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ETC Eos

The wizard sets this up

Launch New Show has an ETC Eos setup page: pick the console, enter the IP and ports, then test both directions on the same page. Fire a cue on the desk and Cue received from the desk ticks. Type a cue number, click Send GO, and click Confirm if the desk took it. Fire-back targets the cue list the show was captured on. The steps below are the same settings by hand.

Eos sends cues to ShowRevue​

First, in the ECU (not Eos itself):

  • Go to Settings → Network → Interface Protocols.
  • Enable UDP Strings & OSC on the network interface Eos uses.

Eos will not send OSC at all until this is on, whatever the Show Control settings say.

Then on the Eos console:

  • Go to Setup → System → Show Control → OSC.
  • Enable OSC TX.
  • Set OSC UDP TX IP Address to the Mac running ShowRevue.
  • Set OSC UDP TX Port to the Cue Port shown in Preferences → Lighting Consoles. It's 8000 out of the box, but ShowRevue keeps whatever was last saved.
  • Fire a cue and confirm Preferences → Lighting Consoles shows Cue input online.
  • Confirm ETC Eos appears in the Lighting Consoles section there and updates when cues arrive.
  • Confirm the cue also appears in the Cues panel.

ShowRevue sends cues back to Eos​

Cue input needs Base or above. Cue fire-back needs Professional or above.

In ShowRevue:

  • Open Preferences → Lighting Consoles and scroll to Control (fire GO back to console).
  • Enable console output.
  • Set Console to ETC Eos.
  • Set Host to the Eos console IP.
  • Set Port to the Eos OSC input port, usually 8000.
  • Set the cue list to the target list, usually 1 (or leave Use detected on).

ShowRevue sends this command:

/eos/cue/{list}/{cue}/fire

Nothing is sent until you arm the outputs in playback (OUTPUTS OFF becomes ARMED). During a Show recording, Block console output during Show recordings (on by default) stops every cue command reaching the desk. See Show Safety.

Several cue lists at once​

Shows often run more than one Eos cue list: the book, followspots, video-from-LX. ShowRevue records every list the desk sends unless you tell it not to. There is nothing to configure to capture a list. To leave one out (a haze or backstage list, say), type its number in Project Settings → Consoles → Ignore these sequences / cue lists, for example 1, 5-61, 7. See Project Settings.

What you choose is which list is the show:

  • Project Settings → Consoles lists every cue list the desk has sent, with its last cue and how long ago it fired. Tick the list that runs the show. It drives running-time and interval timing, Director NOW/NEXT follow, cue navigation, and the Main Lighting Cue overlay widget (plus Stage Display and Live Notes). Ticking a list doesn't filter what's recorded.
  • Every other list stays a reference lane in playback. The timeline stacks a lane per list and the cue list gains a track filter, and can be put on the layout with as many Secondary Lighting Cue widgets as you need.

The list keeps every cue list the show has ever been heard running, so it's populated before you record a frame.

List names​

Eos doesn't send the list's name with a cue, so ShowRevue asks the console for it once. The first time it ever sees that list, never again. The names then read through the whole app ("List 5. FOLLOWSPOTS") instead of bare numbers: in the picker, on the layout, in the playback lanes and the cue list.

That query is read-only and honours the show-output gate, so it stays silent when outputs are off or locked for a show. If the console doesn't answer, the list number carries the display on its own.

Fade times​

Eos also reports each cue's fade duration over OSC, and ShowRevue captures it with the cue. In playback you'll see that fade two ways:

  • In the Cues panel, the active Eos cue shows a progress bar that fills across the fade, with the elapsed / total time.
  • On the timeline scrubber, an Eos cue's pill stretches to the width of its fade. A long crossfade reads as a wide pill, a snap stays compact. (Other consoles don't report a fade time, so their cues stay as point markers.)