It's awesome that you can now access the encoder sliders, though you can only see the first couple letters of each parameter, which could be tricky with lights with more advanced features.
Also, please please PLEASE allow me to boot directly into Live mode instead of ChanCheck. This was the worst thing to happen to the iPhone app...
Just to be clear, you can download the free version, but it won't actually do anything or allow you to at least see what the screen layouts are like, etc... UNLESS you actually go and setup the entire WiFi system to enable connection, configure console, etc.... in other words get the system up and operational. At that point and after all that work, the free version drops you after 10 minutes of use. Or pay the $53 for full blown off the bat, which is cheap in any event.
Seems it would be useful to at least have the demo version allow you to play a bit before deciding to set up the entire WiFi rig.
@Gecko - Chan Check Mode vs Live Mode is a function of the console, not the RFR. The aRFR, the iRFR, and the actual hardware RFR all get their functions from the console itself. (I agree, though... it should at lease be an option in the console.)
@Steve - The RFR's (i- and a- included) will connect to a laptop running the offline software. Just put your phone and laptop on the same WiFi, fill in the fields for your laptop's info (IP, Name) in the app, and you'll at least get to page through the screens. Just like above, the RFR's get 99% of their data from the console itself. I'm sure it'll still drop you after 10 minutes, tho.
[edited by: jfuchs at 4:21 PM (GMT -6) on Fri, Oct 21 2011]
@Steve - The RFR's (i- and a- included) will connect to a laptop running the offline software. Just put your phone and laptop on the same WiFi, fill in the fields for your laptop's info (IP, Name) in the app, and you'll at least get to page through the screens. Just like above, the RFR's get 99% of their data from the console itself. I'm sure it'll still drop you after 10 minutes, tho."
Yeah,, great. My home laptop does have EOL on it, but my WiFi is MAC address filtered, as well as WAP encoded. So I have to do a re-config. to view a demo ?.
@jfuchs - That's an interesting point. I distinctly remember this change occurring during the last iRFR update... though it's possible that I updated the console software right around the same time - which could be responsible for the change. Either way, I'll try to request the change for a console option as well.
@Steve - The RFR's (i- and a- included) will connect to a laptop running the offline software. Just put your phone and laptop on the same WiFi, fill in the fields for your laptop's info (IP, Name) in the app, and you'll at least get to page through the screens. Just like above, the RFR's get 99% of their data from the console itself. I'm sure it'll still drop you after 10 minutes, tho.
Any other steps I might be missing ?. I had a brain fart and realized that I had long ago setup the phone to access the home network, so I went and dug up the laptop name as well as the IP address and entered all into the Droid App.
I also realized that I might as well pay up (it's a good cause) I am now running the paid Android version.. In theory I should launch Ion in Client Mode ?, In any event, the phone app does not see the laptop as the Connect button stays greyed.
Any thoughts ?, as the connection to a laptop that is not actually a console isn't in the ETC Doc's and I'm now presuming that the laptop wants to actually be on Net3 for this to work.
The aRFR 'demo version' is not really intended to allow you to evaluate the software alone, but more to test the ability of your hardware to run the software and connect to the system.
ETC have not tested the app with every Android device in the marketplace, so this way you can at least make sure you can establish a connection before you fork out the money.
The aRFR 'demo version' is not really intended to allow you to evaluate the software alone, but more to test the ability of your hardware to run the software and connect to the system.
ETC have not tested the app with every Android device in the marketplace, so this way you can at least make sure you can establish a connection before you fork out the money.
