User Guide

Avolites Pearl 2000 Operators Manual - page 174
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There are three key types of data line associated with macros, these are:
MACRO “macro name” channel list
“data” data list
“delay” 1 time
MEND
Where “macro name” This can be up to 11 characters and can include
spaces. It must begin and end with double quotes.
When the channel list is the DMX channels for the instrument, to which data
will be passed from the data list.
“data” that the following data will be passed to the instrument. Note that
this MUST be in lower case and enclosed in double quotes.
data list is the data to be passed to the instrument. It must be in
hexadecimal notation..
“delay” This optional statement defines that a delay time before running
the next step. When used it must be followed by a 1. This field is for future
use.
Time is the delay time in units of 0.1 seconds and is in hexadecimal.
3 seconds would be 2E
Macros must terminate with the statement MEND
A typical example macro is:-
MACRO “HOME” 1 18 20 ; send instrument to home position
“data” 0 FF 0
“delay” 1 20
“data” 0 0 FF
“delay” 1 20 ; wait about 2.5 seconds
“data” 0 0 40
“delay” 1 40 ; wait about 5 seconds
“data” 0 0 0
MEND
26.12 Example Personality File for the High End Cyberlight
Items in BOLD are required, everything else is comments which can be
freely changed deleted etc. comments always precede a ;.
; "High End Cyberlight mode 1", 20 DMX channels, filename :hecyber1.per
;
; Date By Description
; 26-05-94 Salzedo created
; 10-08-94 Anwar revised dmx slots
; 07-09-94 J.B.Toby revised for Pearl use/relocation of channels
; 11-11-94 J.B.Toby revised to match PerManML
; 22-05-96 S. Anwar Pan/Tilt channel identification & Resolution inserted
; 04-03-96 S. Anwar Revised for Sapphire 96
;----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; The device name, upto 11 characters, no spaces are allowed