ZO-Mix Show mode: What Locks and What Stays Open During a Show

What it is

Show mode protects the show from a major change made by mistake. It locks Control connections only, this Mac and Full devices included. A musician's connection works as usual, with all its options.

Show mode on: an amber key in the top bar and editing keys greyed out — An amber key in the top bar, and editing keys greyed out.

Starting and ending

Start: tap Show mode in the top bar.
End: hold the amber key for 2 seconds.
Only the Mac or a Full device can start or end it.
It stays on through a restart of the app.

What locks

Snapshots: insert, update, rename, renumber, move, delete, colours and setlists.
Gain and routing: 48V, phase, pad, Route, Save gains and Recall gains.
Names and presets: renaming, recalling console presets, and saving or deleting GEQ presets.
Groups and saved mixes: groups, DCA order, and deleting saved mixes.
Settings: the Setup page and making a new PIN.

What stays open

Faders, mute and solo.
AUX sends.
EQ and dynamics.
Gain and trim, after a 2 second hold on the strip. They lock again 25 seconds after the last change.
Firing snapshots and macros.
Pan.
Chat and Help calls from musicians.
Firing snapshots, Fire next, Fire prev, Undo recall and macros.
Managing musicians and users: assigning a mix, the mixes musicians may edit, general permissions, the musicians' lock, approving, disconnecting and removing.
Everything musicians do on their side.

Devices with limited permissions

Each device that is not Full has separate permissions, normal and in Show mode, by area and range of channels. For example, a stage tech: only faders and mutes on channels 1–12.

Users screen: connected devices and permissions by area — The System tab, under Users.

Connecting devices

A new Control device waits for approval on the Mac or a Full device, once: Full, Stage tech or View only.
An invite QR lets one device in at once, within 5 minutes.
A dropped network or a reload asks nothing again.
Musicians join as usual, with a QR code and the PIN.

A new device's request under the top bar — A request appears under the top bar, on any screen.

Before a show

Save the file on the console, so the gains are kept.
Approve the devices that need Control.
Check signal on the meters, with mutes closed.
Tap Show mode.

Limits

Gain trims stay open, so Recall gains is locked at its key on screen, not where gains are written.
Quit in the Mac's menu is not blocked.
The network is plain HTTP, so keep the Wi-Fi password to those who need it.
A device is known by its browser, so another browser or cleared data looks like a new device and waits for approval.