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    Andrew Riter
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Macro for clearing parked addresses

Hi etc brain.

 I would like to write a macro that clears out Parked Addresses and restores it to the house park settings.

I have done this with the channels (Park Enter Live 76 Full Park Enter Clr_Command) where 76 is the house lights/aisle lights that I want parked. The first Park Enter clears any channels parked during the show, and the rest restores to the channel I want to be parked.

However, I can't do this with addresses.  From Live, Address Park gives me an error code before I can hit Enter.  I can clear a specific address from live, but not any and all addresses sight unseen.  The manual (1.4) states I should be able to clear all parked addresses by {SK} Address Park Enter.  I get the BEEP right between Park and Enter.

  I'm running  version 1.4.1.

I'm trying this because parked information doesn't re-load or clear with loading a show, so if I re-load a preset room patch after an event, any channels or addresses parked during that event will remain parked.

 Any brilliant Ideas?

 

Thanks.

  • Andrew, there appears to be a hole in our unparking logic where addresses are concerned.  Will get this to the developers to get addressed shortly. (sorry about that).  In the meantime, you need to know the addresses that you want to unpark, so you can build a macro that way.

    FYI, we pulled the park buffer out of the show file store/load data by popular demand.....

    More soon.

    a 

  • Seems to me from a play in the Mac OLE that you could do this with a macro that first takes you to park...something like

    [Park][Park]
    [Park][Enter][Enter]
    [7][6][At][Full][Enter]
    [Live]

    -luke-

  • in reply to luke.delwiche

    Luke, you can.  But that unparks channels as well.  

    a 

  • in reply to Anne Valentino

    I'm having a problem getting the Park [Enter] [Enter] command to work from a Macro executed by a cue.  It unparks the channels, but the addresses stay put.  Works fine when I manually run it, but not when it is executed via the Shut Down Cue.  I've read somewhere else on here that there was an issue with running macros that went into blind, but does that extend to park blind?

    I know the desk will dump the Park channels when shut down, but we leave the RPU running as Primary Master 24/7 so the rig never loses DMX before we get a chance to turn the hard powers on.

    My macro is like Luke's above...

    Park Park
    Macro Wait
    Macro Wait
    Park [Enter]
    [Enter]
    Macro Wait
    Macro Wait
    [Live]

    Although I put in a few extra waits so the operator can see what is happening.

    Any help appreciated,

    Kevin

     

  • in reply to kmclights

    Yo Kevin, on a complete side note, did you know you could add time to your macro waits, so you could type macro wait 3 instead of having 3 x macro waits. I know its nothing to do with the parking issue so ....sorry

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