Serial (Rs-232); Enabling Serial; Serial Commands - ETC ION Operation Manual

Serial (RS-232)

The serial interface allows RS-232 commands to be sent to Ion through Ion's serial port.
E n a b l i n g S e r i a l
Receiving serial commands can be enabled in Setup, see
by default. You will also need to tell the console which serial group(s) that it will be listening to.
S e r i a l C o m m a n d s
All text will be stored until a carriage return, a "\r" or "#", is encountered to show the end of the
command. The carriage return will act as the [Enter] key for the command line. If the text begins
with a "$", the text that follows until the carriage return will be sent to the command line for user 0
and processed as if that user had typed it. For example:
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All other text that doesn't start with a "$" will be sent to the Ion event handler. Here are a few
examples:
• Go 1 – fires 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
N o t e :
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$ Chan 1 Thru 10 At Full /r – sets channels 1 through 10 to full manually.
Text requires a carriage return to terminate the command line.
Show Control, page 98. Serial is enabled
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