Patent ID: 8090457

Claim:
A method for operating a lighting system comprising: at least one central control unit and a plurality of lighting devices, including provision made in the lighting devices for a positioning sensor system operable to determine the locations of the lighting devices and wherein location data for describing the locations is transmitted to the central control device from each lighting device comprising a data interface, and wherein a stage set database, which describes a stage set model and in which the locations of the various lighting devices in a stage set are stored, is stored in the central control device, comprising the following method; a) determining the current locations of the lighting devices by the positioning sensor system in the lighting devices; b) transferring the current location data from the lighting devices to the central control device; and c) storing the current location data in the stage set database; including that a lighting control console is used as a central control device, that a lighting program for controlling the lighting devices during a stage show on different stages is stored in the lighting control console, wherein the lighting program includes at least one reference point on the stage, to which the adjusting commands of the lighting program relate and wherein the locations of the various lighting devices relative to the reference point are determined and are stored in the stage set database, further including that the lighting program includes a plurality of predefined command sequences (presets) for the lighting devices, wherein the lighting commands of the command sequences are based on the stage set database and are automatically updated after changing the stage set database, and including that a visualization module for the virtual visualization of the stage set accesses the stage set database and visualizes the stage set in consideration of the current locations of the lighting devices.