Original LXSeries Forum

I am trying to import a show that has been done on a ETC CONGO console. I took away all the useless information from the file like parameter definitions etc so only the cuelist is left but still: LXconsole cannot read any of it. I can see that the channel format looks different:
Congo:
CHAN 73/H39 75/HA4 78/HFD 79/H9C 81/HFD 87/HFF

Presto ( readable by LX):
CHAN 73/22 75/54 78/99 79/61 81/99 87/100

I assume that congo writes hexadecimal , ??.
There is a checkbox in the import ascii window but I cannot choose this option.
WHat can be done here?
(the presto version is old, so I really want to use the congo).

Anyway, I consider to read the dmx output instead, borrowing a console somewhere. But, I quite don`t understand what LX reads if I do so. Will it save the dmx info as channel levels if the patch is 1:1?
would be good to know before I go and try it out.

Cheers,
Uli

LXConsole reads levels in either percent or hexadecimal format. The hexadecimal levels option is only for writing ASCII files.

In a quick test, LXConsole read the ASCII with hexadecimal levels just fine:

Cue 1
Up 5
Down 5
CHAN 73/H39 75/HA4 78/HFD 79/H9C 81/HFD 87/HFF

You can even copy the above text and use the Edit->Paste ASCII command to see that it imports properly.

There may be some other issue with your ASCII text. Look in the messages window after trying to import to see if any errors are reported.

Importing DMX reads raw dimmer levels and converts them using the patch.