[MitchellParticipant]

If you remove the CMOS battery (which requires at least de-soldering it, but might be easier to just cut or repeatedly bend the leads to break them), I suspect the need for a password will be cleared so you won’t need it.

[MitchellParticipant]

After more trouble-shooting, this popping sound (it is one very loud tick, that might be repeated like a crackle, or just the one, very alarming and disruptive to hear) was definitely the AES digital output, not due to any of the inputs. In our case, the problem is on an xDR-16, but I’m sure the hardware is identical for an iDR-32.

We were able to reassign the same iLive mix to an analogue output (G1 through G4, and not use that AES output) and to use that analogue output instead of the digital output and the popping has stopped, so the noise was not due to any of the inputs. The popping happened on both channels of an AES output (that is on G7 and G8 of the same XLR connector), but not on the adjacent AES output (so the G5 and G6 beside that do not have this problem).

As the AES outputs are not a plug-in card, fixing this will require removing the xDR-16 from the rack opening the unit and seeing what would need to be replaced or repaired to remedy this.

[MitchellParticipant]

We too have this on one AES digital output. Has been happening for a few years, was initially rarely, but now needs to be figured out.

[MitchellParticipant]

If you have access to your Wi-Fi router’s administration interface, you might be able to view the DHCP client table on it. This would show you the IP address given out by the DHCP server for each MAC address. My iPad has a MAC address starting with BC:3B:AF so yours may too (the top half of the address is assigned to each manufacturer), so you’ll know which addresses to look for (if those were the only iPads getting IP addresses from your Wi-Fi routers).

[MitchellParticipant]

iLive uses 1000 Mbit/s Ethernet only for Dante audio, all other connections (Surface, MixRack, xDR …) are only 100 Mbit/s, so any Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6, and Cat6A cables will work:
– Regardless of whether they are shielded or not.
– So long as each cable run is not longer than 100 metres, and the cables have not been damaged by being bent too sharply.

[MitchellParticipant]

I agree this has everything to do with how good the Wi-Fi signal strength is, and very little to do with the IP address / DHCP. The key is to pick a Wi-Fi channel that has little interference with other users (check this using a laptop or cell phone to display the channels used by each SSID), and to ensure good signal strength (for example that there are as few obstructions as possible between the antennas).

[MitchellParticipant]

Is it a direct Cat5 cable connection between your MixRack and Surface, and between your MixRack and XDR. How long are these cables.

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