Easy one for you ;-)
Posted: 01 Sep 2017, 19:24
I have a very simple qDSLRDashboard request that I think will be very helpful to some new users who have trouble connecting to a DDServer. Can you please change the message that currently says:
"DDServer not found, connecting to IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
to something more specific like:
"Could not automatically detect DDServer on your network. Connecting to IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
or even just:
"Connecting to IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
It may seem like an inconsequential change, but that would have saved me hours. When I read the message the way it is now, I interpreted the "DDServer not found" part as qDSLR completely giving up on finding a DDServer. The "connecting to IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" part did not register at all. I don't know why, but my brain could not see past the first part of the message. Now that I know how the DDserver discovery works, the current message makes sense. But before I understood that it first tries UDP discovery and then fails over to a specific IP, it was confusing and even though I had things configured correctly I thought I had done something wrong.
Thanks
Jarrod
"DDServer not found, connecting to IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
to something more specific like:
"Could not automatically detect DDServer on your network. Connecting to IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
or even just:
"Connecting to IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
It may seem like an inconsequential change, but that would have saved me hours. When I read the message the way it is now, I interpreted the "DDServer not found" part as qDSLR completely giving up on finding a DDServer. The "connecting to IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" part did not register at all. I don't know why, but my brain could not see past the first part of the message. Now that I know how the DDserver discovery works, the current message makes sense. But before I understood that it first tries UDP discovery and then fails over to a specific IP, it was confusing and even though I had things configured correctly I thought I had done something wrong.
Thanks
Jarrod