Issue In Patch - EOS

Bryan,

It looks like you made the Channels RGBA's but then patched Dimmers into them.

This is what works for me-

Make addresses 5/1 thru 32 Type RGBA.

Then patch by channel- [601 thru 608 @ 5/1]

At least I think that's how it works for me.

Hope it helps, B

Opps, sorry.  Turns out that doesn't work.  It's confusing because that does work with my scrollers (one address per) but not the multi param toys.

Try this instead:

Patch by channel. [601 thru 608 Type Generic RGBA]  (just like you did before)

Then with the same command line, add [ @ 5/1]

If your addresses are all sequential, that will patch all 8 channels at once.

If not, you can do them one at a time as long as you are patching by channel.

I had to get used to this since I have always patched everything by Dimmer in the past.

Good luck, B

Hi Brian

The reason you ended up with 4 additional parts is due to the syntax you used.  If you type in:
[601 @ 5/1 + 5 + 9 + 13] the console will interpret this as you wanting to patch 4 addresses to the one channel.  These will be patched as additional parts to the channel

Brent Smith's patch instructions should work a charm

Cheers

BFJ 

So I think I read your question differently.

I read your post as you having 32 individually addressed RGBA Units. So Unit 1 is DMX 1-4, unit 2 is DMX 5-8 and so on. You then want to patch 4 LED units per single channel. So channel 601 needs to have 4 parts, each part as an RGBA generic. Is that right?

If not, then sorry for hijacking the thread, but my question to others out there is if they would find it helpful that a channel in Patch auto assume that any newley created parts are of the same type as the initial channel so that Bryan's above syntax would work? Of course having a  Thru would be great as then the syntax could  be 601 Part 1-4 Address 5/1? Just wondering if its just me.

I gotta ask the question....why not just have each channel 'set' of LEDs addressed identically??

 You are not gaining any extra control by having them addressed seperately but patched to the same channel. And it would mean the syntax 601 thru 608 Address 5/1 would patch all your units sequentially as you want them.

Or have I missed something?

W

I can't speak for Bryan, but I know for myself, in one venue I work in, we have 20 scrollers that are "permanently" individually addressed to something up in the 400's. Then depending on how they are used in the show, if we have a couple we want to control together, its easier (at least to me) to just patch them together than to actually re-address the fixture and worry about someone changing the label on the back of the unit. While scrollers aren't that bad to address, I can imagine if you are working with a bunch of ColorBlasts / iCove etc... you'd rather want to patch them together rather than re-zapi them every show.

Just my personal thinking.

Fair point!

... or you can keep them apart, and work them as a group... Thats what I do.