So my high school got an ETC element board (pretty sure this is only its 3rd year in our theater). We got a wireless router for it and set up the iRFR app on our director's ipad (he's the only one willing to pay for it). It worked throughout all of last year, was great for turning lights on for focus or someone else running a couple cues in a show, etc. Recently it just stopped working, the app recognizes the board, and all the settings are right on the board. The app continues to give me the "connection failed connection refused" error whenever I try to connect, any explanation for this?
Control/Dimming iRFR connection issue
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lghtingguy
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In this case - at this time - that may not be true. There is a lot of additional traffic being generated in the newer EOS software versions and some routers just don't handle it very well.
You can configure the WAN port on an airport and it will filter out a lot of this unwanted traffic. You can get an old school airport extreme on ebay for $15.
Like I said - if the poster would like a solution to their problem - post all the relevant details and we'll have you sorted out. No point buying new hardware before we check all the DHCP/IP settings on the Desk, router and ipad.
Exactly. Plus, Apple devices have a special tendency to not like linksys and some other routers.
Agreed - I've had $150 wifi routers (with a certain popular fruit emblazoned on the sides) fail miserably, while the $15 one from the thrift store worked perfectly. Try surveying for frequency use and tweaking as appropriate before going out and buying anything new.
Could you explain that a bit more? Its been 9 years since I took my CCNA but unless something has changed a frame is a frame.... And the 802.11(x) standards should take care of it. If your buying hardware that does not play well with certain AP's then you have a bigger problem. At work we use Cisco and Linksys gear only and I have never had an issue getting an apple device on.
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lghtingguy
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First a disclaimer - I'm not a technical guy. I do a bit of EOS programming though....
None of this has anything to do with cisco/linksys versus apple. So if we can let's put all that baggage aside.
Currently in an EOS environment there can SOMETIMES be issues using certain routers. I've gone through several linksys and netgear routers. They worked great for years and then sometime during the EOS 2.0 beta process they just stopped working effectively. After months of digging around (it was a long beta) - it looks to be a lot of additional console (non-irfr) traffic - which some wireless routers are choking on. I've had people suggest things like Multicast filtering and a few other things - but I don't know. The 4 linksys/netgear routers I owned did not support Multicast filtering - sad pony.
At the suggestion of friend I got a cheapo airport extreme off ebay and configured the WAN port - not the LAN. The problems went away. Dancing Pony.
All of this may go away in some future console release. It may not. ETC is pretty quite about all things iRFR. They don't take any $ for it - for the sole reason that they can't provide support for these kinds of issues. Not their router, not their ipad - not their problem.
If anyone can fill in the technical details - that would be super. I for one would be very interested - I run into all kinds of different equipment, in venues big and small. For now - I'm the proud owner of 3 airport extremes - and my iRFR rocks them all.
Hope that helps.
