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Hello,

We are a small theater company in Canada.   We have the gadget II and dongle and EOS nomad, but havent used it for a few years and forgotten a lot.

I am trying to set something simple up for a small one man show in a  circle in the round.  Perhaps 5 to 10 cues would be enough. There will be an audience of only 30 or 40.   I am using my own Apple Air.   A different computer was used before. 

I have downloaded all the software, and attached the gadget and the dongle, and an Orion Orcan 4 light. 

I have watched several of the videos and read the manual but I cant even get one light to turn on

I am wondering if someone could help me get started on all this.   I would be willing to pay someone to help me.   Maybe over Zoom?

I am pretty competent overall with different computer systems, but cant figure this out. 

A few simple questions:
Does the setting on the Orion light matter?

The dongle has a SIM And ID number attached to it.  Is there something I should have done with this?   Is this new computer connecting correctly to the dongle?

I am guessing that there is something fairly simple I am missing.

Any Help would be appreciated. 

Sjahari Hollands

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    Welcome back to the light side. I can't find a fixture profile that is specifically for that lamp but if you patched a generic RGBAWUv in 6 channel mode and you set your fixture to 6 channel mode and then set the addresses to ...well lets start simple, 1 and then on the console give it a channel number 1 at address 1/1 (universe 1) this fixture should work. Of course you will need to answer the questions from above. Connect the fixture to power and then the DMX1 output of the gadget and test. 

    Watch the video on patching the multi parameter fixtures on youtube and this will guide you through doing this. in fact all the ETC videos are great and will help you program your cues to a point. then is is about experimenting.

    I hope this information helps you out a bit.

    Merry Christmas

    Geoff

  • 0 in reply to Geoff Crisp

    I have done everything and no luck turning my light on.  

    Just want to start with something simple like that.  Any chance someone could help me online?

  • 0 in reply to sjahari

    We are in such a different time zone. I am from the future. well your future. You could also try the facebook group and find someone closer. Or attach your show file and we can take a look it to see what you have,

  • 0 in reply to Geoff Crisp

    Time as you know is relative.  Many wonder whether or  it actually exists.  In any case, Space and time go together.   I have space in my theater, if you had the time maybe we could figure out a way  together for me to get some  lights working in my space.  

    I suspect that I am missing something quite simple here, but for the life of me I cant figure it out.   It cant be that difficult. 

    If you give me a time in your zone we could maybe have a meeting.   I am willing to pay you a modest rate for maybe an hour ?  Although I dont know how I could get it to you. 

  • 0 in reply to sjahari

    I am thinking that on Zoom we could share my screen.

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