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Edward - you should start a "How To" list on the KB of "how to do kool things" and add this to it.

Cheers Edward. I would just bring the FLX into the house and plug into a spare port on a switch on my house network (192.168.x.x), so sounds like with DHCP it should be easy to play. Thanks for the article refs. Guess I need to work with it a bit more to get it "second nature". I think the bit I found hardest was setting up the stage environment - getting the pros in place, getting the bars in the right place, getting the tabs, cyc and wings into place and the right height. Placing the fixtures I agree is not so bad apart from the 3D aspect - I always seem to end up dropping a fixture onto completely the wrong bar! I think I need a trip over to Cwmbran some time when we're past this madness...

Yea you're spot on with the External Monitor - readable but a little broken up. Yes it's the front panel that is wholly unreadable - but even Phantom running on your PC, we know the front panel is pretty bad/unreadable. I have a paid-for Capture 2019 license - I really need to try hooking that up to FLX like you guys do (I need to find one of your videos). I do find that software a bit clunky to set up a rig on though. I've tried to demo ideas to our directors but it was a bit of a PITA. Not very intuitive I find and pretty clumsy to position and move stuff. Must have taken you hours to rig those 10 movers and that band on the YouTube demos I'm watching. Or maybe I'm just useless at that too...

You gotta be kidding! We know what the buttons say, but Home, Setup etc, each letter gotta be 3 pixels by 3 pixels at best! And if you can read REC or DBO then you're "makin' it up"!

Thanks! Zoom - that's another one (popular at the moment). I'm all video-conferenced out at the moment, using WebEx, Google Hangouts, Cisco Jabber and now Zoom! I'm currently having a Z88 feeding frenzy on YouTube. Tyler is up at the moment and doing a sterling job! You chaps should invest in some microphones though - either some USB headset/mics or some half-decent USB table-top condensers. There is a lot of room ambience on the recordings because I guess you're using laptop internal mics, which makes them hard work, although I'm using a headset which helps a lot. Also the graphics/legends on Phantom are really totally unclear - even with the YouTube maximised on a large 1920x1080 monitor they are all unreadable - and the "External Monitor" pane is not much better. I know the desk, but it would be tough for a newcomer to try and keep track. Anyway keep up the good work and keep safe. Kevin

I've got a store full of Z88 product to be going on with so the home page is not somewhere I visit much (unless you've designed a new one and point me there to comment on it). Don't do Facebook or Twitter. So maybe worth dropping a post into News and Announcements on the Forum for this sort of thing? Thanks, Kevin

(Shameless thread steal, but I think it's run its course!) Hi Edward, I was completely unaware you were running these online sessions - although clearly they were publicised somewhere as I heard you mention @Lufferov early on. I must be going blind - I don't see any mention of them in News & Announcements, General Discussion or the FLX Forums (FLX Training and Videos last updated in 2015) - so where/how? I didn't get any email notifications either that I'm aware of (I do indeed receive a fair number of Forum notification emails and they don't go into 'Spam'). Anyway, I've watched the one you linked above - very interesting - well at least I learned you can use the Shift key in Fixture Setup to enable column sort 🙂 I'm off over to YouTube now to give the Ethernet video a spin, and probably all of the rest in good time... Hope you and the team are all well. Regards, Kevin (ps Is Jon morphing into Tyler with that facial hair? 🤣 Oh no! I see it's worse than that! Tyler has GIVEN Jon his facial hair!!! Watch out Edward, Keith's hair is comin' after you....!!! Arrrrggghhh It's already happened!!! Nat - run, run, run, NOW!!! Oh dear, working from home must finally be getting to me....) (pps What's going on at Z88. Tyler thinks he's Ronnie Corbett!)

My French is on the (cough) poor side, but these are great Eric. Clearly a lot of work has gone into them. Great work! I hope you get favourable feedback from our French colleagues! Kevin

I always wondered if ‘Stomping’ has anything to do with this. Edward did explain Stomping to me somewhere here (and I don’t think it was what I expected!). However there is ‘Allow Stomping’ somewhere in the playback options I think. Have a play!

