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Post by megash0n on Sept 9, 2020 10:54:38 GMT -5
How does it "reset" with no power? What I'm taking from this is that one should turn the power switch on, wait at least 30 seconds, and then hit the power button. Obviously the NIC can't do anything while the power toggle switch is off. I may be crazy ... but I swear sometimes I need to physically pull the line cord for like 5 min to get the unit to power up without an error. Now, only once since 2.1, and that was after an inadvertent "ungraceful" power down. But before that it was like every time. But it's so simple .... just be sure there is NO POWER for a couple minutes and then rev it up. I've had several moments where mine has been off all day and didn't boot up with the NIC active. I think the key here is that one must wait a minute after providing power to the unit. The issue with this though is, in low power stand by, you still have the issue. (Those that have the issue that is) When the NIC breaks, it takes a complete removal of power to fix itself. Low power stand by doesn't do this. I must run VRO or I have to leave my unit on 24x7...which includes my amps.
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Post by ttocs on Sept 9, 2020 11:33:43 GMT -5
But it's so simple .... just be sure there is NO POWER for a couple minutes and then rev it up.
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Post by markc on Sept 9, 2020 12:57:42 GMT -5
Is it me or is it quiet in here?
That is great news!
Firmware 2.1 came out a week ago and not much chatter about anything of significance (chatter is usually the result of issues, I.e. complaining)
I hope it lasts and most of us (myself included) stay at least semi contented!
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Post by superhelmi on Sept 10, 2020 1:51:25 GMT -5
Hi, I got my dirac Kit last weekend here in Germany. Fw 2.1 , dirac all is running as it should be ! The new dirac Version is very good, sounds very good (depending to your target curve).
There are a few questions: Is it possible to setup a specific dirac slot to a source or only for example "preset 1 and STEREO" ? In the dirac PC Softwre , you always work with one ! target setting and you can`t switch between the tree slot directly ? Right ? (On the left side there are the three slots and when you move over it, it says " Quick select with (1)" but if i click it, nothing happens.
Keith: It`s time now for a modern Android/IOS/Windows APP ! :-) Markus
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Post by zozi on Sept 10, 2020 4:17:08 GMT -5
Hello Markus,
do you have from MD Sound? THX
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Post by Stephen Park on Sept 10, 2020 6:37:58 GMT -5
Hi, I got my dirac Kit last weekend here in Germany. Fw 2.1 , dirac all is running as it should be ! The new dirac Version is very good, sounds very good (depending to your target curve). There are a few questions: Is it possible to setup a specific dirac slot to a source or only for example "preset 1 and STEREO" ? In the dirac PC Softwre , you always work with one ! target setting and you can`t switch between the tree slot directly ? Right ? (On the left side there are the three slots and when you move over it, it says " Quick select with (1)" but if i click it, nothing happens. Keith: It`s time now for a modern Android/IOS/Windows APP ! :-) Markus Hello superhelmi, The "slot" on left side pane on Dirac software, I believe that are not for select and load data purposes. You can save project and load, and export to those "slot" but not import project from it. (If I'm wrong, please someone correct me). When you choose "Preset 1" -> Dirac Live -> Enable on menu, Dirac software only connect to Preset 1. There is 3 slots available for both 2 presets, thus, you have total 6 slots. If you want use "Preset 2", you must disconnect Dirac from your processor and start all over again from select preferred preset on your processor first. I have 2 presets, Preset 1 - I named "All Channel", Preset 2 - "Stereo". Preset 1, I enabled all speakers, and slot 1 named "Default Curve", slot 2 named "Harman-4dB", slot 3 named "Harman-10dB". Preset 2, I enabled only Front Speakers, and slot 1, 2, 3 named as same as Preset 1. I use preset 2 for analog channel input, dedicated for stereo only (for music) Also I set "Curtain" range only 2Hz to 400Hz, in order to prevent processor intervene and touch any of over 400Hz sound, for preset 2 curve. This is what I've made for my system, just for example, you can do this and that whatever you like. But, as you asked, Basically you can't load Dirac setting from clicking slots on right side pane. It is just for show what is there. Those "Slot" are only for export data from Dirac software. You have to save file each set with preferred name on your disk, and only you can load those data when connected preset speaker configuration is same as your saved file. Otherwise, you only can see "Speaker configuration is not match" error messages. Hope it will help you.
