Homing Movers

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.

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