Eos and Ion versions 1.4.2 and higher, and Element 1.6 and higher support serial control of the system. Network UDP was added in version 1.9.5.
The serial interface allows text to be sent to Eos through I/O Gateways. (The physical serial ports on older Ion consoles and all Eos/Ion RPUs are not currently supported).
As of version 1.9.5 of software, the Eos, Ion, and Element support both transmitting and receiving UDP string messages via an Ethernet network. The format for serial commands into an Eos family console remains the same.
In Browser->Setup->Show Control, there are buttons to enable and disable serial commands, and to specify the serial group(s) that is listened to. All text will be stored until a ‘\r’ or ‘#’ is encountered to determine the end of the command. ‘#’ and ‘\r’ also serve as the Enter key for the command line.
If the text begins with a '$’, the text that follows it, up until the next ‘\r’ or ‘#’, will be sent to the command line of user 0 and processed as if the user had typed it.
Ex: $Chan 1 Thru 10 at Full# sets channels 1 thru 10 to full, manually.
All other text will be sent to the Eos event handler, allowing the following formats:
| Go 1 |
fires playback 1 |
| Cue 1 2 |
run cue 2 from list 1, on the appropriate fader |
| Cue 1 |
fire pending cue from list 2 |
| GoCue0 1 |
GoCue0 playback 1 |
| Release 1 |
release playback 1 |
| Off 1 |
turn playback 1 off |
| Resume 1 |
resume playback 1 |
| Assert 1 |
assert playback 1 |
| Stop 1 |
stop playback 1 |
| Stop Cue 1 2 |
stop cue 2 from list 1 if it is running |
| Resume Cue 1 2 |
resume cue 2 from list 1 if it is stopped |
| SubAssert 1 |
assert submaster 1 |
| SubUnload 1 |
unload sub 1 |
| SubDown 5 |
presses sub 5's bump button down |
| SubUp 5 |
releases sub 5's bump button |
| SubMove 1 50 |
sets Sub 1 to 50 |
| PlaybackMove 1 50 |
sets playback 1 to 50 percent |
| Grandmaster 1 100 |
sets grandmaster 1 to full (there's currently only 1 grandmaster) |
| Macro 1 |
Fires Macro 1 on User 0 |
Abbreviations:
M = can be used instead of Macro
Q = can be used instead of Cue
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