Eos Nomad NOOB needs help, please!

Hi, all. I'm really way more of an audio guy, so this lighting stuff is confusing me to no end. Here's my scenario:

I have ETC Nomad running on a laptop. I have the dongle. I have a Gadget II interface. I have a spare ColorSource PAR light as my test subject (although I believe it's putting out erroneous colors, which is why it's a bench spare now...but it does seem to still work).

I'm attaching a diagram of what my current setup at work looks like. It's a mixture of DMX controllers and PAR lights. The laptop that used to run all of this crashed, so I installed Nomad on a fresh laptop. I don't have any old configuration files to go by, but I traced out all the light wiring myself, so I know the information in the diagram is accurate. Ultimately, this is what I'm trying to control. However, since I'm an absolute NOOOOB with Nomad, for now I'm just trying to learn how to control the single light I mentioned earlier.

Every video I've tried watching starts right out of the gate talking about patching and the Live Table, and setting up cues, etc. Whoa, slow down! For now, is there a quickstart that teaches a clown like me how to just turn one light on and off?

Thanks for any help. 

Studio Lights generic.pdf

  • Quickstart

    Open the patch tab (press the + sign on the tabs at the bottom of the screen and chose patch) then type a channel number eg 1

    press A (for at) 

    press 1 (the DMX address you have set you PAR to - assuming it is 1)

    press enter to save that.

    Click in the Type column on the grid

    then at the bottom of the screen select Search and type colorsource in the box and find your fixture in the list (there maybe more than one patch profile for a fixture as most fixtures have several modes they can be setup in that use 1 or more dmx addresses eg intensity,red,green,blue etc)

    It should then show in the grid the chanel number 1, the address you chosen and ColourSource Par 5ch or whatever you chose.

    Then on the virtual keyboard click on Live

    The type in 

    1 F enter

    and the fixture should go to full.

    To control the color easiest is to open the color picker tab (+ on the tab bar and color picker)

    Make sure the channel number eg 1 above is still on the command line and then your can pick any colour with the mouse.

    Hope that helps

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