Remote firing macros

To get you started:

You can find the pinout of the connector here

The definition of what happens when a contact is closed happens in the Show Control tab. More info here

Thank you for that, I will review the console's show control settings when I get back to the venue.  What the venue has, from a previous setup utilizing an Express 250, is a 4 button remote that was used to run a few basic cues.  So that piece of hardware is in place.  I just need to figure out how to assign the 4 buttons to specific macros on the XE.      

Thank you for that, I will review the console's show control settings when I get back to the venue.  What the venue has, from a previous setup utilizing an Express 250, is a 4 button remote that was used to run a few basic cues.  So that piece of hardware is in place.  I just need to figure out how to assign the 4 buttons to specific macros on the XE.      

Here is the Express pinout, just in case you want to compare something

Terrific.

Hi there.  So looking at this at the venue, I'm still in a bit of a fog.  I see that the Express pinout fires Macros 1901 through 1902 - I guess that is in the architecture.  

But honestly I don't know how to set something like that up on the Ion.  Could you explain to me how I assign specific macros to the pinout for the Ion?  Much obliged if you could walk me through it.

Still a lot for me to learn...

That's what you want it to look like:

This is tab 11. In the bottom half you have event lists, in the top half there are the events within that event list.

You'll need an event list of type Analog. The source is whatever you put in as Source Id in Setup > Device > ShowControl > Contacts:

Back to tab 11. You'll need to have External enabled to make it work. Toggling this to Off is a simple way to temporarily deactivate the remote trigger.

Within this event list create events. The addresses again reference what you entered in setup. And finally the Action is what you want the console to do when triggered. You can choose between Cue, Sub and Macro.

Does that help?

Ah, great.  I think the "Enabled" status might be where I'm having a problem.  But this helps.  I'll look at it again.

Thank you.