://support.zero88.com/Consoles/FLX-S/ If there’s anything else you need let me know. Hope this helps, Edward

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How to’s added to my to-do list! Cheers Edward

Hi Mark, If you program a completely blank cue (as it sounds like you have in playback 1 to use as macro triggers), there won’t be a fade time displayed, as that cue itself has no information for intensities to change. Triggers and releases uses the cue fades, so if you need to customise the timings, you’ll need to put dummy intensity information into each of your macro cues - you could do this by just patching an extra dimmer channel you don’t need, and just have it fade on and off from 0% to 1%. This will bring the fade time controls back for you to configure. Hope this helps, Edward

Great glad you’ve got that working. Sure - any other questions let us know. Edward

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Yes - what would be best is to just remove the legacy products for now. Will do that shortly. Just to give you a heads up, we will soon be bringing our manuals online. As this is done, information on the knowledge base will also be transferred and included in the relevant parts of the manual. The knowledge base will then be surplus to requirements. Edward

Done: http://support.zero88.com/1963020271

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Hi Mark, To do this, you can program your chase which will control just the intensity of the fixtures, and you can then program playbacks that just control colour. The simplest way to do this, is firstly push up the intensities of all your fixtures to full, and then record this to a playback fader. Then push this playback fader up, so the fixtures come on in their default colour (white). Then select the fixtures and choose the colour you wish to store, and then press and hold RECORD. From the Record Options window that opens, ensure SmartTag is disabled, indicated with a blue stripe. If it is enabled (red stripe) the console will include intensity with your colour. You just want colour to be stored, not intensity, that way intensity can be controlled by the chase playback separately. Then tap the flashing playback button you wish to store your colour to. Then repeat this process for all of your colours. You won't need to press and hold RECORD each time, as once SmartTag is disabled in the Record Options it will stay disabled until you enable it again. If you cannot see a SmartTag button in the Record Options window, see below... http://support.zero88.com/1014189311 Then double tap CLEAR, and program your intensity chase, ensuring not to include any colour information. Once you have done this, you should find you can raise your chase playback, and introduce colours over the top using your colour playbacks. You will probably find you want to enable fader controls colour on the colour playbacks. To do this, press and hold SETUP and tap your colour playback's button, and then choose Colour under fader controls, so that it has a red stripe. Fore more information, see below... http://support.zero88.com/1011405471 To turn SmartTag back on for future programming, press and hold RECORD, tap SmartTag so it has a red stripe, and then tap RECORD to save and close the window. Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know. Edward

Hi All, We had a suggestion to post an announcement here, just to ensure forum users are aware. Zero 88 has completed a series of training sessions which were live streamed on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. These are now available to watch “on demand” via social media, or here: https://zero88.com/live For more information, see below... https://zero88.com/news/live-streamed-training-sessions-now-available-on-demand As always if you have any questions let us know. Edward

Hi Kevin, A good place to start with Capture is by using one of the predefined performance spaces - you can drag in a proscenium stage for example and define all the dimensions. That’s definitely something you have to get the hang of! I tend to have an overhead window, a front on window, a rendered window (shortcut Ctrl-X) and the settings window. The front on window I then toggle sometimes to the side on view depending what I’m doing. Hope this helps, Edward

The nice thing about Capture, is it is pretty “plug and play”, when you have your console and laptop in IP range. If you want to be lazy, just connect your laptop and console to a router, and then the laptop and CITP protocol on the console can both just be set to DHCP with no need to configure IP addresses. You then just need to match your patch. See the article below on how to configure your console to communicate with our demo files... http://support.zero88.com/1004254221 If you want to connect Phantom with Capture on the same PC, as we were doing for the training, see below... http://support.zero88.com/988883201 I personally really like Capture, and find it easy to use - I have been using visualisation software for quite a while now though. Drag in the truss, drag pieces and they snap together, then drag in your fixture, snap to the truss, copy it, and duplicate it across X, Y or Z axis with even spacing. If you have any questions let me know. Edward