String interface, Enabling serial, Serial commands – ETC Eos Family Show Control User Manual

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String Interface

The serial interface allows RS-232, UDP serial, and ACN string commands to be sent to the

console.

Enabling Serial

Receiving serial commands can be enabled in Setup, see

. Serial is

disabled by default. If using RS-232 from an I/O gateway, you need to specify the ACN Serial Group

ID.

Serial Commands

All text will be queued up until either a carriage return (hex 0D), a “\r”, or a “#”, is encountered to

show the end of the command. The carriage return (hex 0D), a “\r”, or a “#” will act as the [Enter]

key for the command line. If the text begins with a “$”, the text that follows until the carriage return

(hex 0D), a “\r”, or a “#” will be sent to the command line for user 0 and processed as if that user

had typed it. Commands can be directed to a specific user command line by adding at the

beginning of the string. X= the user number.
For Example:

•

$ Chan 1 Thru 10 At Full /r – sets channels 1 through 10 to full manually.

All other text that doesn’t start with a “$” will be sent to the console’s event handler. Here are a few

examples:

• Go 1 – fire 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 – clear playback 1 (fires cue 0)

• 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

• Stop – stops all

• Resume Cue 1 2 –resume cue 2 from list 1 if it is stopped

• Resume – resumes all

• 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 - set Grandmaster 1 to full (there’s currently only 1 Grandmaster)

• Macro 1 - fires Macro 1