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© 2020 MA Lighting Technology GmbH - Dachdeckerstr. 16 - 97297 Waldbüttelbrunn - Germany Phone +49 5251 688865-27 - [email protected] - www.malighting.com How to connect wings, nodes, 3D and onPC There are several things you can connect together. Everything is connected on an Ethernet network infrastructure. This means that you need to connects all you devices using Ethernet cables (Cat.5e quality or better) to a switch that minimum runs at 100MB speed and the switch needs to be able to handle Multicast. All devices in the network use IPv6 to talk to each other - so the switch needs to be able to handle this as well. If you don't know what IPv6 is and you have trouble with the connections, please read the What is IPv6 help page. If you have any doubt about what switch to use, please contact your local distributor. They will help you select an appropriate switch. dot2 Wings You can connect wings to your dot2 console or to dot2 onPC. The wings are assigned to a specific device. If this device is lost on the network then the wing loose it's functionality and waits to be assigned to a different device. There are two types of wings: the dot2 Fader wing (F-wing) and the dot2 Button wing (B-wing). Each gives you more physical executors and an extra screen. Since the wings are connected directly to a specific device you'll need to open the setup menu on the device you want to connect a wing. In the Setup menu you'll find a button called dot2 Wings , tap this. This gives you the Wings view. Here you can tap one of the free slots (yellow bar on the left side) of the same type as your wing. There are only five slots for each device. Depending on your devices you might only have a few free slots. Slots that are occupied by the console have a red bar on the left side - they are called "fixed, internally". Slots that are currently occupied by an external wing will have a green bar in the left side. When you tap a free slot you'll see the available wings in your network. If you don't see any wings here, then you need to check you network and the connections - also make sure everything is powered on. When you see a wing on the left side of the screen, then you can tap it. The wing you have selected will now flash all the keys. This is so you can identify the select wing in a multi wings setup. When the correct wing is flashing, then you can tap the Assign Selected button. Now you have assigned and connected a wing and you can exit the menu. dot2 consoles, dot2 onPC and dot2 3D visualizer Everything, except wings, are connected to a session. Wings are connected to a specific device. There can be 4 separate sessions running in your network. The session system allows for a greater flexibility with regards of backup and redundancy. Press Setup and then the Sessions button. This gives you the Network Setup view. This view is separated into two parts the top part shows you if your console or onPC is currently in a network session or not. 1 of 3 dot2 User Manual – How to... Version 1.1 – 2020-11-07 English

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© 2020 MA Lighting Technology GmbH - Dachdeckerstr. 16 - 97297 Waldbüttelbrunn - Germany Phone +49 5251 688865-27 - [email protected] - www.malighting.com On key On can be used to turn on inactive executors or to activate values in your programmer. Turn On an Executor If you need to turn on an executor you can press On then any key associated to the executor. You can also be specific using the keys: On Exec 1 Please On can also be assigned to an executor key using the Assign command ( + Label ) or the Change Function of Executors Buttons window. Turn On fixtures or values You can activate values or fixture in your programmer by pressing On followed by what you want to activate. If you need to activate an entire fixture you can press On followed by the fixture in a fixture view or using the command On Fixture 1 Please Will activate all parameters for fixture one in the programmer. If you need to activate an entire Preset Type in your programmer you can press On followed by pressing the preset type in the preset type bar on screen 1 or use keys: On + 1 Please Will activate all dimmer values (preset type 1) for the selected fixtures. Pressing the key and a number at the same time will give you fast access to the corresponding Preset Type. Advanced functionality When you press and hold the and then the On key, you'll get the Call command. This can be used to call presets. + On (gives you the Call command) Preset 4 . 1 Please This will call the values stored in preset 1 in preset type 4 into your programmer without selecting the fixtures first. It can also be used to activate values stored in (and up to) a cue. If you need to store the look of cue 3, you can use the Call function to activate these values using the following keys: + On (gives you the Call command) Cue 3 Please 1 of 2 dot2 User Manual – Keys Version 1.5 – 2020-03-23 English