Best practice to control relays from Eos

Question

Hello we recently replaced some dimmers with Relays. 
 To switch on the Relays on our Sensor rack I made a Sub 610 to turn them on with a macro. 
 Solution A wich I use now is: set the priority to Shielded and Exclude Rec. 
 But now I came across a showfile by someone else and they used a different approach: 
 Solution B has the sub at Priority 10, a channel filter, and Exclude Rec / GM / Solo / Inhib 
 In what way does the sub (or relays) behave different with these settings? 
 And what do you think would be best practice?

eos moderator · Answer

The difference is how they handle manual control and in competing playback values of the same priority: 
 A: Shielded protects the content against other non-sub sources, they win against other playback with priorities 1 through 10 and against manual values. The only possible competition are other shielded subs (since cuelists can only go to priority 10). 
 B: A priority 10 sub will lose against manual values and is subject to LTP/HTP competition from other sources with priority 10. 
 Does this help?

eos moderator · Answer

As an alternative you could consider parking addresses (like krabe suggested) or creating a fixture profile with lamp controls.

Best practice to control relays from Eos

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