NANLINK

This app isn’t perfect, but it’s amazing. • Pairing lights isn’t Apple-easy, but it’s straightforward • Light control is instant—tap something onscreen and it’s live • Full color controls, with multiple input methods (color wheels, HSL sliders with fine-grain control) • Separate fixture groups is very handy if you shoot in different genres with different setups • PRESETS! Saving full HSL, intensity, and on/off info for my whole design means I can make multiple color options for clients before they arrive, and try them all instantly • A bunch of nice-to-haves: Light diagrams, sorting options, comments on fixture groups My only complaints are small: 1. Sometimes lights spontaneously lose their connection. They always come back when I tap into them. It’d be great to make that more stable. 2. There’s a short delay between tapping into a light and the settings coming up. That should be instant. Slows me down thinking and changing settings in front of clients. 3. The app needs a UX overhaul. Hard to find a bunch of important settings, and the most useful feature—saving presets—is buried several levels deep. Please put that out front! 4. Tried to create an account eight times, and never got a confirmation email, even in spam.

I might update this if it becomes incredibly frustrating in the future, but with all the one and two star reviews I wanted to say that I just purchased 2 ProTube II 6Cs, and right out of the box I was able to easily connect and control them individually, and they worked great. Much easier to navigate through the app than the on light controls, though both are good, and if I’m setting up a scene, I’m glad I have a remote option, especially since I will likely be using these vertically, which would make using the built in controls difficult. Maybe it’s just beginners luck, but to me it looks like the devs heard your complaints and worked to fix them. One effect I would love to see added, although I could probably choose a fade that would work, is a “Streetlight” mode. Like when a car is driving on a highway passing under streetlights.

PLEASE for the love of all that is holy, leave the tubes at the values of what they are instead of overriding them with whatever is on the app when you connect. Right now it is impossible to fine tune a light on a set unless you connect beforehand, you will lose your settings and potentially ruin your shot if you try to tweak in the middle of anything. There needs to be a way to gang effects across groups of lights so there can be consistency if what is projected on the tubes. Right now pixel effects are just a smattering of whatever. At the very least give us a way to do multicolor at assignable points (one half one color, one half another, etc)