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| Sidus Pro on an iPad with the Sidus One Transmitter |
This is a follow-up to my post about using Sidus Pro with the Sidus One transmitter:
https://electricgrip.blogspot.com/2026/02/best-practices-sidus-pro-and-astera-app.html
I'm a beginner with Sidus Pro, but I'm getting more comfortable with it after every shoot. Overall, Sidus Pro seems like a great wireless DMX system for smaller shoots, but I had some problems.
I was working on a studio shoot in a large manufacturing building. There are radio form (RF) issues in the space. On the first day of the shoot, the Sidus One transmitter was perfect in the morning. In the afternoon, I kept have the issue of the Sidus One disconnecting from my iPad. Sometimes, it had turned its self off, too. At one point it was doing it every 5 minutes.
That evening I looked online for issues like mine. I found other complaints about Sidus One transmitters disconnecting, but no real answers other than maybe it's an RF interference issue.
The next day I tried some things which may have helped:
- I kept the Sidus One close the the iPad rest of the shoot. I thought this would make RF interference less likely.
- At lunch the rest of the week, I would turn off the Sidus One and charge it. I was thinking, keeping the Sidus One at full power would make any RF interference less likely.
- The day I had the most trouble, I also had an Astera box running. I was only using it to check the battery power of Titan tubes rigged overhead. I was controlling the Titans with Sidus Pro. I kept the Astera box off rest of the week in case it was causing interference (unless I was checking the Titan tubes). I know in a previous post I talked about there where apparently no issues with running an Astera box and a Sidus transmitter at the same time. I'm no longer 100% sure this is the case.
I guess one of these tricks worked. I only had the Sidus One transmitter disconnect 2 times the rest of the week. Not bad.
Another issues I had was sometimes Sidus Pro/Sidus One system was laggy; slow to respond. This was an inconsistent issue that I noticed mostly with the non-Aputure lights like the Titan tubes. It was never an issue on this shoot, but I could see it being a problem. I'm guessing maybe this an RF issue, but I do not know for sure.