• dot2 User Manual
    • New in the Manual
    • Introduction
      • Intended Use
      • System Requirements dot2 onPC
      • Installation of dot2 onPC
    • What are...
      • System Colors
        • Command History
        • Executor
        • Values
        • Background
      • Programmer
      • Groups
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      • Tracking
      • Cues
      • Executors
      • Chasers
      • Effects
      • Preview and Blind
      • Network
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      • DMX Tester
    • How to...
      • Turn the console on and off
      • Update the console
      • Add, patch, change, and delete fixtures
      • Save and load your show
      • Use the command line
      • Use Encoders in the onPC
      • Work with groups
      • Work with presets
      • Work with cues
      • Work with chasers
      • Work with effects
      • Connect nodes, wings, 3D and onPC
      • Use external input triggers
      • Use MIDI and MIDI Show Control (MSC)
      • Use the external screen
      • Use web remote
      • Reset the console
    • Keys
      • Align
      • At
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      • Cue
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      • DMX
      • [dot]
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      • Edit
      • Effect
      • [Encoder]
      • Esc
      • Exec (Executor)
      • [Exec Flash]
      • [Exec Go]
      • Fix
      • Fixture
      • Flash
      • Full
      • Go-
      • Go- (Large)
      • Go+
      • Go+ (Large)
      • [GoFastBack] <<<
      • [GoFastForward] >>>
      • Goto
      • Group
      • Help
      • Highlt (Highlight)
      • Label
      • If
      • MA
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      • Move
      • Next
      • [Numeric keys]
      • Off
      • On
      • Oops
      • Page
      • Page+
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      • Pause
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      • Please
      • [Plus] +
      • Preset
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      • Prvw (Preview)
      • Select
      • Set
      • Setup
      • Speed
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      • Thru
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      • Control Elements
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        • Title Bar
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      • Icons
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      • Backup
      • Beam Preset Type
      • Calculator
      • Calibrate Screens
      • Change Functions of Executor
      • Choose Clone Method
      • Choose Copy Method
      • Choose Delete Method
      • Choose Store Method
      • Choose Update Method
      • Clock
      • Color Preset Type
      • Command Line
      • Configure Slot
      • Control Preset Type
      • Cues
      • Dimmer Preset Type
      • DMX
      • Edit Cue Number(s)
      • Effects
      • Empty Executor
      • Enter Name for
      • Executor Bar
      • Executor Pool
      • Fixtures
      • Fixture Schedule Overview
      • Focus Preset Type
      • Gobo Preset Type
      • Global Settings
      • Groups
      • Help
      • Import Fixture Type
      • Key Backlight
      • Leaving Patch & Fixture Schedule...
      • Load Show
      • Macros Pool
      • Magic Speeds
      • MIDI Configuration
      • MIDI Monitor
      • MIDI Show Control
      • Network Interface
      • Network Protocols Configuration
      • Network Setup
      • New Show
      • Off...
      • Oops
      • Page Pool
      • Patch and Fixture Schedule
      • Position Preset Type
      • Presets Pools
      • Remote Inputs Configuration
      • Save Show As...
      • Select DMX Address...
      • Select DMX Ports
      • Select Fixtures ID(s)
      • Select Fixture Type...
      • Select Function for Remote Inputs Configuration
      • Select Function of Executor
      • Select Language...
      • Select Session Number
      • Select Station...
      • Select Trig
      • Select Type
      • Select View
      • Select View for External Screen
      • Select Wing...
      • Session Collision
      • Settings of Executor
      • Setup
      • Shapers Preset Type
      • Software Update via USB
      • Sound Input Configuration
      • Status and Messages
      • System Clock
      • System Information
      • Time defaults
      • Timecode Configuration
      • Tools
      • Video Preset Type
      • Virtual Playbacks
      • Window Settings
      • Wings
        • Wings & Nodes Diagnosis
    • Commands
      • >>> [GoFastForward]
      • <<< [GoFastBack]
      • - [Minus]
      • + [Plus]
      • Assign
      • At
      • Black
      • Blind
      • Call
      • Clone
      • Copy
      • Cue
      • Default
      • Delay
      • Delete
      • Dmx
      • DmxUniverse
      • Edit
      • Effect
      • Executor
      • Fade
      • Fix
      • Fixture
      • Flash
      • Full
      • FullHighlight
      • Go
      • GoBack
      • Goto
      • Group
      • Help
      • If
      • IfOutput
      • Invert
      • Label
      • Learn
      • Macro
      • MidiNote
      • Move
      • Off
      • On
      • OutDelay
      • OutFade
      • Page
      • Park
      • Pause
      • Preset
      • PresetType
      • Preview
      • Rate
      • Record
      • Release
      • Remove
      • Replace
      • Select
      • Selection
      • SetIP
      • SnapPercent
      • Solo
      • Stomp
      • Store
      • StoreLook
      • SyncEffects
      • Temp
      • Thru
      • Toggle
      • Top
      • Unpark
      • Update
      • View [Eye]
      • Zero
    • Hints for Operating
    • Error Handling
      • CrashLogCopy
      • CrashLogDelete
      • CrashLogList
      • Error Messages
    • Glossary
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Version 1.9

How to use the command line

The dot2 is technically a command line console. Everything that happens is also a command that's executed in the command line.

To learn more about the actual commands you can write, please have a look at the commands section in this manual (also link below).

This is what the command line looks like:

It's almost always visible on the right screen. If you tap this then you open the Command Line view. It could look like this:

Here you can use the onscreen keyboard to type in the commands and you can see the command history and the response from the console. You can also use an external keyboard in the command line.

When the command line have the focus, then you can use the Up and Down keys to select previously used commands - then you can execute the command by pressing the Please key. You can also use the up and down arrows on an  external keyboard.

The command history is also a view you can have visible on one of the internal screens or on the external screen. 

 

Related links

Commands section

Command Line view

 


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