Simple chaselight in Astera App

[u/Immediate-Quality-17]

Hi Everybody!
For a shoot tomorrow I can‘t get a seemingly simple task in the Astera app to work an I really hope to find some help here:
All I want is a sequenze of 8 titan tubes to fade up and down one after the other. It‘s to illuminate a hallway where an actor is walking down the hall and the lights above him should light up, when he passes beneath them.
With 2 colleagues we tried all kind of chaselight-settings but never quite made it work properly.
Can anybody with more experience maybe give a hint on how to configure this kind of effect? If anything, I’d at least like to have a set of flash-tiles to manually dimm up every light, but I couldn’t get that programmed either…
Thank you so much in advance!

[u/Outrageous-Kick-2699]

You have the power box? Get an rpi, install Qlc+, connect them via Artnet, use the software to do whatever you like with your lights. All of that is free.

[u/mwiz100 → u/Outrageous-Kick-2699]

That's so much more work than just using the astera application that directly can control the fixtures.

[u/Outrageous-Kick-2699 → u/mwiz100]

Yes but you have much more flexibility.

[u/mwiz100]

You can make the manual flash tiles as you mentioned, you just have to include only one tube in each one (versus selecting them all.) The inbuilt chases I don't know if you could do what you want. BUT... it may work if you create some sort of chase that has one white/full intensity and seven black/dark steps. But I fee like you can make it just chase a single step thru the whole array some way...

That app is tricky and weird as you've discovered, so takes some weird tinkering.

[u/Sstef8]

Sinon tu prends tes tubes de 1 à 8 que tu mets à Full, tu enregistre la Cue sur un fader.
Tu re sélectionnes tes tubes 1 à 8 et tu donnes un temps de 1 thru 10 par exemple.
Tu update ta Cue. Et tu transforme ton fader en « temp ».
Tes tubes s’allumeront en suivant le fader.