Home; Select Last - ETC ION Operation Manual

Home

Ion is equipped with a [Home] hardkey. This hardkey allows you to home a specific parameter.
Additionally, you may home all of a channel's non-intensity parameters or home only a specific
category (I, F, C, B).
Homing a channel, category, parameter, or submasters will return it to the default value.
• [1] [Home] [Enter] - homes all parameters for channel 1, except intensity.
• [1] [Color] [Home] [Enter] - homes all color parameters for channel 1.
• [Group] [1] [Color] [Focus] [Home] [Enter] - homes the color and focus parameters of all
channels in group 1. You can use the category keys in the CIA or the encoder paging keys.
• [Sub] [1] [Home] [Enter] - homes submaster 1.
• [Sub] [1] [Thru] [Home] [Enter] - homes all submasters.
You can select a preset to provide home values for non-intensity parameters (instead of fixture
library default values) when home commands are used. Store a preset with modified home values
for only the channel parameters you would like at a different value than default. And then assign
that preset to Home in Setup (see
value. Any channels that are not included in the preset assigned to Home in Setup will use their
library defaults.

Select Last

The [Select Last] key allows you to reselect the previous channel selection. This includes multiple
channel selections, groups, and so on. Using [Select Last] [Select Last] you can recall the last
completed command line. However [Select Last] [Select Last] will not terminate the command
line, [Enter] is required.
When pressed and held, the softkeys on Ion change to display the following additional options:
• {Select Active} - selects all active channels.
• {Select Manual} - selects all channels with manual data.
• {Select All} - selects all channels.
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Basic Manual Control
Show Settings, page 95). Intensity will disregard the preset
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