The peril of new lights (Patreon)

These lights are so new that they didn't even have flightcases for them. Instead they were shipped to us in their sealed cardboard boxes.

They're interesting lights, but the Nandos in particular had many issues with their software.

The first and most obvious bug was that they would randomly start panning back and forth with no data on the DMX network to make them do that. They rushed a software fix to stop that and we had to manually load it into each group of lights.

Next problem was one we called "smarties", because the lights would gradually accumulate random low intensity colours in their LED modules until hard-reset. Two more firmware updates later and we have that resolved too.

The little Kyalami lights have been OK, but initially had an issue with losing their index positions after a few movements. That also required a firmware update!

That's the peril of new lights.

We've got another test-light coming, which is interesting. It's got another laser-phosphor source, and is so bright that it apparently has a LIDAR type sensor on it to detect people and objects in its vicinity, and dim the output for safety.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PWhZm4p5Z0k