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Jon Hole

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  1. I’m allowed to have a few secrets 🙂 

    Vision.Net is the natural progression from our previous iCAN architectural integration - with the benefit that you don’t need additional hardware (so it works on all ZerOS consoles). We’ve had multiple requests from customers and team (especially those across the pond) for this integration.

    KiNet opens a few new doors, especially for ZerOS Server.

    Philips Hue is just fun 😆

  2. 10 hours ago, van den abbeele Eric said:

    Edward can you tell me where to find "Discrete timings on FLX (apply specific timings to specific parameters)". in online manual ?

    Edward was referring to the 3rd option in the poll - "Discrete timings on FLX (apply specific timings to specific parameters)" - so if this is a feature that you'd like to see, vote for that one 🙂

    10 hours ago, van den abbeele Eric said:

    Question if I'm using this possibility two Cues with "Auto With" is it possible to use different timing ? 5 sec for one Cue and 15 sec for the other ?

    Yes, they run as two completely independent cues, just at the same time rather than after each other. It's the equivalent of "Part Cues" on other consoles (when I use them, I have my first cue as Cue X, and then use point cues for the Auto-With cues, so Cue X.1, Cue X.2 etc). Just make sure you don't tag the same parameters in both cues (and definitely don't use snapshot!).

  3. Thanks for your comments! We really do value them.

    12 hours ago, van den abbeele Eric said:

    different between Up and Down time fades ... for "color changes", "Gobo changes", "shape changes" and on the "positions change"

    Can you detail how you'd want this to work? Intensities are a single parameter either fading "up" and "down", but colour can be multiple parameters that are just "changing". Similar for gobos, positions, etc. If you could go into some detail of what you would like the end result to be, that would be really helpful.

    12 hours ago, van den abbeele Eric said:

    Fixture Creator will be good on Mac OS ! And I think that will be good for intruduce Mas OS and Zero88. 

    We're hoping to have some news about a fixture builder later in the year.

    12 hours ago, van den abbeele Eric said:

    Do you think that Mac OS will have capacities for running ZerOS ? This will be good 

    We discuss this every-so-often, and it's certainly not impossible... but we don't have a roadmap for this yet, and I don't foresee it coming soon (and I say this as a Mac user... so I'm invested in this idea!!!).

  4. Hi Simon,

    I think the end result will be what you want, but not by the method you expect.

    When RigSync discovers and patches a fixture, the link between the console and that fixture is the RDM UID, not the DMX address. Therefore, if someone messes up all the DMX addresses and then you load your older showfile in, RigSync will make sure that your showfile works by:

    1. Repatching your showfile to match the new addresses
    2. Readdressing any fixtures where this isn’t possible (eg overlaps)

    Also, remember about the “Revert Rig” option. When RigSync discovers your fixtures, it will store the values of those fixtures into the showfile before then making any required changes. So… if your rig is “correct” at the point of RigSync discovery, RigSync will store these settings and patch your fixtures, but not make any changes. If someone messes up all the DMX addresses, you then have the option to load that showfile in and click “Revert Rig” (note – when loading in your showfile, RigSync might automatically make lots of changes to make the rig work, so if you want it back to how it was before, you’ll need to click “Revert Rig” and then reload your showfile)

  5. I think your general concept is correct - if you start at Cue 1, and program sequentially into a single Cue List - never making any mistakes, updates or inserts - and so long as you always use the programmer (not other Playbacks / UDKs) then the tracking options shouldn’t affect what you see on stage.

    (however, they might affect the data recorded into your cue, which might affect the behaviour / output if you go back and make edits)

  6. 2 hours ago, Muller Light said:

    Let's hope you continue to support the Solution for a few years.

    There's certainly no plan to stop support any time soon!

    Some new feature will continue to come to Solution (like Multicell, which we've just launched) whereas other's might not be appropriate or possible... however that's no different to ZerOS today, where FLX and FLX S don't always recieve identical updates.

    The only ZerOS-based console we've been forced to drop support for so far was the FROG 2 back in 2017 (but that was still 13 years after the console launched).

     

  7. Thanks so much @davelowe for highlighting this to us so quickly.

    We're really sorry this has happened :(

    2 hours ago, davelowe said:

    think the leak of email addresses needs plugged.

    Just to confirm, the forum has not been "hacked" (I've updated the topic title) and there's absolutely no suggestion that personal details have been leaked.

    Instead, someone (or potentially a robot) signed up and successfully went through validation. They (/it) then started Personal Messaging accounts through the forum... depending on your account settings, you may then have recieve an email to tell you someone had sent you a Personal Message.

  8. Dear All,

    We’re excited to announce the availability of ZerOS 7.10, a new update to the award-winning software available on Zero 88 consoles as well as the Strand FLX S Series recently launched into the Americas market. The new ZerOS 7.10 Update introduces several innovative features that give designers more creative capabilities and improved flexibility to control their luminaires how they want, including new multicell support, a major fixture library update, and new move-on-dark configuration options.

    Watch this video for an overview of everything included in the new release:

    ZerOS 7.10 introduces other capabilities and bug fixes as well, including the ability to use +/- syntax on the Zero 88 FLX console to adjust intensities, fade times, etc. See the release notes for details on all updates and bug fixes in the software. 

    We have also created several training videos to get you up to speed on the latest changes: 

    ZerOS 7.10, Phantom ZerOS 7.10 (offline editor) and the Release Notes can be found at zero88.com/zeros

    If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@zero88.com

    Best regards,

    Jon

  9. Hi Tony,

    To answer your question we need to know about the whole system, not just the console. Do you know who installed the lighting system in the school? If so, contacting them would be a good starting point as they hopefully have the whole system documented and will be in a position to help much quicker than we will be able to.

    If not, please provide as much information / photos of anything you can find that might be part of the lighting system - including close up pictures of the lights themselves (showing make / model etc) and we'll try to help!

    Jon

  10. 2 hours ago, Kauz said:

    Unfortunately there is no equivalent for the THRU soft key.

    ">" acts as THRU

    There's a full list of keyboard shortcuts for FLX S available here: https://zero88.com/manuals/zeros/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts#flxs

    2 hours ago, Kauz said:

    Why did zero88 not use the "/" key for this? 

    ZerOS uses "/" in lots of syntax, meaning it wasn't available for THRU. For example, on an ORB, the syntax "CUE a/b TIME x/y ENTER" applies an up time of "a" and a down time of "b" to cue "y" of Cue Stack "x"

  11. 13 hours ago, delicolor said:

    if the FLX-S booted up reflecting the faders and page/mode used on shutdown rather than defaulting to all faders off regardless of position, that would be useful.

    Just so you know, it’s a hardware limitation that makes this feature unavailable, so we could never introduce this as a software update. However, there are potentially other options - such as maybe introducing a “startup state”.

     

    11 hours ago, keredyelesob said:

    When you say 'Fixture builder within ZerOS' will this builder be able to support all of the new features that are getting implemented within the beta and future releases. or will it just be the fixture builder that is available in windows but ported into Zeros? 

    Almost none of the listed features have been fully scooped or spec’d, so at this stage it’s hard to say. However, if we’re doing this, it would cover all the new features. Whether it was a full builder within ZerOS, or a simple builder within ZerOS and a full builder somewhere else, is up for discussion.

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