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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Eves" data-source="post: 141029" data-attributes="member: 4463">Snippet AutomationDoes anyone have anything good or bad to say about using Snippets for automation on the X32?I just took over as A1 on a 24-wireless show opening in 11 days, and I&#039;m in the process of writing a Python script to programmatically generate Snippet files from a source spreadsheet.The snippets would contain only channel mutes and DCA assignments, and DCA labels and backlight colors. Like this..._____________________________________________#2.1# &quot;Intro&quot; 0 0 0 0 0&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; /dca/1/config &quot;Man&quot; 0 WH/dca/2/config &quot;Woman&quot; 0 WH/dca/3/config &quot;Ensemble&quot; 0 WH/dca/4/config &quot;&quot; 0 OFF/dca/5/config &quot;&quot; 0 OFF/dca/6/config &quot;&quot; 0 OFF/dca/7/config &quot;&quot; 0 OFF/dca/8/config &quot;Band&quot; 0 WH/ch/01/grp %00000001 %000000/ch/01/mix/on ON/ch/02/grp %00000010 %000000/ch/02/mix/on ON/ch/03/grp %00000100 %000000/ch/03/mix/on ON/ch/04/grp %00000100 %000000/ch/04/mix/on ON[etc.]_____________________________________________It seems that the five numbers after the name string on the first line are bitmaps of the &quot;what to save&quot; toggles on the Snippets screen, and setting them all to zero is valid and clears all the toggles (which is fine as I&#039;m not saving the Snippets from the console itself).I plan to generate a sequence of files named &quot;NNN-Name.snp&quot;, where NNN starts at 000, and simply &quot;import&quot; them all via USB stick starting at slot 0.It&#039;s a shame there&#039;s no way to bulk-delete Snippets, other than resetting &quot;Scene Data&quot;, which would of course wipe the regular scenes and stored set-up for the rest of the console as well (although I guess I could immediately just re-save a new scene), but an Import from slot 0 will always overwrite, so it&#039;s only an issue if I load a set that&#039;s shorter than the previous set and thus get left with some old ones at the end, but I can always deliberately pad the sequence with some safe blank ones.Another concern is order of processing, whether I need to mute a channel BEFORE un-assigning it from a DCA, and conversely not un-mute it until AFTER it was assigned to a DCA, to avoid a possible blip. I have automated mutes and DCAs before using OSC from QLab, and this was necessary due to the few ms delay between it processing OSC commands, but hopefully with a Snippet load this won&#039;t be an issue. If it is, I can always order the pairs of commands in the file appropriately.Anyway, thoughts welcomed, please...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Simon Eves, post: 141029, member: 4463"] Snippet Automation Does anyone have anything good or bad to say about using Snippets for automation on the X32? I just took over as A1 on a 24-wireless show opening in 11 days, and I'm in the process of writing a Python script to programmatically generate Snippet files from a source spreadsheet. The snippets would contain only channel mutes and DCA assignments, and DCA labels and backlight colors. Like this... _____________________________________________ #2.1# "Intro" 0 0 0 0 0 /dca/1/config "Man" 0 WH /dca/2/config "Woman" 0 WH /dca/3/config "Ensemble" 0 WH /dca/4/config "" 0 OFF /dca/5/config "" 0 OFF /dca/6/config "" 0 OFF /dca/7/config "" 0 OFF /dca/8/config "Band" 0 WH /ch/01/grp %00000001 %000000 /ch/01/mix/on ON /ch/02/grp %00000010 %000000 /ch/02/mix/on ON /ch/03/grp %00000100 %000000 /ch/03/mix/on ON /ch/04/grp %00000100 %000000 /ch/04/mix/on ON [etc.] _____________________________________________ It seems that the five numbers after the name string on the first line are bitmaps of the "what to save" toggles on the Snippets screen, and setting them all to zero is valid and clears all the toggles (which is fine as I'm not saving the Snippets from the console itself). I plan to generate a sequence of files named "NNN-Name.snp", where NNN starts at 000, and simply "import" them all via USB stick starting at slot 0. It's a shame there's no way to bulk-delete Snippets, other than resetting "Scene Data", which would of course wipe the regular scenes and stored set-up for the rest of the console as well (although I guess I could immediately just re-save a new scene), but an Import from slot 0 will always overwrite, so it's only an issue if I load a set that's shorter than the previous set and thus get left with some old ones at the end, but I can always deliberately pad the sequence with some safe blank ones. Another concern is order of processing, whether I need to mute a channel BEFORE un-assigning it from a DCA, and conversely not un-mute it until AFTER it was assigned to a DCA, to avoid a possible blip. I have automated mutes and DCAs before using OSC from QLab, and this was necessary due to the few ms delay between it processing OSC commands, but hopefully with a Snippet load this won't be an issue. If it is, I can always order the pairs of commands in the file appropriately. Anyway, thoughts welcomed, please... [/QUOTE]

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