Yes you can rename the fixtures. Again in Setup when you have the list of patched fixtures, the second column defaults to the fixture name, but you can edit that name like other fields. These names will be used on the Output Screen and in the fader pane on an external display (FLX, FLX-S48 or FLX-S24 via Monitor app). I'm not aware you can add any other text/notes. And the name will get truncated on the Output Screen. (Where a sequence of fixtures have the same name, e.g. Dimmer, then the name can span the width of the fixtures so is less likely to get truncated. So put the "important bit" at the start of the name, so title them e.g. "SR Wash", "SL Wash" not "Wash SR" and "Wash SL", then at worst you'll get something like "SR W" and "SL W" rather than "Wash" and "Wash"!

Channel (fixture) number and DMX address are independent. So you can configure fixture #2 (channel fader #2) to DMX address 6 for example. You do this under Setup. You can tap and renumber the fixture, providing that fixture (channel) number is not already used. The output screen will follow the Channel (fixture) number so you can't for example have a different fader order to the order shown on the screen - because I think that would drive you to madness anyway! I hope this what you're looking for... Kevin

No, tha's Ollie's FLX 🤣

Apparently this topic is now HOT!

Ollie - interested how you get on. I bought Capture (at great expense) a fair few months back, but to date haven't had the guts to try and connect it to FLX... (desk or Phantom).

I was first for a change! 🤩😝 (no accounting for quality of course!!!)

Hi Ollie, Does anything in this recent thread help? Kevin

Lights off but Effect still running is a common issue. It’s probably because you had Smart Tag enabled when you tried to record ‘No Effect’ and the lights at 0. Smart Tag doesn’t save the No Effect. So what you have to do is run the cue where the lights go off and the effect should stop (but don’t), select the lights that are in the effect, select No Effect from the Effects palette. Then press Update to get the Record Options pane up then deselect Smart Tag, then ok the Update. Then clear the programmer, go back a few cues then run through and make sure the Effect now stops when you need it to. Of course if you need the Effect to start again in a later cue you’ll need to go to that one and enable the effect again. Hope that helps. Kevin

Whoaaaaaaaaa! 👍 (Z88 marketing guys are livid. Image picker gets disabled in next version of ZerOS!)

Martin, Don't worry about it. Hope it's going well otherwise! What's going wrong with your tracking that's causing you issues? Don't forget you can use Update with Cue Only and Track Forwards (and Track Backwards although I've never used that one). Also with FLX you can go back to Cue Only mode if you want and also you can turn the whole cue stack into snapshot cues then work your new stuff using Tracking on.

Neil - Probably better to post this query on the Blue Room. http://www.blue-room.org.uk/

I don't think so, sorry. ETA: Doh, beaten again by a better answer!

This is the DMX map for the fixture: https://www.robe.cz/index.php?type=10898&tx_odproducts_f[action]=downloadFile&tx_odproducts_f[file]=robe/downloads/dmx_charts/Robin_MiniMe_DMX_charts.pdf If you only want 8-bit control for the Pan and Tilt you could write a fixture definition that did not include channels 2 and 4 (the "fine" channels). However you will get the "lumpy" control as I describe above. An interesting little fixture that Robe!

Like it! 👍

Fixture definition looks good. As David says, you only want to tag your Param1 (or Param2) parameter (which ever one controls the height) when you program the playback. Also there may be a setting to ensure only this one parameter is tagged otherwise tagging one beamshape parameter may cause all parameters in the beamshape attribute to be tagged. Other option is to move the height parameter to Position (where it's the only parameter) then you don't have to worry so much.

ETA - David just beat me to it! You can do ‘Fader Controls’ and set it to Beamshape. SETUP+Playback Button Not sure if the fader still controls intensity too. If you have other parameters on Beamshape maybe move this one onto Position so it’s on its own. I’ll have a look at your fixture profile in a while - we’ll get it working somehow! Kevin