Homing Movers

I'm not sure if you are asking a more advanced question than what my answer is going to be, but there is a home key (at least on the Ion, I am sure it has to be on Eos as well). So, you would say, [chan] [thru] [chan] [home] [enter] and this should bring them all back to 50/50, clear, etc, etc. 

Nope, nothing more advanced than that... just didn't realize there was a home button.  Thank you!

Mark, additionally, if for some reason you don't like the home position for a parameter, you can write a preset that includes the fixtures/parameters you'd like to modify the home value for.  This preset is then assigned in setup.   Any lights not included in the preset will home to their library value.   You can home at a category or parameter level as well.

Hope that helps.

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I think there may be a misunderstanding on terminology - what I think is being requested is access to rehome the *fixture*, as exists in the control functions such that it internally recalibrates it's pan and tilt center points.  The home button on the Ion simply sends values for 50%/50%, and if the fixture is off, won't help correct the situation.

I may be mistaken, but the only time I have ever heard the term "rehome" used in the context of a mover in this industry is to recalibrate the fixture, not to send it to it's neutral position from the console . . . . .

In any case, if they do want a fixture rehome, and the fixture has control functions implemented, I would think that selecting all the fixtures and then executing control/home would do it . . . . As to whether you can rehome just position vs. the entire fixture depends on the fixture - for instance, my High End X-Spots can rehome just functions or modules,  but a lot of fixtures don't have that capability.

- Tim

Perhaps.  In Eos/Ion land, calibration functions (generally driven by the control channel) are found under lamp controls.  If the manufacturer supports a partial "recalibration" of this fixture, these are exposed in the lamp controls as well.   "Home" in our world is a different function.... which may or may not reset the resultant parameter to its library default, based on use of the home preset - and is not related to the granularity of calibration supported by the manufacturer.  Calibrating the device is also not going to change what the rig output is.  When the device is recalibrated, it will return to what the current output says it should be doing when appropriate.   Homing the fixture changes what the live screen shows the device is doing.

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MarkLNeumann said:

... without doing a global reset on the fixture?

Ummm, just my own opinion, but I would think Mark is not referring to "home" in the High End sense of resetting the fixture, as you can see from the quote above.

Yes, I was trying to avoid doing a reset, just didn't realize the "home" button was even there in front off me.

Mark.... that has been known to happen!!   Feel free to post with any questions about how it works!  :-)

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I guess the reason I got confused is that a reset would not ultimately change where the light is pointed - the fixture would recal, and go right back to where the console was directing it to go(unless it was out of calibration).  Home on the ION will send it to the "home" values on the console, but not correct errant calibration, so if calibration is off, home (in ION speak) still won't be in the right place . . . .

Since these two functions would appear to be similar in name only, and totally different in result, it had me wondering . . . .

Myself, if I need to go to 50/50 (or whatever) I never found it that hard to just dial the encoders to that value,  but YMMV, and the home key is a useful shortcut if you need to move a bunch of stuff that is in various positions.  Heck, if the console didn't have the home key, this could also be accomplished quite easily with a position palette as well . . . .

- Tim