Funk Connection

[Fatima Teem]

Recently, I was talking to a friend about the central role of the telephone in daily life before cellphones, and even before the era of the dial-up internet. More than the early internet, or even TV and radio, the telephone was the surest direct connection from your insular life at home to the outside world in all its scale and complexity.

With five or six TV channels, you generally knew what you were getting into. Bud Kraehling would show up at his usual times every day. Radio, with its overnight AM stations broadcast from hundreds of miles way, could provide a little more unpredictability. I remember the first night I ever picked up T.D. Mischke on an AM radio, and how bizarre and otherworldly his show seemed, like it was being broadcast from a more interesting alternate dimensions.

Legally blind from birth and possessing perfect pitch, Engressia discovered phreaking as a child in the 1950s, completely by accident, while aimlessly whistling a tune during a phone call. Over the course of his adolescence, his ability to recreate a 2600 Hz tone by whistling made him a pioneer in phreaking circles. Engressia was charged in the late 1960s for malicious mischief, and subsequently abandoned phreaking. He never abandoned his love for the telephone, however.

Then the tone changes, and Prince imagines the caller dialing up 612-474-1751 from their bedroom, late at night. Here he explicitly connects the act of ringing up a hotline and the loneliness of the long-distance caller:

No discussion of bored teenagers on the telephone would be complete without Gabline and Gabteen. Before the 1-900 and 1-976 explosion, Northwestern Bell offered a pre-Internet way for people to talk to teens anonymously. Nothing could go wrong, there.

Lest his legacy be forgotten, a few facts about him, if I recall them correctly. He used to take the phone into the closet to hide from his abusive family, and listened to the dial tone to avoid listening to the family horror. And he moved to Minneapolis on June 12, because the area code is 612.

I have contacted support multiple times, completed all steps requested, confirmed my network is not the issue, tried a brand new controller sent from Nanoleaf and the problems still persist. I have had these for years and they worked without issue until a few months. Here are some additional steps I have taken;

I reviewed the ticket that you have open with Nanoleaf Customer Support.
Would you happen to remember if the LED on your controller would begin to flash when the controller lost connection with your app? I am trying to isolate the issue, whether its between the controller and the WiFi router, or between the app and the controller (via the WiFi router, but there is no issue between the app and the WiFi router so that's ruled out).

Now, everything I mentioned would have been in the past, there is another issue that you are facing which is the issue with the iOS app. We are currently trying to resolve that with Apple since that error is thrown by the iOS system which we have no visibility over.
To unblock you in the interim, you can use the Nanoleaf desktop app ( -CA/integration-hub/desktop-app/) which will allow you to provision the controllers to your network again and we can look at the LED as I mentioned above.

@"Aliakbar Eski"
I have no checked to see if the light flashes when it loses connectivity. Honestly, I don't know if I could actual pinpoint this because the lights will work for days/weeks and then just stop. I would have to stare at the device for weeks on end potentially to see if this occurs and unfortunately that is no realistic.

I have restarted my phone multiple times but that doesn't seem to resolve the setup issue consistently. I was able to complete the setup via Apple HomeKit once or twice when the setup wouldn't complete via the Nanoleaf app.

I will checkout the desktop app but that will solve the connectivity issues. If there are any other steps I can take to troubleshoot this please let me know! (I will keep an eye on the light on the controller when they lose connectivity and reply once I have some definitive info).

Hey @wheelhouse
If the LED is not doing anything, your controller is connected to the router and happy. At that point, any app that has been paired, should technically work (barring any other OS related issues).

Restarting the phone has resolved this case in some cases and not all. It was a failed attempt. The Nanoleaf app and the Home App use the same pairing method that is Apple's HomeKit pairing. Its funny (and probably coincidental) that it worked from one app and not the other, but FWIW, it doesn't matter. Once paired with your home app, its also paired with your Nanoleaf app automatically.

If you do have it paired, and there is an upgrade waiting for the controller, go ahead and upgrade it. Apart from that, under your normal course of usage, if the controller does show unreachable in the app, let me know if the effect on the panels also seems frozen or not and if the controller's buttons work. Apart from that, at this point of time I don't want the troubleshooting to take up any more of your time.

