3.7 Unreliable

[EddieJones]

I wonder if this happening if you recall layouts quickly one after another or before the last one fully loaded onto the surface?

[RSLAMBERT]

Hi Eddie, here’s the long version of how we are working at the moment.
We've had frequent but intermittent network issues with our S6 MTMs since upgrading to version 2.1 (when a new Windows driver for the NICs was installed as part of the S6 software update process). We are now on v3.7 and we have had the problem with every version inbetween.

Basically, the desk will drop off the network randomly. To fix it, we have to login to Windows on the MTM and open Device Manager. In Device Manager, the icon representing the NIC will have an exclamation mark on it. We right-click on the device to disable it, then right-click to enable it again. After that, everything comes back working perfectly.

Several months ago, our Avid reseller Digital Garage called me to say that he had been talking to someone from Avid about this issue. He was told that there is a known problem with port 2 on the MTM motherboards and that we should configure port 1 to connect to the Pro Tools Mac instead.

I tried to do this on two or three of our desks and everything seemed to work fine apart from the MTM would no longer display metering information on the main touchscreen. The meters are present but they don't register any levels. When I switched the desks back to using port 2, everything worked as normal.

When we upgraded to v3.7, I once again tried to switch the desks over to port 1. Oddly, three of our seven desks work fine on port 1 and correctly display metering information. The other four behave as they did last time I tried it. Everything seems to work OK but the meter information doesn't display.




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[RSLAMBERT]

Hi Eddie, here’s the long version of how we are working at the moment.
We've had frequent but intermittent network issues with our S6 MTMs since upgrading to version 2.1 (when a new Windows driver for the NICs was installed as part of the S6 software update process). We are now on v3.7 and we have had the problem with every version inbetween.

Basically, the desk will drop off the network randomly. To fix it, we have to login to Windows on the MTM and open Device Manager. In Device Manager, the icon representing the NIC will have an exclamation mark on it. We right-click on the device to disable it, then right-click to enable it again. After that, everything comes back working perfectly.

Several months ago, our Avid reseller Digital Garage called me to say that he had been talking to someone from Avid about this issue. He was told that there is a known problem with port 2 on the MTM motherboards and that we should configure port 1 to connect to the Pro Tools Mac instead.

I tried to do this on two or three of our desks and everything seemed to work fine apart from the MTM would no longer display metering information on the main touchscreen. The meters are present but they don't register any levels. When I switched the desks back to using port 2, everything worked as normal.

When we upgraded to v3.7, I once again tried to switch the desks over to port 1. Oddly, three of our seven desks work fine on port 1 and correctly display metering information. The other four behave as they did last time I tried it. Everything seems to work OK but the meter information doesn't display.





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