Widgets drop off and stop working with in 5 mins of starting up

humm. Intresting view point.
As for Power Options. I have found nothing in windows power,or any other settings applying to USB power. To answer a future question. all my power settings are set to never turn off. My power settings are set no to turn off. go on stand by. Nor do I have any sort of screen saver that activates.

If I get the chance tonight, Ill look into self powered usb hub. Granted, here at my shop, I don't have the same setup as the common venue I am at, but it's worth a shot.

Also you have brought up a good point about power. Since the dmx widget is powering off of the laptop only. And I know for a fact that the DMX jack I plug into on site to service the light truss is located on stage right, sending across a cable line at least 200' away from the booth where the DMX IsoSplitter Is located. I'm sure a cause coudl be that the signal takes to long to respond, along with the distance travled causing the signal power to die off locking up the widget. I guess I wil have to use a DMX Iso inline right after the widget and before the stage right wall jack.

If I plug a Hog500/1000 into that same stage right DMX jack. I do not have any issue. Then again, I would take a stab that a physical console's DMX amprage output is much higher/stronger compaired to a USB DMX Widget.

humm. Intresting view point.
As for Power Options. I have found nothing in windows power,or any other settings applying to USB power. To answer a future question. all my power settings are set to never turn off. My power settings are set no to turn off. go on stand by. Nor do I have any sort of screen saver that activates.

If I get the chance tonight, Ill look into self powered usb hub. Granted, here at my shop, I don't have the same setup as the common venue I am at, but it's worth a shot.

Also you have brought up a good point about power. Since the dmx widget is powering off of the laptop only. And I know for a fact that the DMX jack I plug into on site to service the light truss is located on stage right, sending across a cable line at least 200' away from the booth where the DMX IsoSplitter Is located. I'm sure a cause coudl be that the signal takes to long to respond, along with the distance travled causing the signal power to die off locking up the widget. I guess I wil have to use a DMX Iso inline right after the widget and before the stage right wall jack.

If I plug a Hog500/1000 into that same stage right DMX jack. I do not have any issue. Then again, I would take a stab that a physical console's DMX amprage output is much higher/stronger compaired to a USB DMX Widget.