Park Macros

It doesn't seem possible to create a proper Park Macro. Learning a Macro, I open Park, Put Some Channels in it, close park and go back to live. Learn another one to remove those channels from Park. Playing back you'll see that the console goes crazy, often unparking every thing in Park. Editing the Park macro often has disastrous results. I tried removing some commands out of the macro, like RESET_CMD or whatever, and the other one in there that said preview something. Playing it back obviously doesn't work, but now it puts the console into an odd state where pushing Park once on the console will open the park view right away (instead of double pushing park). Only an Exit will save the desk and bring it back to normal.

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BSmith over 17 years ago

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I've been successful with park macros that don't go to the Park screen.

On- (ch) @ Full Park Enter

Off- (ch) @ Park Enter

Brent
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jabadger over 17 years ago in reply to BSmith

BSmith:
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I've been successful with park macros that don't go to the Park screen.

On- (ch) @ Full Park Enter

Off- (ch) @ Park Enter

Brent
My problem with this though is that there isn't a finite way to say Unpark, it just toggles. Case in point, if you run your "off" macro twice in a row, it will cycle those channels between being parked and not parked. I need to have the macros built in such a way that the operator can't screw it up.
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tryggve over 17 years ago in reply to jabadger

Oops..
good point!
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BSmith over 17 years ago in reply to jabadger

Are you sure about that?

I thought that "(ch) Park Enter" would park the ch at the current level while "(ch) @ Park Enter" would only unpark the parked channel. It should'nt do anything if the channel isn't parked. If that is the case, I hope someone will fix it.
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jabadger over 17 years ago in reply to BSmith

Yeah, if you keep hitting (ch) @ Park Enter it will toggle the selection between being in Park and Unparked.
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Sammy over 14 years ago in reply to jabadger

It might also be worth noting if you use the Macro On (channel @ Full Park Enter) in Blind, it will just set that channels value to full in blind.

It might be worth putting infront of your syntax to park a channel, to clear the syntax and go to Live?
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Sammy over 14 years ago in reply to jabadger

It might also be worth noting if you use the Macro On (channel @ Full Park Enter) in Blind, it will just set that channels value to full in blind.

It might be worth putting infront of your syntax to park a channel, to clear the syntax and go to Live?
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Tim Wilson over 14 years ago in reply to Sammy

I have observed toggling with the parking off macros I have made as well. However, I haven't found this to be a problem and have been using these for years now. I also am in the habit of looking at the Park screen occasionally to see what is going on there. That is part of my troubleshooting routine now. If someone comes up with a way around the unpark toggle I'd like to hear about it but I am ok with how it works currently. Of course for an new operator it could be confusing.
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Tim Wilson over 14 years ago in reply to Tim Wilson

Ok I just read a post from Graham Parker and there is a solution. He writes,

"You can now add 'Enable' or 'Disable' into macros which previously toggled a state.

So, as you have discovered, previously [Ch] [Park] [Enter] would Park a channel if it wasn't currently parked, and un-park a channel if it was currently parked.

Now you can make a macro which reads [Ch] [Park] {Disable} [Enter] [Enter] - so if your channels are parked they will be un-parked, if they are not parked they will be unaffected.

Enable and Disable are available in the softkeys area of the Macro editor."

I tested this and it does away with the toggle action.

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