Command Window Options; Command Structure; Command History - Strand Lighting NEO User Manual

NEO Lighting Control Console
The command window can be revealed by selecting the NEO Icon to the left of the Command Line window. Here the
command history part of the window is revealed.
The command window also allows you to control your lighting system using a basic text interface. Traditional
lighting desks have provided a Command Line interface as a means to access large numbers of channels where
individual buttons or faders were impractical. It may seem antiquated to include a Command Line interface in NEO
because it has the flexible channel window providing access to thousands of channels from one simple screen, but
this is far from true.
Once familiar with the command structure the Command Line interface can be a very quick and powerful way of
setting up scenes during complex programming sequences.
NEO NOTES & TIPS: It is also useful to learn the command structure because you can enter the channel selection
syntax anywhere you wish to enter a large number of channels. e.g. the Cue List Editor.
You can also enter command directly from the channel display without having to shift focus back to the command
window. As soon as a key is pressed in the channel display it will appear in the command edit box.

Command Window Options

Right clicking on the command window history panel will popup the options menu as shown below;
Command Window Options
Clear command history window - Select this option to remove all of the text from the command history.
Copy command history to the windows clipboard - This is a useful option to help with support when using the
Command Line interface. You may be asked email a copy of the commands you are using and this menu item will
simply this task. Once copied to the clipboard you can past it directly into an email.
Set background color - Use this option change the background color of the command history window. The standard
NEO color chooser will allow you to select any color from palette. Be aware that it is possible to choose a color that
will make the text unreadable.

Command Structure

The following commands can be entered into the edit box provided along the bottom left of the window. To execute
any command simply press enter or click on the "Execute" button to the right.
Some commands will execute automatically without needing to press the enter key. This is the case where the last
item typed is identified as the last valid character in the line. For example the command "@@" will set the selected
channels to full. There is nothing that can be entered after the second @ so the types syntax is considered complete
and will execute without needing to press the enter key.
Once a command is entered, it will automatically appear in the text box above. If the command was successful, the
command will be preceded by "Success" in green text. If the command is followed by the word "Failed" in red text
then nothing will happen as the software did not recognize the command you entered or a mistake was made in the
command syntax.

Command History

NEO displays the last 100 commands entered in the text box just above the command entry edit.
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