SL Room Control managing speakers and network glitches
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 7:04 am
I am experiencing two issues at times. Both of which I think are caused when there are network glitches and the cabinet's/SL Room Control become unhappy and strange things happen.
Here is what I know:
1. I have multiple AI cabinets connected via wireless dongle.
2. Each speaker is assigned a name (1, 2, 3, Sub 1, Sub 2, etc.).
3. A network problem happens (router goes off-line, Mac is connected to different networks via wireless/wired, WAP signal is weak).
I can't MAKE it happen, but it happens frequently enough where it's becoming a big issue, perhaps which even includes taking the speaker out until it's power cycled. To the best of knowledge, I have correlated the issue occurring happening when the networks changes, or has problems. These cabinets have been out for awhile and no one has reported this issue so I have tried to figure it out and manage it on my own and I still can't figure out a way to work around it.
Here is what happens:
- Speakers get confused and duplicate names appear in SL Room Control, so for instance, now I will have 2 speakers with the name "1" and a 328 named "Sub 1.
- The 100Hz filter sometimes turn on when the speaker has assumed the name of another speaker in some cases.
- Can't be certain of the following, but keeping an eye on it:
1. It's possible that a cabinet that assumes the name of another cabinet is changing DSP to the group that the original named speaker is a part of (this is a huge deal!!).
2. There are some cases where the speaker becomes inoperable (no sound/no control) until it's power cycled. This has happened to me twice now in the past few months where a speaker simply stops functioning. I think it's related to this issue and again, this is a huge deal!!
In full disclosure, I have now realized that I have a router that is acting up and I am working on figuring out that problem. Regardless, the app/speakers should be resilient enough to withstand network glitches and not cause a host of other problems. My guess is that the app/cabinets programming was written and tested in a perfect world and others would not even see the problem until they have a network issue. I do have a support ticket open pending a response, but I thought I would throw this out here just in case anyone has experienced this and/or has a solution.
I run SL Room Control on a Mac.
Here is what I know:
1. I have multiple AI cabinets connected via wireless dongle.
2. Each speaker is assigned a name (1, 2, 3, Sub 1, Sub 2, etc.).
3. A network problem happens (router goes off-line, Mac is connected to different networks via wireless/wired, WAP signal is weak).
I can't MAKE it happen, but it happens frequently enough where it's becoming a big issue, perhaps which even includes taking the speaker out until it's power cycled. To the best of knowledge, I have correlated the issue occurring happening when the networks changes, or has problems. These cabinets have been out for awhile and no one has reported this issue so I have tried to figure it out and manage it on my own and I still can't figure out a way to work around it.
Here is what happens:
- Speakers get confused and duplicate names appear in SL Room Control, so for instance, now I will have 2 speakers with the name "1" and a 328 named "Sub 1.
- The 100Hz filter sometimes turn on when the speaker has assumed the name of another speaker in some cases.
- Can't be certain of the following, but keeping an eye on it:
1. It's possible that a cabinet that assumes the name of another cabinet is changing DSP to the group that the original named speaker is a part of (this is a huge deal!!).
2. There are some cases where the speaker becomes inoperable (no sound/no control) until it's power cycled. This has happened to me twice now in the past few months where a speaker simply stops functioning. I think it's related to this issue and again, this is a huge deal!!
In full disclosure, I have now realized that I have a router that is acting up and I am working on figuring out that problem. Regardless, the app/speakers should be resilient enough to withstand network glitches and not cause a host of other problems. My guess is that the app/cabinets programming was written and tested in a perfect world and others would not even see the problem until they have a network issue. I do have a support ticket open pending a response, but I thought I would throw this out here just in case anyone has experienced this and/or has a solution.
I run SL Room Control on a Mac.