You got here from: System Overview

From the System Overview page, click on the name of any controller to get to this view.

This page has four cards: Overview, Controller Log, Controller Controls, and Showfile Status.

Overview

This provides general data about the controller. A few to note:

• MAC Address: this is the MAC of the controller, and is used throughout to identify the controller.
• Name: this is a user-settable name to allow you to identify the controller.
• Last data is how long ago we got a ping from the controller (typically ~60 seconds, although the pings are sent at a low priority, so this may go up to 3 minutes without indicating much trouble)
• Last Reboot is relative to the last ping, which can lead to odd displays of text like a controller being offline for 3 days and the last reboot being 5 minutes ago.
• Last data is the absolute time of the last ping (all times currently in UTC)
• System links back to the System Overview page for this controller's system
• Last reboot, and First data are the same.
• Factory Date is the factory QA date. At this moment, Factory Date and First Date are the same, as we move into larger scale manufacturing, these dates will shift.

Controller Log

This displays the most recent log entries from this controller.

Controller Controls

This is a card of control options for this controller.

None of these buttons take immediate action - each links to additional pages for specific functions:

Fixture Control

Cue Control

Snapshots

sACN Bridge

Showfile Update

Advanced Features

Showfile Status

If you have uploaded a showfile, this will show its upload status.

If Patch or Stack show anything other than "Stack update completed!" at 100%, the file was not uploaded correctly, or has not finished uploading. An indication of "Timeout" usually means a controller is not actually online when you tried to push the showfile.

<aside> 🐡 While we continue to finish development on the programming software, the way you patch fixtures and write cues is in the JSON showfile format. (The programming software simply generates these files and sends them through the cloud system).

Showfile Format

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