B-Station2 Multi Patch

[Joost.de.Bot]

Is it possible to multi-patch?

I have a set of 40 lights that are normally controlled via Art-Net input and DMX output via the Button2. But if the Art-Net connection drops out, I would like to set them to a fixed color.

I know the limit is 32 fixures, but I would like to control them as a single fixure.
Is that possible?

Joost

[Julien Levaufre]

if you have 40 fixtures with individual DMX addresses, as you said you will not be able to patch them in the B-station, as, as you said, it is limited to 32 fixtures.
But, I can see a solution if your fixtures are not too complex.
You can use the DMX task, and use the RGB-BLOCK, it will set all the fixtures starting from a specific DMX address to a specific color. You will probably have to add a task to set the intensity to the right level too.
But it should fit your expectation,
Then just make a DMX/clear when the ARt-net comes back to clear all the DMX values..

I hope this will help you,

[Joost.de.Bot]

That works indeed.

I created a user list that sets the "complex" values ​​to a fixed value, and the intensity and RGB come via Block I and Block RGBW.

The strange thing is that the configuration called Block RGBW only passes through RGB; that is why I added it to a separate dimmer to be able to control the white LEDs via an extra Block I function.

But it works, thank you.

[Julien Levaufre]

I am not sure I understand what you are explaining about the BlockRGBW task, but I am happy to read that it is working as you needed.

[Julien Levaufre]

I received your email, I now i understand the problem. It a bug with the transfer of color parameter from the fixture that doesn't take into account the white channel.
I added this bug to our to do list, but I do not have any ETA for the fix.
Hopefully, I am sure there is a alternate situation to achieve the same result.