The lights are unreachable again. The module is not flashing. The error is pretty generic stating to make sure I'm connected to the wifi and that the nanoleaf is plugged in. No changes have been made what-so-ever.

@"Aliakbar Eski" @"Gary Funk" the device is "unreachable" in my nanoleaf app on my macbook air and also on my iphone. Rebooted my phone and this made no change. The exact error is "Device is unreachable. Please ensure it's powered on and your IOS device is connected to the same wifi network. Try turning your wifi on and off or power cycling your nanoleaf device." The nanoleaf has also been rebooted by unplugging it from power for 10ish hours and then plugging it back in.

@"Aliakbar Eski" It's been a few months and my lights are essentially useless. The desktop app no longer works (after updated the latest version) and the phone will connect 2% of the time will only make changes if it's in a good mood (which is rare). I'm ready to throw these in the garbage. What is the next step here?

Could you try to reset the DNS server? You can try to resolve the issue with the following commands:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew
nbtstat -r
netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt
netsh winsock reset
Or, anything issue with the IP address, try to follow the methods mentioned below.
-area-connection-doesent-have-a-valid-ip/

Mothership Connection is the fourth album by American funk band Parliament, released on December 15, 1975 on Casablanca Records. This concept album is often rated among the best Parliament-Funkadelic releases, and was the first to feature horn players Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, who had previously backed James Brown in the J.B.'s.Mothership Connection became Parliament's first album to be certified gold and later platinum. It was supported by the hit "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)," the band's first million-selling single. The Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry in 2011, declaring "The album has had an enormous influence on jazz, rock and dance music."The record breaking album has been reissued on a limited edition 1LP translucent grape vinyl and includes an 11 x 11 window cling sticker.

Tracklist:

A1. P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)
A2. Mothership Connection (Star Child)
A3. Unfunky UFO

B1. Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication
B2. Handcuffs
B3. Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)
B4. Night Of The Thumpasorus Peoples

By 1975, Parliament had established themselves as one of the pre-eminent bands in the pantheon of African-American music. Guided by the mad genius of George Clinton, and building upon the funk foundation of James Brown and a hippie ethos inherited from Sly And The Family Stone, Parliament transformed from a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, into a psychedelic funk-rock collective who broke all the rules with reckless abandon. They were essentially one band with two personalities: Funkadelic, the psychedelic, eclectic voodoo-rock outfit; and Parliament, the extraterrestrial explorers, mining the outer limits for uncut funk. With the release of Mothership Connection, on December 15, 1975, the latter unleashed a momentous album that changed the very nature of popular music.

While Clinton is the undisputed star of the show, his ability to assemble some of the best musicians on the planet and give them free rein to explore their musicianship has always been a P-Funk hallmark, and that practice can be heard throughout Mothership Connection.

Initialed by P as in Patty Walker, who has performed and recorded as a vocalist with Rock n Roll Hall of Famer George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic for 30 + years, 9 members from funky backgrounds has united together under her.

Charlie Bynam as funky Bass guitarist to hold down on the one, who also plays Bass Moog and is a musical director himself, played with Drac for Slave, Calvin Richardson, Case, Jon B., Kenny Latimore, Kevon Edmonds, Bobby Valentino, etc.

At the beginning of 1975, Gerald Ford was president, the United States and Soviet Union were approaching a dtente in the Space Race, and a wildly imaginative barber turned singer named George Clinton was redefining the possibilities of funk music with his bands Funkadelic and Parliament.

These collaborations felt like stand-ins for the interpersonal connections that this fraught new reality threatened to destroy. And, anyway, they were big-budget distractions, superstars sounding as though they had been dropped into a studio in paradise to lay down some sunny vocals. But as urgent as it felt five years ago, the search for escapism and meaningful shared experiences in 2022 is even more pointed. It seems like this would have been the perfect time for Harris to return with a continuation of the Funk Wav Bounces series. And the announcement of Vol. 2 earlier this year did spark a brief moment of nostalgia: another collection of blissful collaborations arriving just in time for summer.

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