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Hi all, Can someone remind me why the pause button is flashing after recording a cue. I can figure it out! Thanks

Exactly why we went with the insurance claim for a new one! I'll do some more testing with it, just a bit treppid that the thing will catch go bang or catch on fire!

Thanks for the replies. I'm not looking to get it up and running for ourselves. If our main one does fail I could get hold of one pretty quickly in an emergency. Just interested if it's worth anything to get some much needed funding for things like new fixtures etc. As Edward says there isn't really a market for spares so I wouldn't even know what price to put on it.

So a year or two ago we had a leak over a weekend which drenched our FLX. Insurance claim was made and we got a new one, however the insurance company didn't request we do anything with the old one. After taking it apart to inspect the damage and dry it out, the desk still powers on but I haven't tested it any further than that. There was some corrosion and black marks on some of the internals so I deffinitly wouldn't trust it. Sopke to support and a few local industry people and a new desk was deffinitly the way to go vs repair/replacement parts. So my question is, where do we stand and is there a market, if we wanted to try and raise some capital by selling it as spares on a generic auction type website? Thanks

Nor did I untill now. I ofter get issues with movers not MOD'ing and thought it was down to copying cues. Will try the update trick, so copy X to Y then go into Y, tap update, make sure smart tag is on (red stripe) and tap the playbacks button?

Do the lights flash on the etherbet socket when the flx is plugged in?

Have you tried plugging anything else into the port on the router to see if it gets an ip address. A laptop or desktop?

Thanks! Worked a dream!

Could some please remind me how to goto a cue that has an auto follow so I can edit it without the auto cue happening (I still want the auto cue to happen when running the show, just need to edit the preceeding cue) I could just turn the auto off and make the edit but there's like 20 want to change and it would be quicker to goto that cue and stop rather that turn it off and back on again. Thanks

Yeah I went into setup, deleted the fixture that added it again albeit on the same address, firstly to see if that would work, I was going to add it back on a different address but adding it back on the same address seemed to work. Thanks

Thanks Jon, that's also useful to know

So today I was a muppet and left 2 playbacks that control the fog and fan on our haze machine on while programming 2/3 of a show. First I thought I'd just go back to the start, lower the playbacks, record tracking forwards and that would sort it, but then I remembered I had altered the playbacks throughout the show. So what I have done is unpatched it then repatched, I then ran through some cues and it seems to have gone. Would this have worked?

Move on dark is the term used when your moving lights get into position before the cue they are used in. Cue 1 - light at position x Cue 2 - light off Cue 3 - light in position y So in the above example, the moving light will move to position y after Cue 2 has finished running, so they are in the correct position to come on when you call Cue 3

Thanks Jon, then set the fixtures to "no effect" in a later cue when I want to change colours?

So, if I remember, Red are channels that have been altered, eg you moved a fader, channel goes red, these take precedence over any playback. Green are channels which have lowered in intensites since the previous cue. Blue is channels which have increased in intensity since the last cue. Green - down towards the grass Blue - up to the sky I think grey is when a channel is ready for the next cue, I.e when move on dark has run although I might be wrong on that. The monitor can show your cues but not the values in those cues so helpful to name your cues so you can tell by the name what it is.

Hi people, Just running thoughts over in my head for a programming session tomorrow. If I had a set of fixtures on a set colour, next cue start rainbow effect, random offset, then next cue, stop the effect, the lights should stay on the last colours of the effect? Am I correct? Thanks

Hi Edward, No problem, thanks.

Hi all, Just a quick question. Is there a way to set the speed parameter of an effect to be the global tap tempo? Thanks

Hi all, Say I had a set of 20 fixtures, all the same but that doesn't matter, is there a quick way to program them all to go to from 0 to x% intensity, randomly, with slight delay between each one coming on instead of programming a 20 step chase or 20 auto triggered cues each time I want to do it. I could program a chase onto a playback then call that playback when I want to do it but I can't get my head round how I'd then further control them in following cues as surely the called playback would be have preference on the fixtures. Also how could I do this in reverse to have them all go off randomly. Thanks

But if using a splitter, put one on the last fixture on each split correct?

Hi Edward, Thanks for that. Makes total sense now. I keep forgetting to turn smart tag back on after turning it off to stop an effect or something, gonna print me a big label to put on the desk with saying "TURN SMART TAG BACK ON!!!!" 😂😂😂 Thanks

Can someone answer this to put my mind at ease.... In tracking mode, active playbacks will not be recorded into other playbacks when you press record. In cue only mode they will? Thanks

I know its best practice to use a terminator in your last fixture in a dmx line but if that fixture has both 3 and 5 pin sockets, should you put on in each? Thanks

Hi Edward, Thanks for confirming and making the feature request so quickly.

Hi all, Apologies if this has been bought up before, I did a search and couldn't find anything. So yesterday I had the great opportunity and experience of taking a group of our students to our local theatre to perform as past of the National Theatre Connections program. They had a range of ETC consoles, which of course I didn't know how to use but their technicians were able to program our show from my cue list and could then leave us to run the rehershals and actuall evening show ourselves. Obviously I didn't have many take aways from using the ETC (think it was some kind of GIO, the had a large one with two built in screens plus a remote one for me to run the show from) as I was mostly pressing a go button, but what their tech was doing seemed pretty straight forward. The one big take away I did have though was the external monitor was able to be in portrait mode, so I could pretty much see all my queues on one screen. So my question is, can the FLX switch its external monitor to portrait mode? I can't find a setting fir it so I'm guessing not, but thought I'd ask. Thanks