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USER MANUAL
FXcommander

TM

V1.0
2022/06/06

Showven Technologies Co., Ltd.

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Summary of Contents for FXcommander

Page 1: ...USER MANUAL FXcommanderTM V1 0 2022 06 06 Showven Technologies Co Ltd ...

Page 2: ... 8 Example 1 Edit a scene 8 Example 2 Edit Flamer Cue Group 15 Running Cue Group 20 User Lib Device and Effect Adding 21 Example 3 Create a Device 21 Example 4 Create a Device with Independent safety channel 23 Simple DMX 26 Manual Fire 27 Edit Manual Fire File 29 Auto Fire 31 Run Auto Fire 32 Check Slave 32 Noise Info 34 File 34 Settings 36 Battery 38 Tips for use of DMX512 38 Warranty Instructio...

Page 3: ...orks set off Customized for SFX operator to control FX device professionally and safely Set the Safety Standard for FX Device Control Pyro arm switch DMX arm switch Deadman button ensure zero false trigger PANIC Emergency stop at any time Safety channel specially designed for SFX device Dual antenna ensure fast stable and reliable PYRO signal transmission RDMX communication with SHOWVEN machine en...

Page 4: ...5 PIN DMX OUT 1 External Trigger Δ Safety Considerations 1 Necessary precautions should be taken when using FX products to ensure the safety of the operator crew and audience 2 Do not operate FXcommanderTM or any special effects product without proper knowledge and training 3 Install the FXcommanderTM on a firm and level surface 4 Keep FXcommanderTM dry and do NOT use in rain or snow 5 Never use a...

Page 5: ...or Pyro Signal 2 USB USB Port 3 Ant D 2 4G DMX Antenna 4 Ant H 868M High Frequency Antenna for Pyro Signal 5 Pyro Arm 6 DMX Arm 7 Fire 8 Power Power switch 9 Panic Emergency Stop 10 Deadman anchor before firing 11 KEY1 KEY8 CUE Firing and Stop lights on when firing 1 ...

Page 6: ...gger Port 8 DMX 3PIN 3 PIN DMX Output 9 DMX 5PIN 5 PIN DMX Output 3 Main Interface 1 Super DMX DMX device programming capable of programming complex effects 2 Simple DMX Equal to a simple DMX console 128 channels DMX value output 3 Manual Fire Pyro manual programming and firing 4 Auto Fire Cooperate with FXcommanderTM _Editor to realize effects synchronization with music Support both DMX and Pyro ...

Page 7: ...e etc parameters of SHOWVEN device on FXcommanderTM Select Even Select Odd Select Same Clear Select Select or Clear select of device only for the same category device Add Device Switch to device adding interface to add device Delete Device Delete selected device Delete All Delete all device in device list Enable Enable Disable device Default setting is enable all The disabled device can still be s...

Page 8: ...machine panel Tap to switch the key to Lock Mode will show a lock icon in the upper right corner or Tap Mode Press and hold the key can draw and customize logo on it Under Lock Mode Cue group can be triggered by press the corresponding keypad on machine panel Press again will stop Under Tap Mode Cue group can only be triggered by press and hold the corresponding keypad on machine panel all the tim...

Page 9: ...datory when doing library editing Region 4 Set DMX value for the effect press Save to save the setting Region 5 Set device start DMX address and device quantity Start dmx address set the start dmx address for added device Press AUTO can automatically identify the minimum address that is not used in the device list Device count the quantity of device added to Super DMX Press or to set the quantity ...

Page 10: ... Press SUPER DMX Select SCENE0 2 Press Add Device to enter add device interface as shown below 3 Press LIB_SHOWVEN 4 Select SPARKULAR 5 Set the start DMX address for the device 6 Set the device quantity ...

Page 11: ...he Cue in Cue list table 10 Select the preset firing rule 11 Select the devices in Device List 12 Set the parameters at CUE setting For example the setting in above picture is effect of Height 10 firing duration 2s trigger delay is 3s repeat period is 15s repeat counts 2 times CUE group repeat counts is 1 13 Press OK to save the setting 13 ...

Page 12: ...picture Sparkular is the device name 1 Height 10 is effect 1 4 Y means device 1 4 are all in the Cue if there are device which is not selected in the Cue it will show N instead of Y is firing rules from left to right The whole firing Cue as below ...

