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sACN input over show control

Hello

I am currently working on a show file to allow touring companies to tie into our rig using sACN. Currently the rig spans 5 universes, which isn’t ideal when they only have 1 or 2 universes available on their desk.

The set up will allow them to plug into a Net3 gateway set as an input to universe 101, and then have a showfile patch each channel in that universe to control certain fixtures.

I have no problem in configuring all this, e.g 512 events, Event 1 takes sACN 101/1 and controls 1/1, Event 2 takes 101/2 and controls 1/2 etc however it’s very time consuming doing this 512 (or 1024+) times.

Does anyone know a quick way I can select event 1 thru 512 and quickly assign sACN and actions on a 1 to 1 channel basis in a few clicks. I’ve managed to create a basic macro which reduces the amount of clicks but I still have to do this process for each event. I’ve tried the “obvious” syntax guesses (e.g Event 1 thru 512 sACN 100/1 thru 100/512 enter) but this just assigns 100/1 thru 100/512 to every event.

Apologies if this makes little sense, but hopefully if you have done something similar yourself it may make some sense.

Many thanks

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    I should first say that this is Not a Good Idea.  The Eos software certainly lets you assign an arbitrary number of sACN Inputs into those Event Lists, but it's possible you may overwhelm Eos' processing capability by having it "watch" and translate this data.  I don't know what scale we've tested this feature to, but I suspect it's maybe 10 or 20 sACN inputs, not hundreds or thousands.  Others on the Forum may have more experience about doing this at this scale.

    A better solution may be to use ETC Gateway's Advanced Input Patch options, along with universe Priorities, to get the set of control you are looking for.  That way, the processing is all done in the Gateway and Eos is none-the-wiser.

    But, with that heavy caveat in mind.... If you create an event 1 / 512, Eos will automatically create the other 511 events before it.  So, typing in Event 2 / 512 will create a list of 512 Events.  If you assign a couple of sACN addresses to each list, then perform a CSV Export, you should see that the data is pretty straightforward.  I used Excel to quicky copy-paste-and-increment the list (but watch out for "event 0" - don't assign an sACN address there)

    After you've edited that file, re-import it to a new, blank Eos showfile, save, and then merge in your normal showfile.  (Keep in mind that CSV Import, or any other kind of import for that matter, will first completely wipe your showfile before loading the data of the CSV).

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    I should first say that this is Not a Good Idea.  The Eos software certainly lets you assign an arbitrary number of sACN Inputs into those Event Lists, but it's possible you may overwhelm Eos' processing capability by having it "watch" and translate this data.  I don't know what scale we've tested this feature to, but I suspect it's maybe 10 or 20 sACN inputs, not hundreds or thousands.  Others on the Forum may have more experience about doing this at this scale.

    A better solution may be to use ETC Gateway's Advanced Input Patch options, along with universe Priorities, to get the set of control you are looking for.  That way, the processing is all done in the Gateway and Eos is none-the-wiser.

    But, with that heavy caveat in mind.... If you create an event 1 / 512, Eos will automatically create the other 511 events before it.  So, typing in Event 2 / 512 will create a list of 512 Events.  If you assign a couple of sACN addresses to each list, then perform a CSV Export, you should see that the data is pretty straightforward.  I used Excel to quicky copy-paste-and-increment the list (but watch out for "event 0" - don't assign an sACN address there)

    After you've edited that file, re-import it to a new, blank Eos showfile, save, and then merge in your normal showfile.  (Keep in mind that CSV Import, or any other kind of import for that matter, will first completely wipe your showfile before loading the data of the CSV).

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