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Post by Combobreaker on Sept 10, 2020 8:15:00 GMT -5
I use an Asus RT-AC68U wifi router. It's PPPOE capable. I had to look to see where this was in the control panel and I found it in the WAN Config. It's set to "Automatic IP". I see PPPOE on the dropdown list but it's not enabled. Hold on...two very different things. POE is Power over Ethernet....PPPOE is the way the router authenticates with the ISP. They have nothing to do with each other. Your WAN setting has nothing to do with the LAN side of the router. Yeah... bitzerjdb is correct about POE/PPPOE. I thought my power over ethernet might have something to do with it, but I moved my XMC-2 to another non-POE switch and it still locks up. I've been testing over the last few days again and my freezing issue is 100% related to having ethernet plugged in. ttocs... I was actually wrong in when I was telling you I could not reset my XMC-2 by holding down the power button on the front panel. This DOES work in reseting it after it locks up.
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Post by hsamwel on Sept 10, 2020 10:01:58 GMT -5
Hold on...two very different things. POE is Power over Ethernet....PPPOE is the way the router authenticates with the ISP. They have nothing to do with each other. Your WAN setting has nothing to do with the LAN side of the router. Yeah... bitzerjdb is correct about POE/PPPOE. I thought my power over ethernet might have something to do with it, but I moved my XMC-2 to another non-POE switch and it still locks up. I've been testing over the last few days again and my freezing issue is 100% related to having ethernet plugged in. ttocs ... I was actually wrong in when I was telling you I could not reset my XMC-2 by holding down the power button on the front panel. This DOES work in reseting it after it locks up. Can it be that it actually not locks up but rather get into a slowdown that’s almost feels like a lock? Experiment if it takes commands with very long wait periods, like 10-15 minutes or so. Maybe even longer.. I have noticed sometimes that real lockups are less common than the slowdowns..
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Post by ttocs on Sept 10, 2020 10:44:29 GMT -5
Combobreaker, hsamwel brings up a very good point. When I've had "lockups", some were really slowdowns - or what I call - the slow bug. The slowness can be just about any amount of time added to the command, sometimes being less than a second, to several seconds, to over a minute. So any time I pressed a button without a response and it was more than a few seconds, I would still wait for over a minute before doing anything about it. All that having been said, I haven't had even a hint of a lockup since FW2.1.
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Post by cawgijoe on Sept 10, 2020 10:58:05 GMT -5
Everything has been smooth for me with FW2.1. No lockups, no slowdowns. The ethernet port on my XMC-2 is always connected via a switch to my router. Emotiva's black box is not powered on unless I am going to use Dirac. So far I have no complaints with the latest firmware.
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Post by Combobreaker on Sept 10, 2020 11:01:34 GMT -5
Combobreaker, hsamwel brings up a very good point. When I've had "lockups", some were really slowdowns - or what I call - the slow bug. The slowness can be just about any amount of time added to the command, sometimes being less than a second, to several seconds, to over a minute. So any time I pressed a button without a response and it was more than a few seconds, I would still wait for over a minute before doing anything about it. All that having been said, I haven't had even a hint of a lockup since FW2.1. I'll test it out. I can reliably make the XMC-2 lockup when ethernet is plugged in. Not sure what it matters though... functionally is there a difference if the unit is completely frozen, or if I have to wait many seconds/minutes between commands? When it goes into that state where it gets locked up (or maybe slow as you said), I have no audio.
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Post by Combobreaker on Sept 10, 2020 11:04:13 GMT -5
Everything has been smooth for me with FW2.1. No lockups, no slowdowns. The ethernet port on my XMC-2 is always connected via a switch to my router. Emotiva's black box is not powered on unless I am going to use Dirac. So far I have no complaints with the latest firmware. Where you experiencing lockups on FW2.0? Was ethernet always plugged in when you were on FW2.0?
