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Any Mac or PC with the Eos/Ion off-line software can run in mirror mode, as a connection to the console via a hub or via the console RJ45 jack (if the console is running DMX direct out of the DMX ports) with a Cat5 cable (or via WiFi).  The design table PC/Mac screen(s) only mirror what the console sees.  That means any time the console operator switches/modifies the console screens, that action is mirrored at the design table.  Mirrors mode doesn't allow remote control of console functions, it only allows viewing on the local monitor(s).  

Option 2, if the system was provided with a, or a dongle was purchased, you can run the PC/Mac in Client mode, with the USB  dongle on the PC/Mac. The dongle activates the PC/Mac as a separate "client" device and allows the screen(s) to be locally manipulated, as well as allowing the PC/Mac to function as a data entry location via the PC/Mac keyboard.  Note that there is an Eos/Ion "Hotkeys" adobe file that tells you how the  PC/Mac keyboard shortcuts function.

Option 3 is a Net3 Remote Video Interface, which is essentially an ETC provided PC running specific remote software.  The RVI can run 2 monitors and has user conquerable buttons on the front to allow the local user to setup assorted functions for the RVI - I.E. screen snapshots, etc... 

The advantage to the RVI is it doesn't tie up a laptop or PC.  Sometimes a local shop that rents Eos/Ion consoles will have an RVI for rent, which is what I did when I had a similar request from an LD.  

Steve B.

I use option number three.  Hookup an "x keys" and you're all set to go!

Pat

What, doesn't anyone use VGA splitters and baluns anymore?  With my Vision I could put a monitor anywhere I could run an RG-59 cable!  It was really fun connected to an Eidophor. ;-)

The DVI outputs, required for touch screen, don't allow splitting.  The OP is using one DVI touch screen and one standard monitor so could split that, but she indicated they wanted both monitors at the design table.  Ion can put both the cue list and the channel display on one monitor, but only in Tab mode, which requires swapping between the two.  

Modern technology improving our lives !.

SB

Minor correction - you don't have to use DVI to have a touchscreen.

The method used to get the picture from the console to the monitor simply doesn't matter* - use whatever is supported by your touchscreen monitor. The touches are provideed over USB.

Some models of USB ELO 5-wire resistive touchscreen only have DVI input, some only VGA, and some have both.

Powered splitters are also available that work with DVI, but they're rather expensive and tend to have HDMI connectors so you need yet more adapters...

*Except on Ion and Element which only have one VGA output, so to connect two monitors you'll need at least one DVI-connected monitor.

  Thanks all!  We've hooked up a PC and are mucking about with options one and two, mirror and client mode.  Now for a production table,...