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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. 

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    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

  • 0 in reply to Mike A

    Great stuff! So, I went ahead and set my test light to Addy 30 on the light. I followed your steps (but using 30 instead of 1) and it's doing what you said. Thanks. Now...I notice that in my Patch window, the upper part is showing next to Channel 1 Addresses of 30-34. I'm putting together that this light is a 5-channel fixture, with Channel 1 being Intensity, 2 being Red, 3 Green, 4 Blue and 5 is the Strobe (according to the light's manual). Do these "channels" correspond to the 5 "addresses"? Is Ch 1 the same as Addy 30, Ch 2 is Addy 31, etc? 

    Thanks for helping me out. I'm sure once I get these early parts figured out, I'll be ok. I still have those DMX controllers to solve, but for now I'm happy with my test light.

  • 0 in reply to pcwvec

    Modern lighting control software makes it easier to work with devices that needs lots of addresses.  So the channel refers to the physical fixture,  so channel 1 is light 1 and channel 2 is another light which might be at address 35-39.  

    (It would be impossible to work with the more advanced lights like moving heads if you had to set the value of each DMX address manually eg the moving heads I took delivery of this weekend run in 26 or 32 address modes)

    The channels concept is also useful as you can swap the fixture type and the colour params etc will still go to the right dmx address even if say the light just had Red, Green, Blue and no separate intensity channel.

  • 0 in reply to Mike A

    I'm starting to get it. Side question: My DMX controllers are these Inphase DMX 5204 units. I take it these also have their own set of addresses. I don't see "Inphase" in my list of Manufacturers, however. Not sure how to add a channel for these, and I have several set to different addresses.

  • 0 in reply to pcwvec

    Yes there is probably not a named patch for these. 

    A google search seemed to suggest that they have Intensity, Strobe, Red, Green, Blue in that order.

    If in the search you type ISRGB you will get some generic patches that might work for this.  

    You are slightly in the trial an error zone, unless you have an accurate dmx chart for the device, which is sometimes not the case with what is in the manuals of the fixture. 

    So if there is not a prebuilt patch for you fixture you can copy an existing one and edit it, but that is a perhaps a bit of a big step at this stage,  So trying to find one of those generic ones that matches is going to be the quickest for you.

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    Yes there is probably not a named patch for these. 

    A google search seemed to suggest that they have Intensity, Strobe, Red, Green, Blue in that order.

    If in the search you type ISRGB you will get some generic patches that might work for this.  

    You are slightly in the trial an error zone, unless you have an accurate dmx chart for the device, which is sometimes not the case with what is in the manuals of the fixture. 

    So if there is not a prebuilt patch for you fixture you can copy an existing one and edit it, but that is a perhaps a bit of a big step at this stage,  So trying to find one of those generic ones that matches is going to be the quickest for you.

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