Hello, my theatre recently upgraded to a Unison network for the brains but kept some of the pathway nodes elsewhere to save costs. It's been working fairly well for things that always stay plugged in. Unfortunately it becomes kind of spotty when people start to come in and add things to the network. Sometimes the extra nodes we have take a couple of times of unplugging ethernet and replugging to get the system to send them the proper dmx lines.
A similar but different issue has been happening with our ION where we sometimes have to type in the static IP into the network shell or it doesn't connect properly. A second, more annoying problem is that occasionally someone will kick the network cable for the ion out of the jack under the desk. For this, we don't know about it until 5 minutes later when the dimmers fade everything down.
My question is: has anyone created or found a way to monitor the system and alert the operator if for example, one of the nodes becomes disconnected? I have a wireless router connected for iRFR and have been using the android app Fing to check if I can see other nodes and desks attached to the network when I start up for the day, but it doesn't alert me if the ION ethernet gets kicked out.
I would love if the answer was that I need to download a better network app for my tablet but I haven't found one yet.
