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  1. A quick update regarding your Vari-Lite Support team

    in News & Announcements

    Posted

    On 1/6/2025 at 6:56 PM, Charlie Newman said:

    thank you for all of your support @Jon Hole ... I wish you all of the best in the future, you'll be sorely missed!

    On 1/7/2025 at 4:55 AM, Davidmk said:

    My disappointment knows no bounds.

    On 1/7/2025 at 8:20 PM, mikeb said:

    Thank you for all your help and guidance over the years ... @Jon Hole all the best for the future

    On 1/7/2025 at 10:49 PM, Simonkbike said:

    What? No! ... Many thanks for your above-and-beyond support for a little minnow.

    On 1/8/2025 at 8:17 AM, thierry said:

    Merci Jon pour ta pédagogie, ta patience, la pertinence de tes réponses, cela a toujours été un plaisirs d'échanger avec toi, un grand professionnel qui m'a toujours bien aidé

    On 1/8/2025 at 12:50 PM, Tassal said:

    I wish everyone well in their new ventures.

    On 1/13/2025 at 2:35 PM, SimonH said:

    Good luck Jon

    On 1/16/2025 at 5:03 PM, kgallen said:

    Thanks for so much Jon over the years - great products, accurate and timely support, recruiting some other great team members, and putting up with some quite strong feedback and comments from us on here. You will be missed as will all of the legacy Z88 team. Good Luck!

    On 1/16/2025 at 5:53 PM, delicolor said:

    @Jon Hole I wish you future success in your forthcoming move.

     

    Hi all,

    I've been reading your replies and they've really meant a lot to me, thank you. I've deliberately waited a few weeks before replying.

    All the very best for the future and, if you're at a trade show in the future, please come and say hello - this LinkedIn post shows where I've headed to, if you're interested!

    Jon

     

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  2. A quick update regarding your Vari-Lite Support team

    in News & Announcements

    Posted

    Hi all,

    To ensure Vari-Lite can provide the best possible support, I’d like to quickly remind everyone of the three active support routes:

    1. Emailing entertainment.service@signify.com or calling +1 214 647 7880
      (While the legacy Zero 88 contact methods are still monitored by the UK-based support team, the above contact details are the “official” routes which are monitored by the global support team).
       
    2. This “Vari-Lite Controls Support Forum”
      (Over the years this has become a fantastic resource of data and is home to some very knowledgeable users. The Vari-Lite team regularly monitor the forum (your forum admins are Darren - @DMH and Ryan - @RJP from the UK-based support team). However, if you require immediate direct support from Vari-Lite, the contact details above are the correct method).
       
    3. “Vari-Lite Console Programmers” Facebook Group

     

    Lastly, I’d like to take a moment to say farewell, as I’m stepping down from the team.

    I’m so proud of the products we’ve launched over my time - FLX, ZerOS Wing, FLX S24 & S48, ZerOS Server, RigSwitch, AlphaPack 3, BetaPack 4, Splitter 8, Gateway 4, Gateway 8, Neo X15, Neo X5, Neo X Server and RigSwitch+. And I’m delighted to have finally released ZerOS 8!

    Here’s a couple of ZerOS screenshots comparing when I started (ZerOS 5.4), to now (ZerOS 8):

    image.png   image.png

    But it’s not all about the products - there’s been so much more too. Three (1, 2, 3) PLASA Awards for Innovation, several patents, our industry’s best RDM implementation with RigSync, the first console to implement Art-Net 4, Zero 88’s 40th Anniversary and the “Me and My Zero 88” competition, being ahead of the curve on natively supporting GDTF, the Simplifying Jargon videos, “Live at the Congress” Events and #WeMakeEvents campaigns over COVID, updating the Zero 88 website, our yearly Advent Calendars, our April Fools Day posts (anyone remember FLX switching to Roman Numerals or the new ZerOS Wing SD?) and the High Altitude Balloon into near space competition.

    So many great memories, fun, experience, knowledge and friendships have been made during this time which are, and will continue to be, very, very special to me.

    The Vari-Lite team are committed to continuing this good work – with plans to develop and support both ZerOS & FLX S, along with RigSwitch+, Neo X and VisionNet. I wish them all continued success with those projects.

