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Hello I have problem getting my Cooper controls LF Playback wing (10 faders, 40 buttons I think + 7seg led displ with page up/down buttons) work with the Leap Frog 48 running latest ZerOS, It connects fine, seems like everythink's ok, the desk sees it, and I manage to assign the buttons and faders for certain functions, however the desk does not apply any command sent from the wing. As well as the up/down buttons with 7 segment LED display, patched to have identical functionality as submaster's (or mfk's) page up/down buttons and it's led display, have practically no affect on the pages, neither the number on the wings led display doesn't change, but stays "1" no matter what I do. It's connected through LAN, tryed normal and crosscable (8 pin), directly to desk and through router (switch). The wing however works perfectly fine with full functionality (the led display and all commands are responding properly) connected to a PC running Lught factory. I'd however need it to work with frog, to run 10 more submasters, but no luck. Any clues what's wrong? Is there some known bug in the software..? Doesn't seem to work with one previous ZerOS release, but not completely 100% sure about this.... Can you maybe check? Thank you. Marc

Great. Looking forward for next release... Thanks, Marc.

Hello I'm really sorry to have to say that, but, there's really problematic bug in Fixture Type Editor 2.6.0.0. (that's the one I'm currently using, not sure for previous versions). Today, I started to write a new fixture types for Proel Dreamlight 1200 Eclipse Spot, which has 3 operating modes, two 24ch and one 32ch, therefore I had to create 3 fixtures, and spend really long time in adding parameters so far, and since Proel's pdf does not include dmx stoppers for colors, shutter/strobe etc, but only the channels of the parameters! (that suck, though...)., I had to do that realtime with the moving head controlled by usual fader! That took me 3 hours so far. Anyway, I'm stuck at addind 30th parameter in second fixture (at least didn't spent 2 more hours for the thirdone yet!) because I accidentally doubleclicked the Toolbar, and so got opened Customize Toolbar window. Looks like you guys kinda forget on thatone when programming, since the availible buttons as well as current buttons lists are empty, but that's not the issue. The button Close, neither right-click and selecting Close, neither pressing on the red X at the top of the window, neither using Alt+F4 DOESN'T WORK to close that window. It's simply stuck there, and, the most problematic thing is, that it's focused. So, now, because of my stupidity of not saving regularly, I can't save the file I just spent 3 hours on, and can't do anything else but force closing the Editor from within Windows Task Manager. Since I'm mentioning bugs, also, the shortcuts for cut/copy/paste (Ctrl+X/C/V) doesn't seem to work within editor, so need to copy text with right click copy/paste command. I'm sorry for this, because, yes, I'm really pissed right now, because I wasted my time, and have to use these light tonight, so I'm nervous, but I completely understand it's not your fault for the bugs, since these are not intended to be there, but more likely my fault for not saving it, and Proels of course, for not giving users the proper pdf file of the fixture Anyway, had to have you known, so, hope you'll fix this as soon as possible. Thank you, Bye, Marc

Great. Thank you.

Hello Jon. No problem. I must tell you, that since I opened it, and clean everything up (not that it was any dirt inside, it was really clean, except for the faders, which I did clean up..), also took card and ram out, and refit it again, haven't had that problem yet on 3 gigs I've been working. But still hope to get any info, if they maybe can tell for sure, if those were the hardware error problems, that might get fixed with refitting the card (since you've mentioned that it might be the card connection error when saving/reading show file). So, I'm still looking forward to your next reply. Thank you, Marc.

Sorry for pulling this one up... I'm just wondering, what's the size needed for "when on a large screen (tablet) it acts as a remote monitor" use"? Using the android app on our 7" tablet seems to work only as fader/palletes trigger... is the tablet's screen too small, to use as remote monitor? And, by remote monitor it's intended to be used just as windows remote monitor, showing the desktop data?

Comming up with this topic: I've noticed the Backspace on MFK keyboard doesn't seem to work in Setup mode.. [running 7.4]. Not sure, if this is as it's supposed to be, or a bug, though...

Agree with last reply. Preset button can be really annoying and useless in some cases...

Thank you for your reply. I already opened it, to clean everything up, especially the buttons (the MFK buttons sometimes got stuck pressed in..), and the card was seated properly, but I did recheck it's connection as well as everything else, and found nothing to seem wrong... As you said, it's kinda logic, yes, that it happens when it tries to load (boot-up error) and save (deleting palletes error) show, so it might be because of the flash card. Anyway, I won't change or touch too much anything in console, as I'm looking forward for your next reply with hopefully any new info. Regards, Marc

Hello First, I want to say hello to everyone on the forum, since I'm new here. Anyway, I'm kinda sorry that I joined here only because of having problems with my console Leap Frog 48. I'm gonna start from the beginning of all troubles. I got the console to work with in december 2011, so it's less than a year, but got to know it very fast, and also love it and it's principe of working, however there are some bugs and things, I'd rather see changed/different. But that's not why I'm here. In february, I faced with first freeze ever, and didn't pay much attention to that. On the VGA output display there was a " X " in the middle of the screen, and the console stopped responding, completely. However, it didn't stopped to transmit the output DMX signal. the only thing I could do was to turn in off and reboot. After a boot-up, the desk warned me about an error, and asked me if I want to copy the log to the usb key. I denied, since I didn't pay much attention and also needed a desk as quick as possible to run on, because it happened in the middle of the show. After that, it happened once more in the same night. Again, didn't save the log, but next day I did a full desk reset. Thought it could be the memory scene damaged or something. But it didn't help, since I got that trouble for a few more times. So in March, I upgraded ZerOS software on the desk, because it wasn't up to date, but that didn't solve my issues. The desk still freezed randomly, even with a completely empty scene or without doing anything special, sometimes when recording submasters, sometimes while making a pallete, etc. When I was just about to put in on a service, I decided to clean it up a little by myself, so I opened it, cleaned any peace of dust or anything inside, but that didn't help. In may, a new upgrade came out, so I upgraded it, and for about a month I had no trobles, thinking the update solved the issues. I was wrong. All summer long I was facing troubles, but couldn't get it to service, because I needed it every 3 or 4 days. These troubles now, in august, became even stranger. One of the new troubles is, that the desk freezed at deleting position or beamshape pallete, but in that case there was still a normal picture on the output VGA screen, just not responding to any click or mouse or anything... That happened even if I went to Setup and deleted "All position" palletes, but only as long as that memory scene was up. When loading up other scene from USB drive, the deleting was working fine. The other trouble, for what I'm firstly and urgently asking you for help, is, boot-up freeze with the same X in the middle of VGA screen as mentioned at the beginning of my post. Only this time it happens right after loading all software elements - after I get warning about wing initialization errors etc, where I should press ENTER and come to main desktop - at that state it freezes with X. I can reboot it for 10 times, no help, but we did notice that when we shaked a little the console, it booted up normally. When it occured every while, it's still acceptable, rather than staying without it for a month or two for service, but now, it happens everytime I need to use it, so I'm desperated. Is it possible, that some of the elements in the console itself have troubles, or bad connections? I'm attaching the log of the last boot-up trouble, if anything helps. For other freezing and troubles, is it possible, that it's the CF/MD card having some errors? Or maybe the RAM inside? If there's any chance for that, I'd be willing to put in a bigger RAM, if it would work, and replacing the memory card, since it's kinda hard working with this troubles.... ANY help would be appreciated. Thanks, Marc [slovenia] debug.dat