Trying to see the status of RX String on Magic sheet

Hey Everyone,

Im a Senior at Arizona State and we are currently in our first day of tech. I am wondering if there is away to see the status of a backround macro on my magic sheet. We have a few cue stacks being triggered by our sound designer using OSC. However, we would not like to have RX String enabled the whole time. We have already made a macro that enables and disables RX String but the only way we can see if its enabled or not is on the live tab. Personally I think that is a good enough indicator but the idea was brought up to see if we can have the status displayed on the magic sheet in some way. I was thinking of having the macro button change colors when RX String is enabled versus when it is disabled but I cant figure out how to make that happen. I know you can have a button show intensity and color but I'm not sure on how to think that to an enable and disable macro. Hopefully this isnt too confusing and someone is able to help me out.

Thanks!!

Brian

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RickR over 9 years ago

A pretty general purpose method is to trigger a dummy channel. I'm not up on string states but I'm sure someone will correct me if this has an issue.

Create a channel that will not interfere with the rest of the show. In your macro turn it on/off red/green or whatever you like. In the MS an object can then show that channel. I like to stack something like this under a clear command button, so it looks like one object.

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RickR over 9 years ago

A pretty general purpose method is to trigger a dummy channel. I'm not up on string states but I'm sure someone will correct me if this has an issue.

Create a channel that will not interfere with the rest of the show. In your macro turn it on/off red/green or whatever you like. In the MS an object can then show that channel. I like to stack something like this under a clear command button, so it looks like one object.

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Brood1 over 9 years ago in reply to RickR

Yes It does. Thanks so much. We were thinking of doing that but we wanted to see if you could do it without a dummy channel.
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ueliriegg over 9 years ago in reply to Brood1

there is a way. you can add an object for e. g. IntPalette 999 and have its label displayed. you add (without magic sheet object) IPs 997 and 998 that are called RXon and RXoff respectively. with your macros you copy either IP 997 or 998 to 999. don't forget in the macro to add a double enter to confirm the overwriting.
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