    So, from me, it’s Time to Say Goodbye. And thank you.

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  3. RDM

    in FLX

    Posted

    Yes, unfortunately it requires the fixture to provide somewhat useful information back to the console, so ZerOS can have a good guess at how to control it well.

  4. RDM

    in FLX

    Posted

    Yes, there's a range of options.

    On ZerOS, we're focusing on GDTF now - which is a standard where luminaire manufactures make a file for each of their fixtures, which you can then load into any lighting console (so long as they support GDTF).

    The core library within ZerOS is based on the Carallon database.

    Jon

  5. Vari-Lite doubles FLX S capacity and more with free ZerOS 8.0 software update

    in News & Announcements

    Posted

    11 hours ago, scottydog75 said:

    Nice work @Jon Hole & team!

    Thank you! Very, very happy to get this release out!

    11 hours ago, scottydog75 said:

    (although not been shouted about on your news page yet! 😉 https://www.vari-lite.com/global/news#page=1)

    No, we're going to hold out distributing the Press Release until after the New Year, when we believe it will get more engagement. At that point, we'll put it on the news page.

    11 hours ago, scottydog75 said:

    what would be your top three wishes be for ZerOS's next feature set?!

    If you take a look at this thread, you'll be able to see what I've voted for 🙂

    11 hours ago, scottydog75 said:

    Wishing a Happy Christmas & NY!

    Thank you so much 🙂 You too!

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  6. Vari-Lite doubles FLX S capacity and more with free ZerOS 8.0 software update

    in News & Announcements

    Posted

    Vari-Lite has announced the ZerOS 8 software update for FLX, FLX S and ZerOS Server. The update doubles the capacity of Vari-Lite’s FLX S Series consoles, removing the need for paid universe upgrades, and further increases the integration between Vari-Lite’s FLX S consoles and new RigSwitch+ power platform.
     

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    We’re witnessing our users demand more and more of their trusty FLX S consoles, including the number of fixtures they wish to control along with the increasing feature counts of fixtures such as the new VL600 Acclaim+. Therefore, we’ve spent considerable time reengineering ZerOS so we better utilise the powerful FLX S hardware to comfortably support significantly larger showfiles. We’re delighted to offer this for free to all our tens of thousands of FLX S users.

       - Jon Hole, Global Product Manager, Vari-Lite Systems and Control


    With ZerOS 8, FLX S24 & FLX S48 now support 96 & 192 fixtures respectively, both now across 2,048 DMX channels (equivalent to 4 full DMX universes). Not content with doubling the fixture count and channel license, ZerOS 8 also doubles the number of playbacks, groups and palettes available on all FLX S consoles. The full size FLX and ZerOS Server also receives an upgrade to 4,096 channels (equivalent to 8 full DMX universes).
     

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    We’re blown away by the positive response to RigSwitch+ and seeing installs around the world already enjoying the power, flexibility and feature set of our new power platform. We wanted to ensure these venues can fully control RigSwitch+ without eating into the fixture count of their FLX Series consoles, and so we’ve added new relay features throughout ZerOS.

       - Jon Hole, Global Product Manager, Vari-Lite Systems and Control


    With ZerOS 8, users can add relay circuits to every fixture on their console without further eating into their fixture count. These relays can be manually controlled or users can allow ZerOS to automatically control the relays - switching each individual circuit on when the fixture plugged into it is needed, and switching it off when they’re not.
     

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    ZerOS 8 means FLX S, RigSwitch+ and Acclaim Series integrate together even better than before, making for a great value, high performance, installation package.

       - Jon Hole, Global Product Manager, Vari-Lite Systems and Control


    Vari-Lite has also simultaneously released ZerOS 7.14.4 specifically for legacy ZerOS consoles, improving both performance and stability to these consoles.
     


    Download the latest version of ZerOS free of charge from the Vari-Lite website: https://www.vari-lite.com/global/products/zeros-software

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  7. Options on LCD screen

    in FLX

    Posted

    Thanks Simon.

    We currently display the parameters (within the attribute groupings) in the order of the DMX-footprint, with the exception that some key "special" parameters (RGB, P/T, etc) are brought to the start. When we updated our colour mixing algorithms, we should have tweaked this to bring all LED emitters together at the start, but that got missed.