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Post by cawgijoe on Sept 10, 2020 11:47:11 GMT -5
Everything has been smooth for me with FW2.1. No lockups, no slowdowns. The ethernet port on my XMC-2 is always connected via a switch to my router. Emotiva's black box is not powered on unless I am going to use Dirac. So far I have no complaints with the latest firmware. Where you experiencing lockups on FW2.0? Was ethernet always plugged in when you were on FW2.0? Yes. and Yes.
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Post by ttocs on Sept 10, 2020 12:02:56 GMT -5
Combobreaker , hsamwel brings up a very good point. When I've had "lockups", some were really slowdowns - or what I call - the slow bug. The slowness can be just about any amount of time added to the command, sometimes being less than a second, to several seconds, to over a minute. So any time I pressed a button without a response and it was more than a few seconds, I would still wait for over a minute before doing anything about it. All that having been said, I haven't had even a hint of a lockup since FW2.1. I'll test it out. I can reliably make the XMC-2 lockup when ethernet is plugged in. Not sure what it matters though... functionally is there a difference if the unit is completely frozen, or if I have to wait many seconds/minutes between commands? When it goes into that state where it gets locked up (or maybe slow as you said), I have no audio. Do you have CEC enabled? I still can get slow volume and menu response when using ARC AND while the video is paused. Once video is unpaused the slowness, if it is happening because it's not every time, goes back to normal. Since I don't need ARC or CEC I keep CEC disabled completely, nothing in CEC is selected. I only enabled it to test some things. CEC should be removed from consumer electronics. Even when I had several Panasonic devices including a Plasma tv, the Panasonic DVD player could not talk to the Panasonic tv from the same series via Viera Link (CEC). ARC on the other hand is a good idea for those who need it, but should only be used for its main purpose - to get audio from the tv to the preamp. No volume, no input switching, etc. It should be as simple as using the tv remote to control the tv app, then selecting the ARC Input on the preamp and using its remote to control the volume. No cross-platform craziness.
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Post by ted29 on Sept 10, 2020 12:45:55 GMT -5
Just finished Dirac calibration without problems, I will discover Dirac now. 2.1 is all good for me
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Post by megash0n on Sept 10, 2020 13:24:17 GMT -5
I'll test it out. I can reliably make the XMC-2 lockup when ethernet is plugged in. Not sure what it matters though... functionally is there a difference if the unit is completely frozen, or if I have to wait many seconds/minutes between commands? When it goes into that state where it gets locked up (or maybe slow as you said), I have no audio. Do you have CEC enabled? I still can get slow volume and menu response when using ARC AND while the video is paused. Once video is unpaused the slowness, if it is happening because it's not every time, goes back to normal. Since I don't need ARC or CEC I keep CEC disabled completely, nothing in CEC is selected. I only enabled it to test some things. CEC should be removed from consumer electronics. Even when I had several Panasonic devices including a Plasma tv, the Panasonic DVD player could not talk to the Panasonic tv from the same series via Viera Link (CEC). ARC on the other hand is a good idea for those who need it, but should only be used for its main purpose - to get audio from the tv to the preamp. No volume, no input switching, etc. It should be as simple as using the tv remote to control the tv app, then selecting the ARC Input on the preamp and using its remote to control the volume. No cross-platform craziness. What's odd is that I have mine disabled in the RMC, but when I power on my Xbox.. The tv still follows suit.
