WYSIWYG 2-way console communication

Question

Will EOS Family Consoles allow 2-way console communication with WYSIWYG? Thinking of back in the Day with Expression Emphasis, could I select 30 lights on my console, and then click the mouse at a point on the stage in the PreViz and have all the lights go instantly to that point live on stage. Wondering if it is possible on an ION if using WYSIWYG software?

chadoli1 · Answer

FYI - I talked to WYSIWYG people. 
"The answer is yes, this is possible, but, at least for the time being, the functionality is not available with the ION console. 
 
WYSIWYG makes use of a proprietary protocol called AutoFocus, which can do exactly what you describe. That’s not all though: in addition to sending fixture selection information to the console, WYSIWYG’s Live Designer Tools can be used to send fixture control information to the console.. in other words, you can select the fixtures, turn them on, pan and tilt them (to a specific/exact Focus Position), AND change their colour (by mixing or colour wheels or both), gobo, prisms, iris and zoom. … And if the console was connected to a live rig, this control information would be output (in real time, of course) to the fixtures and they would react in real life the same as they would on the computer running WYSIWYG. 
 
In addition to this, WYSIWYG also features the proprietary AutoPatch protocol, which provides a means to upload the fixture patch from WYSIWYG to the console. This, of course, eliminates the need to patch multiple times (both for the initial patch and if patch changes are required, of course). 
 
I mentioned that these protocols are proprietary. This means that they can only work when they are built into a proprietary connectivity driver, built with the SDK that we provide to console manufacturers as part of our Registered WYSIWYG Developer program. Unfortunately, while ETC is part of this program, they have not yet created such a driver, choosing instead to rely on sACN for output to WYSIWYG for previsualization purposes—which brings us back to what I stated in the first paragraph above, i.e. that all this IS indeed possible, but cannot be done with the ION console."