Doh!...... and thats why these forums are so useful.... thankyou Florian... to be fair I had a feeling it was probably me...

American DJ Inno Spot Elite

DMX 9 - values 194 to 255 should be reversed

There are 6 "shutter open" buttons and there only needs to be one.

DMX 14 (Mspeed) 0-255 should be reversed.

button	Change to	dmx	Description
Posn Bl off	Delete this button	0	Does nothing
Posn Bl on	Focus Bl on	75	Off while moving (toggle)
Posn Bl off	Focus Bl off	85	On while moving (toggle)
Posn Bl off Clw Bl	Color Bl on	95	Off while color change (toggle)
Posn Bl off	Color Bl off	105	On while color change (toggle)
Posn Bl off Gbw Bl	Gobo Bl on	115	Off while gobo change (toggle)
Posn Bl off	Gobo Bl off	125	On while gobo change (toggle)

 

Every time I paste in to this stupid forum software it screws up the formatting but this should be a table delimited by tabs and paragraph marks. Email me if you can't read it.

 

John, as long as the formatting isn't working, just click "use rich formatting" and the paragraphs will survive

Yes, I tried that first. Then I tried enabling "use rich formatting" in the settings. It takes a while for the settings to update so I tried again this morning and it worked correctly. Sometimes this forum is just buggy for me. The table looks really nice now though!

Bright Shot RGBAW Illuminator: Multiple issuses on Ion/NET3

This was for a 1 day shoot, the rig has since beeen wrapped, so I can't apply any possible suggestions until I get my hands on another unit but here are the issues;

I patched this fixture several different ways and I was only able to control it when each attribute was patched as an indidvual generic dimmer.

Here are the particulars:
Console was an Ion 2000 and the rig consisted of 4 universes: 1&2 were all dimmers, 3 was Mac vipers and ColorForce 72s, universe 4 was dedicated to the Bright Shots. Originally The Bright Shots were in 3 with the rest of the smart lights, but after having control issues I moved them into their own universe.
The Bright Shots would not respond to any DMX commands when they were receiving DMX through the NET3 gateway. I ran DMX direct out of the console and was able to get them to respond-somewhat.

First I patched them as Luminator RGBAW fixtures from the Ion library. When pathced this way, random units would flash, blink and stobe when ANY DMX signal was sent over the network. The units would not respond to any INTS or Color levels, they only would flash momentarily if you set them to RED @ 75%, then go out and not respond again.

Then I patched them as Generic RGBAW 8bit units, with separate Channels for FX, Duration, Speed, etc which I grouped. This alllowed me to control Color and INTS in ML controls and they did respond, but the units still randomly froze on various colors and INTS even when I sent blackout commands, cleared cue lists, etc.

Finally I had to resort to patching them as 10ch generic dimmers. This worked and I was able to build groups, color palletes and effects-kinda like how you would run movers on an old 2X console-but it was less than ideal. Even when patched this way I still could not control them through the gateway, they needed to be DMX direct out of the console. I did try different gateways as well.

I called tech support and the owner of Bright Shot came and spent time teching out the units. They ran fine from his ipad as I expected. He also said he has this problem with the units on Ion all the time.


Here is the DMX value for the effects:

DMX Effect 255 Max Value 100 Max Value
None 0-5 0-1
Strobe 6-15 2-5
Chase jump 16-25 6-9
Chase Fade 26-35 10-13
Police Old 36-45 14-17
Police New 46-55 18-21
Fire truck Old 56-65 22-25
Fire truck New 66-75 26-29
Ambulance Old 76-85 30-33
Ambulance New 86-95 34-37
Fire 96-105 38-41
Water 106-115 42-45
Television 116-125 46-49
Lightning 126-135 50-52
Paparazzi1 136-145 53-56
Paparazzi2 146-155 57-60
Projector 156-165 61-64
Fireworks 166-175 65-68
Grand Finale 176-185 69-72
End Burst 186-195 73-76
Gun Shots 196-205 77-80
Strobe All White 206-255 81-100

The units use 2 cards, 1 for RGBAW+Ints, and another for the Effects layer, so that you can add effects on top of RGBAW output simultaneously. That being said I think the units need a profile like a DL3 that has a seprate graphic layer from the Global functions. Also having the ability to reset the fixture via lamp commands would be helpful.


The ETC profile has the fixture as follows:

Ion Profile Bright Shot
1 Red 1 Red
2 Green 2 Green
3 Blue 3 Blue
4 Amber 4 Amber
5 White 5 White
6 Ints 6 Ints (for color 1-5)
7 Color Temp 7 Color Temp
8 Color Mix 8 FX Duration
9 Color Mix Macro Rate 9 FX Frequency
10 Color Mix 2 10 FX Select
11 Hue
12 Saturation
13 Brightness

Here is the link to the manual down load.

http://briteshot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Luminator-RGBAW-Operations-Manual-V5.0-U10_11_12.pdf

RDM was off in the Gateway. The firmware issue makes alot of sense. I will contact Bright Shot and let them know.

Once I setup another Bright Shot I should be able to do more tests. Any other input is welcome.

 

 

Chauvet Q560Z

The 'Test' function on the Control channel (DMX range 160-169) doesn't work from the Lamp Controls button. The Lamp Controls button just sets the DMX value for 3 seconds then returns it to a 'no function' state. As with some of the other Control functions on this fixture (e.g. DIM0...DIM4) the DMX value has to be maintained for at least 3 seconds and then remain in place for the function to operate. The 'test' function really needs to be mapped as another option under the 'Mode' encoder rather than a Lamp Controls function. I proved this by patching a dimmer channel to the control channel of a Q560Z - setting the channel level to 65% (DMX ~166) caused the test function to activate after 3 seconds, and remained active until that channel was returned to another level

Hello, David:

We are working on getting this moved over for you.

Thank you,

The Chauvet Rogue R1 Spot has me a bit puzzled.

Note that I'm looking at this in Capture (new library 3/31/2015) Actual fixtures are a week or two out.

Nomad 2.2 library updated 4/2/2015

Multiple Shutter Open buttons! When you select the right most button you get the other two. The center one is then selected and the fixture is full open. The left most button seems to be Pulse at 12 but without speed control. I won't try to describe the pulse button actions, those selections may be mixed up. Or I don't understand it at all, I'm not a console guru.

There is also something funny going on with pulsing the Iris. Nothing happening at all.

Hello, David:

This will be resolved in fixture library patch v10.2.0 Build 63, which should be posted to the website today or tomorrow.

Thank you,

Hello, Rick:

I am sorry for these duplicates but I do no think this could be removed.

Thank you,

HighEnd Solaspot Pro 1500 works natively with A/B-shuttering but has Frame x In and Frame x Angle as real parameter. it should have Frame a x and Frame b x as real parameters and the In/Angle kind as virtual ones. havent' seen the fixture in real life yet, will report next week if the rest of the profile works.

Hello, Ueli! We are certainly interested in knowing how it goes in real life. The fixture definition seems to suggest that they should be real parameters for this particular fixture.

but they are not, that's what the manual and the dmx map by highend say...