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[Tim McCulloch]

So what's the diff between someone else's off the shelf wireless cue lights and ETC 2.4gHz system?  Neither use wires so I find your blanket statement confusing.

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Joe Wilson <fader...@gmail.com>: Feb 05 07:28PM -0500 I'd be hard pressed to trust a wireless cue light system, personally. Too much potential for failure, especially if you don't have feedback in your signaling system.   Back when I had an analog snake, I had some XLR shells that included a pair of 12V LEDs and would run them through XLR cable and my snake to a switch box at the SM desk.   These days we use ETC's CueSystem, which is over an IP network.   I imagine you could use a pair of wireless APs to create a wireless link and use an IP based cue light system pretty successfully.   That said, I strongly prefer wired signaling for cue lights.   ~joe     -- _________________________ Joe Wilson, ATD/Sound Indian River State College   Adding one more "me too" to the collective internet consciousness.

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[rbing...@juno.com]

I could be wrong, but I don’t think ETC suggests anyone use 2.4GHz wireless (Wi-Fi) to operate their ethernet based Cue Light systems.  I’ve only ever seen them use wired connection in demonstrations and I don’t know anyone that has them that doesn’t plug them in with ethernet cables.  The nodes all need POE if my memory serves correctly anyway, which means you need to hook it up to a switch that provides that or a POE injector.  I guess there probably isn’t anything stopping someone from putting a 2.4GHz link in there somewhere but I don’t believe ETC recommends that.

 

Richard B Ingraham