Tablets and MODs

Thanks for the reply, but I was asking if using USB was possible!

All suggestions are valid.
From my personal perspective, the MOD devices are for musicians and not for programmers/developers. So you have nothing to be “ashamed” about.

Regarding your suggestion, indeed that would be cool, but maybe messy if you have a lot of plugins. If you allow me to put (again) my personal perspective on the subject, I would say that perhaps an optimized system for this type of usage with tablets/smartphones. Perhaps a double finger click to “grab” the cable and another double click to release it connecting it to the input that you wish. This would make sense if this tablet/smartphone version has the typical zoom in using two fingers.

You need to make sure that your Android OS supports class compliant USB ethernet ports. If yes it should work pretty much like in a computer, or you may need to set some configurations.
Have you tried what @roughael suggested? Still didn’t work?
Could you share your Android version and your device?

Ohhhhhh I got it! I checked my IP address when plugging the Mod Duo into my phone and saw that it was 192.168.51.142! Tried 192.168.51.1 in Chrome and VOILA! I should have double checked that IP! Forgot that the bluetooth and wired addresses are different!

And for the record, I’m using a moto z4 running Android 10.

So to sum it up for future users:

  • Turn on airplane mode
  • connect Mod Duo to phone
  • enter 192.168.51.1 as the URL
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I’m using Android Tablet(via WiFi). And some features having really weird behavior. Like I’m not able to scroll names of effect groups in the bottom. In the bank editing menu scroll line is so tiny that I’m able to pick it only with stylus. Pinch zoom works like I’m zooming text but not the interface. So GUI not so smooth for touch devices.

Perfect :slight_smile: and thanks for sharing the method that worked

The WebGUI is not really optimised for mobile devices. Not sure about the dimensions of your tablet, but for what you are describing, the screen may be not that large.

I want to do music in a DAWless setup, and don’t really want to use a computer for music. I have found though that pedalboard creation really requires a computer to add and connect pedals… it’s so much more time-consuming to do the same with a tablet.
However, I found that the tablet, and even the phone, is quite convenient to view and change settings on the fly, but that my big fingers have trouble selecting the right thing.
A very nice improvement would be to be able to “(un)lock” a pedalboard easily, that would prevent messing with the cabling or moving the pedals around, and would just allow to interact with the pedals’ switches and knobs and open their settings tab.
Then, I could create my pedalboard on a computer, with all pedals and cabling, without testing the sound, then go to my music setup and tune the values and create snapshots with the tablet or phone, without running the risk to ruin the pedalboard and having to reload it (and lose all the settings already configured but not saved).

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Thanks a lot for the suggestion. This type of feedback may really help when the dev team at MOD jumps into something like this. I will make sure to save these inputs the best way possible and pull them in the talk at the right time :slight_smile:

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Do you have any advice on which Bluetooth dongle to use? I tried two on my Dwarf, both were not compatible. One of them explicitly supports Linux, I’m not sure about the other one. Both are on USB 4.0. Unfortunately, you can’t buy many Linux-compatible dongles in Germany. Is Linux compatibility enough or what do I have to look out for? Or was I just unlucky?

if you are able to tell me the usb id of that device, I can see if something custom is needed in order to support it.

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Unfortunately I don’t know the USB ID. The device is Asus USB-BT400. Is this information sufficient?

Maybe… hard to tell.
I will do a special build with this enabled.
But looking at information online about this device, it seems to need custom firmware (just like most WiFi chips) Linux Installation guide for Asus USB-BT400 · GitHub

So for that to work it needs custom steps as described in WiFi - MOD Wiki

Would that work for you? Are you able to run similar steps to copy over the needed firmware?

EDIT: our automated builder is out of space :scream:
no new builds today

Cool! Yes, let me try this. I didn’t see the WiFi - MOD Wiki yet, but tis can work. I am also a developer, sadly for PC-games :slight_smile: and not for sound devices and Linux. But I think this is achievable. Man thanks for the quick response!

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np. I have to wait now because we need to do something on the server to free up space.
I will ping you with a build to try later on.

Cool! Thanks a lot! :grinning:

Hi falkTX,
any news?

Yes, since then automated builder works again and we have been internally using an OS image with additional bluetooth drivers with no issues whatsoever.
So I will push that as part of v1.10.2

Will PM you with an early build in a few moments.

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I tried connecting the Dwarf to my brand new Xiaomi Redmi Tablet via USB. I had to use an adapter because the table only has USB C connection.

I tried as detailed in the topic: turned off wifi and bluetooth but no connection to the GUI at 192.168.51.1

Most likely it could be solved by disabling Windows compatibility in the Dwarf settings. If it doesn’t solve the problem you could try a usb c to usb b cable or another adapter.
Did you try to connect the dwarf to another mobile device?