Page 13: ...nter personalize interface 16 Select Picture or Character here we select Character 17 Enter SPARKULAR in the textbox 18 Select font color 19 Set font size 20 Click OK to save the change and exit the interface 15 16 17 18 19 20 ...

Page 14: ... list 25 Set effect Clear Material at CUE setting 26 Set the personalize icon Clear as show in about picture After those setting please switch the DMX Arm to ON status press Key1 keypad on FXcommanderTM panel 4 units of SPARKULAR will firing from left to right when press Key8 keypad all SPARKULAR clear material 21 22 24 25 23 26 ...

Page 15: ... from above picture the device in device list turn into blue background First line SPARKULAR is the device name Second line 1 3 5 7 is the DMX address of corresponding device Third line 575 is the SPARKULAR heating chamber temperature When DMX ARM at OFF status we can also check the device status here Note when there is signal amplifier connect in series then the data backhaul fails 27 28 29 ...

Page 16: ...e interface as shown below 2 Select LIB_SHOWVEN 3 Select the device CIRCLE FLAMER X F1800 6CH 4 Set the start DMX address can t overlap with the address which have occupied in previous settings Input device quantity and click Add 5 Add device finished Click Back return to the Super DMX interface 2 2 2 2 ...

Page 17: ...same category device at the same time 8 Set up parameters in CUE Setting click OK to save the setting For CIRCLE FLAMER step sequence or wave sequence the effect duration is fixed when set the duration please just input 1s 9 Select preset firing rule 10 Click Custom can set the effect of each individual device 10 ...

Page 18: ...11 Operator can edit effect of each device here 12 Click OK to exit 11 12 ...

Page 19: ...t the vacant Cue position in lower row 14 Select device 15 We can set the same effect for all selected device here For example BIG Wave 1 15 after finish all parameter setting click OK to save 16 Select preset firing rule Trigger delay is meaningless under Synchronous Firing mode 13 14 15 16 ...

Page 20: ...ck Draw can draw whatever operator s like the colors can also change Click Back ground can change the colors of the background Click OK to save the change and exit the interface Select the scene you need click more will show device list in full screen as show below it shows all devices under this scene 17 18 ...

Page 21: ...anel will firing the SPARKULAR Cue group 4 Tap key8 keypad on FXcommanderTM panel will clear material for SPARKULAR in related Cue 5 After switch on DMX Arm different background color for device in device list have different meanings BLUE with safety channel setting and not firing now RED with safety channel setting and firing now NO BACKGROUND COLOR means device with no safety channel 6 Tap key2 ...

Page 22: ... For example here we want to create a flamer with 2 channels 1 Click LIB_USER 2 Click Create it will popup QInputDialog interface to set the number of channels of the device as above picture 3 The device we want to create here occupy 2 channels so here we enter 2 and click OK Please be aware the Number of Channels can t be changed once set here ...

Page 23: ...4 Input Product Name 5 Input Manufacturer 6 Set safety channel and related DMX value 7 Select the effect you want to edit 8 Modify the effect name if needed ...

Page 24: ...t to 0 00 Example 4 Create a device with independent safety channel For device with independent safety channel set Global safety channel at Setting menu instead of set safety channel when create device lib 1 Click LIB_USER 2 Click Create it will popup QInputDialog interface to set the number of channels of the device as above picture 3 The device we want to create here occupy 1 channel so here we ...

Page 25: ...t Product Name 5 Input Manufacturer 6 Select the effect you want to edit 7 Modify the effect name if needed 8 Set DMX value according to DMX control information of the device 9 Click Save to save the setting ...

Page 26: ...10 Exit Super DMX menu enter Setting menu set Global Channel DMX address for example we set 510 here 11 Set safety channel DMX value here we set 128 10 11 ...

Page 27: ...aned up during page turning Region 2 DMX output information Each column together with corresponding keypad on panel is a group there are 128 groups in total means it can output 128 DMX address Slide the white block of each column will output the related DMX value of the corresponding DMX address Press the keypad on FXcommanderTM panel will output DMX value of 255 release the DMX value back to 0 Be...