    Added as ZOS-12566.

    Jon

  11. Adding new fixtures

    in Jester Range

    Posted

    On 12/1/2024 at 11:17 PM, Klang said:

    I use a Jester ML48 and ... Martin ERA 150 Wash

    1 hour ago, Klang said:

    forgotten to set the DMX addresses so had wait until after the show run to get the ladders out

    Both the Zero 88 Jester ML48 and the Martin ERA 150 Washes support RDM, so this should have been possible remotely over the cable.

  12. Apps?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi @Charlie Newman - it's a frustrating situation. Long story short, Google closed our "Cooper Lighting Solutions" Google Play account (as we're no longer that legal entity), however our apps in their current form do not fulfil all of Google's latest requirements for new apps, so we can't transfer them / upload them to Signify's account without significant rework... which is scheduled to do.

  16. Adding new fixtures

    in Jester Range

    Posted

    On 12/3/2024 at 7:27 AM, kgallen said:

    what’s the current policy regarding library releases and support for legacy ZerOS and pre-ZerOS consoles

    For all ZerOS consoles (excluding FROG2), we support GDTF files which can be downloaded straight from the fixture manufacture (or the GDTF Share site). If the fixture manufacture refuse to make a GDTF file available, first complain to them, but then use the various tools available - filtering & fixture creation directly in ZerOS, or the fixture builder on the GDTF site (or, last resort, the legacy Zero 88 fixture editor). If there's RDM, a basic fixture personality will automatically be created if there isn't on in the library.

    For non-ZerOS consoles, if the fixture isn't already available, the Zero 88 fixture editor is available to easily and quickly create fixture files (remember most of these consoles, such as Jesters, do not use any of the details / images / colours etc. So they just need channel name & order, appropriate attribute, and the default value).

    The above are, by far, the quickest options. Alternatively, email the Vari-Lite support team at entertainment.service@signify.com

     

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  17. Create chase the slows down!

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    That's super helpful, thank you!

    If you could add a fourth light into the mix, you could use the "Chase (1/4)" effect instead of a chase. This has an advantage of a "Speed" channel, which you could then programme at "0" on the second cue, and set the fade to whatever length you want. The only issue is that you wouldn't be easily able to guarantee which of the four it would stop on permanently - not sure if that's an issue?

  18. Create chase the slows down!

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    19 hours ago, Stan Vigurs said:

    I commonly create a chase to create a passing train effect which is very affective

    Please can you provide a bit more context on what the end result looks like, and how you get there? For example, what is the chase actually doing (just intensities? pan?). What's the end goal, to emulate the headlights of the train passing, or something else? What fixtures are you using? How many? From what direction onto the stage?

    (Or, even better, a video of the effect).

    Then we can get our thinking hats on regarding how you could achieve this.

  19. Show Active Playbacks?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Richy,

    The MFF Window shows you which playbacks are active (excluding the Master Playback). In this screenshot, Playback 1, 3, 4, 5 & 6 are recorded, but only Playback 4 & 5 are active.

    image.png

    To release all Playbacks (excluding the Master Playback) hold down the CLEAR button and tap FADER FUNCTION (the Channels/Playbacks button).

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  22. loading/saving questions. And what is NOT possible??

    in FLX

    Posted

    On 11/14/2024 at 9:47 AM, Davidmk said:

    What do you think @Jon Hole

    It's worth voting for them in the "What would you like to see" thread. Currently it doesn't have many votes, which aligns with feedback I hear from other sources too. It would be a big job to implement well, and I suspect it would only positively impact quite a small number of users... but happy to be proven wrong 🙂

     

  23. loading/saving questions. And what is NOT possible??

    in FLX

    Posted

    On 11/14/2024 at 10:27 AM, Ed75 said:

    moving fixtures from an universe to another universe is easy, IF fixtures are addressed successive ... If not, it's a bit a pain, because every fixture needs to be adressed individually then. Is there a way to solve this?  just changing the universe without the desk 'forgetting' the adresses?

    This is already possible. Just keep the textbox empty when you change the universe using the top left button. Doing this means the addresses of each fixture do not change, only the universe... even if they aren't sequential 

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