Channel overview

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Channel overview

Description

With the DMX channel overview you can view the values of each DMX channel and control edit them directly. This function is designed more for test purposes than for the permanent control of your light show. E.g you could use it to check the result of executing of procedures in DDFs.

The channel overview can be applied for testing of new devices, even there is still no DDF for it available. You have to consider the starting address. Select the channel and modify the DMX value with the left slider.

All channels are represented in a table. The individual cells show:

• 1. Line left: channel number
• 1. Line mid: a beam, his height reflects the current DMX value,
• 1. Line right: the current DMX value. You can alter this by double click.
• 2. Line: channel description from the DDF
• 3. Line: name of the Device, to which the cannel belongs.

In the 4. line a colored beam shows, through which mixer chanel the respective DMX channel was recently changed. This can serve as clue, if a channel in the HTP mode "hangs".

Operating

The currently chosen channel is marked by a red framework. Click into one of the cells in order to select another channel. The value of the chosen channel can be changed by the slider at the left window edge. After double click on a channel (field) you can insert the DMX value by keyboard.

The right slider serves the selection of the visible channels merely. The left slider shows the DMX value for the selected channel and you can modifi this.

Double-click with one on a channel (field in the channel overview) can be used to enter one DMX value directly by keyboard.

By the switch button you can choose between DMX-out and DMX-in if your DMX transmitter supports DMX-In.

In the lower field, it is shown from which Mixer channel a DMX channel was recently altered, (one update per second). Typically tools or plugins possess their own Mixer channel. The „Unknown Sources(0)“ represent the „public“ Mixer channel, which is created during start of DMXControl. If a tool or plugin does not create its own channel it uses the public one. For instance, at Program configuration you can select whether the Graphical view uses an own or public Mixer channel.

Examples for values for „Unknown Sources“ are DMX values from DDF initialising part or from the Command that can be executed during start of DMXControl (see Program configuration). Please adjust these values if you have any side Effects with your devices.

The colors of mixer channels help to assign the fiels in upper part to the channels displayed in lower part. Currently only 16 colors are supported (multiple use is possible).