Park information in saved shows

I've had a number of panicked calls recently with folks telling me their movers and LEDs stop working after a firmware update or loading a new show. After some experimentation it turns out all of them are losing their parked addresses providing power to the PSUs. Now, I know that everyone really should keep careful paperwork on which addresses are providing power to the various devices, and clever macro writing can be a wonderful thing, but it would be pretty great if park information could be included in saved show files and recalled by loading a show. Better to prevent a crisis than avert one! Any chance of getting this feature in an upcoming update?

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Anne Valentino over 13 years ago

Hi there. Yes, it is on the list to make loading the park buffer an option when opening a showfile. When you open a showfile, though, you will have to specifically ask for the park buffer to reload.

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Anne Valentino over 13 years ago

Hi there. Yes, it is on the list to make loading the park buffer an option when opening a showfile. When you open a showfile, though, you will have to specifically ask for the park buffer to reload.

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BTevelow over 13 years ago in reply to Anne Valentino

Perfect! That's exactly the solution I was hoping for.

Thanks Anne!
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brucek over 13 years ago in reply to Anne Valentino

Any chance configuration info, like port settings, and priorities, enabled protocols, etc can also get saved. Even if it isn't part of the show file, it would be nice to be able to do the quick restore when things stop working.
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Anne Valentino over 13 years ago in reply to brucek

We also have on our list that those should be saved in a separate config file that can be recalled from the shell. We don't intend to attach it to a showfile. There are some items that we may move from the shell into setup.

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jrgoss over 13 years ago in reply to Anne Valentino

Sorry to hijack the thread, but this is sort of related.
When loading between two variations of the same show file I have two shielded exclusive submasters that jump to full, regardless of their state when the show file is saved (they control our haze machines). The weird thing is that the submasters themselves don't move, but the values default to full. I have to run the faders up to grab control, & then all is ok.
I can send/attach a show file if necessary.
Thanks!

[edited by: jrgoss at 5:49 PM (GMT -6) on Fri, Aug 17 2012]
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