Options For Controlling Colorblaze Trx Fixtures; Using The Intensity Channel; Standalone Mode - Philips ColorBlaze TRX Manual

Using the Intensity Channel

Enabling the intensity channel lets you adjust the brightness of all LED channels
proportionally using a fader on a DMX console. For example, you can set a desired
color, then adjust the brightness with the assigned fader while maintaining the color
value.
When you enable the intensity channel, each ColorBlaze TRX node consumes an
additional DMX address in 8-bit mode and two additional DMX addresses in 16-bit
mode (as shown in the table on page 12). Make sure that your addressing scheme
accounts for the additional DMX addresses that the intensity channel requires.
You can use the Single-Channel Fixture icon in ColorPlay 3 (version 1.10 and higher)
to represent and control the intensity channel in a ColorPlay 3 light show. Refer to
the ColorPlay 3 User Guide for more information.
Options for Controlling ColorBlaze TRX
Fixtures
In addition to standard control schemes using DMX- or Ethernet-based lighting
consoles and controllers, ColorBlaze TRX offers a number of control options
designed to support architectural, theatrical, and portable lighting applications.

Standalone Mode

By default, the input source of a ColorBlaze TRX fixture is DMX / Ethernet. When in
DMX / Ethernet mode, ColorBlaze TRX listens for and responds to DMX or Ethernet
data transmitted to the lighting network by a console or controller.
You can change the input source of ColorBlaze TRX fixture to Standalone. In
Standalone mode, a ColorBlaze TRX fixture ignores DMX and Ethernet data input
and displays either a pre-set show or a ColorPlay 3 show stored on the fixture's SD
card. ColorBlaze TRX offers three pre-set shows — Fixed Color, Color Wash, and
Chasing Rainbow — which you can configure using the fixture's on-board menus.
You can download light shows and triggers onto a fixture's installed SD card from
ColorPlay 3, light show authoring and configuration software from Philips Color
Kinetics. ColorPlay 3 is bundled with the iPlayer 3 DMX controller, and is also
available as a free download from the Philips Color Kinetics website.
To download ColorPlay 3 light shows and triggers to the ColorBlaze TRX SD card,
you connect a computer running ColorPlay 3 to an Ethernet switch in the lighting
network, or directly to the Ethernet input on a ColorBlaze TRX fixture, using a
standard CAT-5e or better cable. An iPlayer 3 controller is not required.
ColorPlay 3
software
Ethernet
switch
You can download up to 255 triggers to the ColorBlaze TRX SD card. You can
download as many ColorPlay 3 light shows as the SD card can contain, but only the
255 most recently downloaded shows appear on the ColorBlaze TRX menu.
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For instructions on enabling and
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disabling the intensity channel, refer to
"Enabling and Disabling the Intensity
Channel" on page 31.
You can download the latest version of
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ColorPlay 3 from www.colorkinetics.com/
support/iplayer3/
For instructions on setting fixture input
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source, configuring pre-set shows, and
playing triggers and shows from the fixture's
SD card, refer to "Using the ColorBlaze TRX
Onboard Menus," beginning on page 23.