I've got some (possibly) good news on the myDMXGo front. I bought a pair of antennas off amazon:
Finally got around yesterday to setup for testing. In the past, I've connected wifi to the box, then Donner dongle transmitter over to the units (I've also run it hard-wired, and it failed as well). With this new antenna (it's a lot longer than the one that comes on the box), I'm planning to perm-mount the box onto my T-bar and hard-wire it into the first unit, then use the Donner to jump to the 2nd t-bar. To remind you of my rig, I have 2 Chauvet Spot Intimidator 255 moving heads on each mini-T-bar with a Chauvet Colorstrip mini on each as well. At this point, I've not done the firmware update (that some say will fix the connection issue), but planning to do that later today. I also have not updated my iOS app (iPad) in several months. I also don't remember which channel the unit is on. Will check that when I update the firmware.
After I first setup, I went into the fixture designer. The app worked for a half-hour, then threw a pop-up, something about the fixture creator, and the app froze. The lights were still running on the selected program. I rebooted the ipad, went back into run mode and it's been running ever since then (about 24+ hours). No disconnects, just run and run and run. Can't say this is a totally reliable test but it sure is encouraging. After updating the firmware, I'm planning to velcro mount the box to the colorstrip, then install a Donner transmitter onto the first t-bar, then setup the 2nd t-bar and test both sets of lights. It's a big fingers-crossed, but at least encouraging.
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Finally got around yesterday to setup for testing. In the past, I've connected wifi to the box, then Donner dongle transmitter over to the units (I've also run it hard-wired, and it failed as well). With this new antenna (it's a lot longer than the one that comes on the box), I'm planning to perm-mount the box onto my T-bar and hard-wire it into the first unit, then use the Donner to jump to the 2nd t-bar. To remind you of my rig, I have 2 Chauvet Spot Intimidator 255 moving heads on each mini-T-bar with a Chauvet Colorstrip mini on each as well. At this point, I've not done the firmware update (that some say will fix the connection issue), but planning to do that later today. I also have not updated my iOS app (iPad) in several months. I also don't remember which channel the unit is on. Will check that when I update the firmware.
After I first setup, I went into the fixture designer. The app worked for a half-hour, then threw a pop-up, something about the fixture creator, and the app froze. The lights were still running on the selected program. I rebooted the ipad, went back into run mode and it's been running ever since then (about 24+ hours). No disconnects, just run and run and run. Can't say this is a totally reliable test but it sure is encouraging. After updating the firmware, I'm planning to velcro mount the box to the colorstrip, then install a Donner transmitter onto the first t-bar, then setup the 2nd t-bar and test both sets of lights. It's a big fingers-crossed, but at least encouraging.