ULTRA MK2 Status Info

The Status Information menu provides info about the current hardware/network status. It is useful when info like SD card free status or buffering status need to be checked by the user.

Battery:

The Battery gauge shows an estimation of battery state of charge, based on measuring its voltage. If projecting, the reading will move around under load, showing a slightly lower reading as the scan complexity / output power varies.

Whilst charging, the battery state of charge cannot be measured.

Remote Slaves:

If using Cube Link, gives the number of connected slave devices.

Buffer Free:

displays the current buffer space available.

Buffer Size:

displays the maximum buffer level.

SD Card Capacity:

shows the reported capacity of the SD Card in Gigabytes

SD Card Free:

shows the remaining capacity of the SD Card in Gigabytes

PKT RX Events:

shows the number of received packets. When in LaserOS Control Mode, this will increase rapidly as each packet of projection data is received.

Clicking on this entry will reset the count to zero.

DAC Empty Events:

displays the number of buffer under-run events.

This can happen due to lost packets, disabling the interlock or selecting the test patterns. Clicking on this entry will reset the count to zero.

DAC Full Events:

displays the number of buffer overflow events.

Clicking on this entry will reset the count to zero.

PKT Loss Events:

displays the number of lost packets. Lost UDP packets are common when using WiFi, especially in “congested” areas with many competing devices. Lost packets will be give the symptom of brief and intermittent drop-outs of the projection.

Moving away from the WiFi congested area, or preferably using a wired Ethernet connection will minimize this. Clicking on this entry will reset the count to zero.

MAC Address:

MAC Address, unique to each Ultra Mk2 laser cube.