Control one unit with another via ethernet (Budget stagebox)

[Ronnie]

Allow a CQ18T or CQ12T to act as a remote for another unit or a CQ20B effectively allowing use as a stagebox but without needing any audio to be transmitted over the ethernet line and eliminating the hardware requirements of encoding and decoding audio.

[Brian]

These consoles don’t have any of that capacity built into them. It’s a hardware limitation that will prevent A&H from implementing your suggestion.

[Ronnie]

I can accept that they cant encode and decode audio. But my thinking is that they already have bi directional control over ethernet via the app. And so one master unit at FOH could control the other over ethernet and all audio IO would be on the slave unit on the stage end.

[Brian]

Ah, I misunderstood your initial post. You just want the second console to act as a remote software controller for the primary console that has all the I/O connected. Basically using a second console in leu of a tablet/computer running the A&H CQ MixPad app. That is an interesting concept/request.

I assume you are thinking about this option because the MixPad app isn’t great and only available on iOS.

I’ll just say that there are more options coming so we aren’t stuck using the CQ MixPad only. Personally I’d much rather use a tablet or computer running the third party app Mixing Station (currently beta testing a CQ-20 version with the other versions to follow) which even allows you to use motorized Midi fader banks for real physical faders than I would want to try to run a show off the console’s touch screen. Even with the cost of a Midi fader bank, this would cost much less than a second CQ console and would provide more functionality. Obviously this device can be hardwired to the CQ console’s ethernet connection to ensure reliable performance as well.

[BigMerv]

I remember a similar conversation in the Qu forum, that was to use a QU-PAC a stage box.
It got canned due to “internal clock” issues between the two devices IIRC.
Maybe this will be different!

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