[Tyler MarshallParticipant]

Yes the Macbook is always wired to the router and running editor as a backup – I can’t typically use a remote access app because the Macbook is running Keynote to drive our videos – so I f I remote to the desktop I will just see the Keynote screen (which is what ‘Keynote Remote’ is for, already running on the iPad.

Tyler Martin
H2 Entertainment, Winnipeg (Canada)
iDR-16
iPad2 w/mixpad
D-Link DIR-815 (on 5GHz ‘A’ only, no WEP/WPA, Mac filter ON, Multicast ON)
Macbook Pro w/editor 1.83

[Tyler MarshallParticipant]

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Originally posted by Joe90

At present in the utility > style tab you have colour options for background, border, disabled and text. Can another be added for lost connection so when wifi drops out the background changes to a chosen colour and when it reconnects reverts back to your normal chosen colour / appearence and if you don’t want this just set the ‘background’ and ‘lost wifi background’ the same settings. This would definately be quite obvious MixPad wasn’t connected and in my opinion the more obvious it is the better…

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LOVE THIS IDEA!! – Your chosen ‘normal’ background when everything is working – and RED when the ship goes down!!!!!

Tyler Martin
H2 Entertainment, Winnipeg (Canada)
iDR-16
iPad2 w/mixpad
D-Link DIR-815 (on 5GHz ‘A’ only, no WEP/WPA, Mac filter ON, Multicast ON
Macbook Pro w/editor 1.83

[Tyler MarshallParticipant]

Alright so the de-brief from the 2 Wednesday shows last week:

Show 1: Middle-years school (not many smartphones in the room) – works all good thru Soundcheck, show starts – sitting maybe 50ft. from the now-elevated router, clean line of sight. Works no prob for 20 minutes then the sequence….

1) Meters start randomly dancing around, GATE indicators flash (still have control of all mixes)
2) Meters REALLY going nuts, still have control of currently selected output, can not change to other AUX or MIX
3) Lose control, shut down, re-start app – wors fine for the rest of the show (40 minutes).

The whole time I can swap back and forth to the keynote remote, and never lose wireless connectivity so I”m leaning back towards the mixpad app that may be buggy????

Show 2: Afternoon in high-school, 550 student most with blackberrys (yes I do feel horrible for them) and iPhones.

Mixpad work great for about 26 minutes off the top, meters start dancing around. I save myself the 5 minute sequence and pick a spot in the beginning of a song without too many adjustments and opt to re-start the app – then works fine for the rest of the show.

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I know I’m not providing much assistance for diagnosis but this is REALLY annoying. I”m hoping the next version of Mixpad (hopefully REAL soon) addresses some stability issues as I’m quite sure its not the wireless at this point.

Gary I will be trying your remote desktop solution next week to overcome the lack of FX adjustments from Mixpad – thanks alot for the idea!

Tyler Martin
H2 Entertainment, Winnipeg (Canada)
iDR-16
iPad2 w/mixpad
D-Link DIR-815 (on 5GHz ‘A’ only, no WEP/WPA, Mac filter ON, Multicast ON
Macbook Pro w/editor 1.83

[Tyler MarshallParticipant]

Also …. could we change the background / upload new file to the ipad???

Tyler Martin
H2 Entertainment, Winnipeg (Canada)
iDR-16
iPad2 w/mixpad
D-Link DIR-815 (on 5GHz ‘A’ only, no WEP/WPA, Mac filter ON, Multicast ON
Macbook Pro w/editor 1.83

[Tyler MarshallParticipant]

WOW guys thanks so much for the insight…. I had a show today and she worked fine without 300 students in the room, that all changed once they were in – wireless went stupid again.

Wednesday I have 2 shows – will immediately try switching to 5Ghz and elevating the router. Will post my feedback hopefully Wednesday night.

Tyler Martin
H2 Entertainment, Winnipeg (Canada)
iDR-16,iPad2 w/mixpad, Macbook Pro w/editor 1.83

[Tyler MarshallParticipant]

Thanks Scott – The Dlink 815 Router lists the connected devices in the ‘status’ screen so I’ll just grab the MAC addresses from there. I’ll keep an eye on orientation of the ipad – or at least try and figure out where the internal antenna is. I just put it in an Otterbox case so I hope that doesn’t squash it too badly. We have 5 shows this week so I’ll post an update to my findings, and try and get the router elevated a little.

Tyler Martin
H2 Entertainment, Winnipeg (Canada)
iDR-16,iPad2 w/mixpad, Macbook Pro w/editor 1.83

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