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So Day 3 in the hospital with my 15 year old recovering from his ruptured appendix. All good, he's healthy. But we are both bored out of our skulls. Some music would be a nice distraction...good thing I packed the H2Go when I made the quick trip home to shower and get some fresh clothes.
Wary of joining the public wifi I have been running the Mac and H2Go off of a shared iphone's personal hotspot connection, and it was working wonderfully for hours. Have been streaming YouTube music videos and live concert footage from the Mac via Airplay to the H2Go, and it is sounding quite good and very much passing the time. Better than just hooking up the Airpod Pros, right? Nice that 4G is having this good of bandwidth, almost surprising.
Worried I might be running the H2Go batteries low, I plugged it in.
You guessed it. I made it about 10 more minutes then the whole thing crapped itself. Mac is no longer showing 2Go as an audio Airplay option. Go Figure can't find the device at all any longer. Reboot H2Go, doesn't reconnect or fix anything. I rebooted both, right? I think so? Maybe I need to do them individually?
Unplug, do a few more reboot gymnastics because rebooting plugged in doesn't power down the 2Go. Restart GoFigure a couple of times. It doesn't reconnect to the iPhone's wifi. Try again, two more times, and on the third retry, whoops, it attached this time, almost by accident. 8-10 minutes of fiddling to get back too working. Because I plugged it in.
You might read from my previous posts that I have been very forgiving of these two Chord products, probably to a fault. When properly working, as noted by most, the SQ is so good that you can often overlook the warts.
But dude, being on power and this thing turns into a complete turd product? How is that possible? It's charging and presumably running off of power too, and trying to play music. Really shouldn't be complicated. This should be the ideal desktop product for all-day listening. But its battery doesn't last all day. And it doesn't work when on power.
Sorry, thought maybe I'd earned a gripe. Gripe spent either way.
Wary of joining the public wifi I have been running the Mac and H2Go off of a shared iphone's personal hotspot connection, and it was working wonderfully for hours. Have been streaming YouTube music videos and live concert footage from the Mac via Airplay to the H2Go, and it is sounding quite good and very much passing the time. Better than just hooking up the Airpod Pros, right? Nice that 4G is having this good of bandwidth, almost surprising.
Worried I might be running the H2Go batteries low, I plugged it in.
You guessed it. I made it about 10 more minutes then the whole thing crapped itself. Mac is no longer showing 2Go as an audio Airplay option. Go Figure can't find the device at all any longer. Reboot H2Go, doesn't reconnect or fix anything. I rebooted both, right? I think so? Maybe I need to do them individually?
Unplug, do a few more reboot gymnastics because rebooting plugged in doesn't power down the 2Go. Restart GoFigure a couple of times. It doesn't reconnect to the iPhone's wifi. Try again, two more times, and on the third retry, whoops, it attached this time, almost by accident. 8-10 minutes of fiddling to get back too working. Because I plugged it in.
You might read from my previous posts that I have been very forgiving of these two Chord products, probably to a fault. When properly working, as noted by most, the SQ is so good that you can often overlook the warts.
But dude, being on power and this thing turns into a complete turd product? How is that possible? It's charging and presumably running off of power too, and trying to play music. Really shouldn't be complicated. This should be the ideal desktop product for all-day listening. But its battery doesn't last all day. And it doesn't work when on power.
Sorry, thought maybe I'd earned a gripe. Gripe spent either way.