Snapshots with fade time?

Record a Cue!

Any specific reason you are sticking to fader?

Ease of use for other users. We're not doing full productions and teaching others how to use the system is not really feasible, so a visual and manipulate-able representation of what lights are on loaded onto one screen and the ability to flip between "presets" and have that visual representation update to match is ideal. We do have an echotouch system which has similar functionality to what I'm seeking, but requires flipping to different pages and color changing takes a lot of presses as well.

Snapshots are for the display layouts, not for the actual DMX control. That's what cues are for. I'm not 100% on what your requirements are exactly, do cues solve the problem?

I need to be able to store the current lighting, recall it later, and update faders to match the lighting. So if a light is at 50% intensity in the preset you are loading, the fader will get updated to 50% to match.

Unless I missed something, neither presets nor cues update faders to reflect what is on stage, and I haven't found a way to set a fader/sub level based on a channel's level.

I did come up with a solution that involves moving around multiple faders and changing sub priority, which takes a lot of macro manipulation, but it works. Basically it lowers the priority on the currently loaded subs, saves the current preset, recalls the preset you want to load, loads the new faders while transitioning to the new preset, then once the transition is over raises the priority of the new active subs.

TBH it would probably be less work to code my own application, but at least it works.Also, snapshots that include faders do send DMX commands when loaded.

Seems like an extremely simple request. You just want to have the virtual faders match cues as cues are called. It doesn't seem like you can with Eos on its own.

You'll be able to do it in my software though, which remote-controls Eos. That upgrade will be in the beta release of Alva Sorcerer 2, probably coming in a couple months.

I tryed something and there is a special situation where it could work.

You need to be on Element/Element2 or use EOS with an external Faderwing.
You will than switch your faderwing to Channelmode and still can recorde Cues and use the Cues with all the timing and the Fader would display the current output.

But only with one of those two conditions.

I didn't managed to set the Gio-Fader into Channel-Mode(probably Ti and Apex will behave the same) and i don't know if an IONxe-20 is able to use the Channel-mode (moste likely but i can not test)

You can set the Ion Xe20's faders to channel mode by holding the [FaderPage] button pressed and then hitting the bump button of fader 20.

While FaderPage is pressed the fader display will show this for the last faders:

This is what you'll see afterwards:

The above is a copy and paste directly from the moderator’s post from a few months ago on a different subject.