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Post by doc1963 on Sept 10, 2020 14:21:39 GMT -5
Do you have CEC enabled? I still can get slow volume and menu response when using ARC AND while the video is paused. Once video is unpaused the slowness, if it is happening because it's not every time, goes back to normal. Since I don't need ARC or CEC I keep CEC disabled completely, nothing in CEC is selected. I only enabled it to test some things. CEC should be removed from consumer electronics. Even when I had several Panasonic devices including a Plasma tv, the Panasonic DVD player could not talk to the Panasonic tv from the same series via Viera Link (CEC). ARC on the other hand is a good idea for those who need it, but should only be used for its main purpose - to get audio from the tv to the preamp. No volume, no input switching, etc. It should be as simple as using the tv remote to control the tv app, then selecting the ARC Input on the preamp and using its remote to control the volume. No cross-platform craziness. What's odd is that I have mine disabled in the RMC, but when I power on my Xbox.. The tv still follows suit. CEC commands and discovery queries are still broadcast on the CEC bus. Turning CEC off in the RMC/XMC simply tells the processor itself not to respond to them. Other devices might. The only way to ensure CEC is blocked is to disable pin 13 in the HDMI cable. The easiest way to do that is by using a CEC-less adapter at the HDMI output of the offending device. With virtually no granularity of assignable CEC options, the ATV4K is a big offender of sending (and responding to) unwanted CEC commands. I've added a Lindy CEC-less adapter to the backside of mine and those problems were solved.
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Post by megash0n on Sept 10, 2020 14:23:46 GMT -5
What's odd is that I have mine disabled in the RMC, but when I power on my Xbox.. The tv still follows suit. CEC commands and discovery queries are still broadcast on the CEC bus. Turning CEC off in the RMC/XMC simply tells the processor itself not to respond to them. Other devices might. The only way to ensure CEC is blocked it to disable pin 13 in the HDMI cable. The easiest way to do this is by using a CEC-less adapter at the HDMI output of the offending device. With virtually no granularity of assignable CEC options, the ATV4K is a big offender of sending (and responding to) unwanted CEC commands. I've added a Lindy CEC-less adapter to the backside of mine and those problems were solved. That makes a bit more sense. I appreciate this info! I actually don't mind they way mine is working. For the most part, if the xbox is going to get turned off at night, the TV should as well.
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Post by ttocs on Sept 10, 2020 14:29:36 GMT -5
What's odd is that I have mine disabled in the RMC, but when I power on my Xbox.. The tv still follows suit. CEC commands and discovery queries are still broadcast on the CEC bus. Turning CEC off in the RMC/XMC simply tells the processor itself not to respond to them. Other devices might. The only way to ensure CEC is blocked is to disable pin 13 in the HDMI cable. The easiest way to do that is by using a CEC-less adapter at the HDMI output of the offending device. With virtually no granularity of assignable CEC options, the ATV4K is a big offender of sending (and responding to) unwanted CEC commands. I've added a Lindy CEC-less adapter to the backside of mine and those problems were solved. Funny you should mention ATV4K and CEC. When I purchased my ATV4K I couldn't understand why my projector was shutting off after a half hour. I found the CEC had been enabled on the PJ, so I turned it off again. Then it happened many other times. Over the course of a couple months I was able to track these occurrences to when I would use the ATV4K, so I looked in the menu settings and found that its form of CEC was on, so I turned it off, then went through each other HDMI component and turned them off. It was strange that the ATV4K was able to force the PJ into enabling its CEC. This was when my hate and distrust of CEC was cemented in place.
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Post by steelman1991 on Sept 10, 2020 14:31:34 GMT -5
CEC commands and discovery queries are still broadcast on the CEC bus. Turning CEC off in the RMC/XMC simply tells the processor itself not to respond to them. Other devices might. The only way to ensure CEC is blocked is to disable pin 13 in the HDMI cable. The easiest way to do that is by using a CEC-less adapter at the HDMI output of the offending device. With virtually no granularity of assignable CEC options, the ATV4K is a big offender of sending (and responding to) unwanted CEC commands. I've added a Lindy CEC-less adapter to the backside of mine and those problems were solved. Funny you should mention ATV4K and CEC. When I purchased my ATV4K I couldn't understand why my projector was shutting off after a half hour. I found the CEC had been enabled on the PJ, so I turned it off again. Then it happened many other times. Over the course of a couple months I was able to track these occurrences to when I would use the ATV4K, so I looked in the menu settings and found that its form of CEC was on, so I turned it off, then went through each other HDMI component and turned them off. It was strange that the ATV4K was able to force the PJ into enabling its CEC. This was when my hate and distrust of CEC was cemented in place. It’s the Devil’s Spawn I tell ya.
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