Page 28: ...ggered Add Add a Cue file to the end of CUE list Insert Insert a cue in current position Delete Delete current selected Cue Delete All Delete all Cue file Region 2 Cue list area Up Down press the corresponding keypad on FXcommanderTM panel will help to switch and select Cue Cue sequence No of Cue Status Status of Cue Ready means the cue is ready active means it is running Down means running finish...

Page 29: ...s firing time interval between two igniter on slave Group Divide Cue list into group Select any of the Cue click to choose this Cue in Group column it will show after selected only adjacent Cue can be divided into same group Background color is the same for a group Cue Cues in different groups will appear in alternative grey and white The Cue in same group will triggered together Click the to ungr...

Page 30: ...Δ Edit Manual Fire File Enter manual fire interface as below 1 Select SCENE0 2 Click Add to add Cue file ...

Page 31: ...Point Start 6 Set Point End 7 Set effect firing running rules 8 Set interval time 9 Set Group Cue 1 2 3 are set in the same group so it will be triggered together 10 The setting CUE can be fired by switch ON Pyro Arm hold Deadman then press Fire ...

Page 32: ...ic when running CUE list parameter information CUE CUE number Device Device type including DMX and PYRO two types Name Device name State Current CUE status there are four status Queued Ready Active Done Addr Device address Mode preset running mode There are five modes Effect The effect of the device Duration Effect duration Prefire Current CUE advanced trigger time Trigger Device trigger intervals...

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Page 34: ... WAV on the screen Press Fire again during firing the auto fire sequence will stop running hold Deadman and press Fire to continue Click Reset will rewind the running time back to start point Δ Check Slave Check Slave is to check the status of igniter connection on slave Region 1 check the igniter status of the set file Manual Fire SCEN1 shows corresponding current file name If enter this interfac...

Page 35: ... 80 shows the state of charge Two small circles in the middle shows the high frequency and low frequency wireless signal respectively Green signal good White no signal Line between each group of black and red dot shows igniter status Green used in the cue connected Red used in the cue not connected Black not used in the cue but connected White not used in the cue not connected Up and Down switch f...

Page 36: ...Δ Noise Info Check interference of pyro wireless signal The shorter the blue bar the weaker the signal interference the better the signal Noise Info Interface Δ File File menu interface File interface ...

Page 37: ...he same prefix are selected for download to FXcommmanderTM only the last file will be downloaded 3 When update Device Lib all Scene file will be cleared 4 Reboot device after update lib file Scene file including the Cue List and Device List of SCENE 0 to SCENE 3 under Super DMX With prefix sys_dev will be recognized as Device List with prefix sys_Cue will be recognized as Cue List The digit number...

Page 38: ...or the touch screen Backlight drag sliding block to adjust the brightness of screen Volume drag sliding block to adjust the volume output in Auto Fire Region 2 Global safe channel and Value Set overall safe channel and DMX value When enter Super DMX or Auto Fire interface and switch on DMX Arm safe channel value will keep output after setting it Clean scene clean scene file Click relevant color bl...

Page 39: ...ify there are four channels optional ensure the same channel as pyro slave Customer ID modify customer ID ensure the same ID as pyro Slave Commands include Sleep and Wake up realize remote sleep and wake up of pyro slave Also can used to test whether slave wireless is normal or not Pyro armed is required for manual fire turn on and off the manual fire function in manual fire menu Region 3 Network ...

Page 40: ...em 2 Use qualified DMX cable can greatly reduce troubles Never use audio cable instead of DMX cable 3 When use 3 PIN DMX cylindrical plug especially in use of 3 pin to 5 pin or 5 pin to 3 pin adaptor cable make sure the wire connection match the requirements of signal phase of device 4 Always plug in a 120Ω DMX terminator into the DMX out of last unit of machine 5 Note the DMX512 system s unit loa...

Page 41: ...nty period Please don t repair machine without factory permission Below situations NOT included in warranty service Damage caused by use other type of consumable which is not from SHOWVEN or SHOWVEN authorized distributor Damage caused by improper transportation usage management and maintenance or damage caused by human factors Disassemble modify or repair products without permission Damage caused...

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Page 43: ...Showven Technologies Co Ltd Tel 86 731 83833068 Web www showven cn E mail info showven cn Add No 1 Tengda Road Liuyang Economic Technical Development Zone 410300 Changsha Hunan P R China ...

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