@ninedd wrote:Brubble1 - I agree that the native Cambium interface is pretty wonky, although it's clearly better than it was as far as speed goes. However, it's still very frustrating on a phone, on a roof for sure - and still way too slow, and you're right... on a small screen, it's got those floating menu's covering up everything that you need to get at. And then it'll log the installer out and he's got to start over.... So Kudo's on how much better it is now from before, but my support and management and installation staff complain about the same thing. ePMP are the best performing radios we've used, but ePMP are among the worst for installers and for troubleshooting.
However, have you tried the Android App that NewKirk did?
http://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t5/ePMP-2000-and-1000/Mobile-Android-App-to-configure/td-p/42073Or this alignment tool thingy?
https://youtu.be/6DQK6xPoA4A
I agree the interface is a lot faster and more usable than it use to be. But really , being better than that is a pretty low bar to clear. I will someday I will tell installers scary campfire stories about the days of the Force110 and the ePMP frozen molasses interface.
Cambium has some of the best RF engineers in the world (I assume the y are the old Motorola RF guys who were the best of the best). I don't think anyone can make better radios than their rf people.
I wish I had the time, knowledge and skill to do what newkirk has done, that is just awesome and I'm so envious. But I can't train installers to use his tool because if he decided to stop updating it , or stop sharing it or like now it stops working with a firmware version I need to update to.. or what if like now , it's not working with 3.4.1 and newkirk has to use the ePMP interface on his phone and he is on a roof and it's really making him mad because he's always had his cool app and now he is experiencing the full frustration of the epmp interface with the floaty menu from hell... he's not use to this kind of frustration, he's not prepared for this kind of pain, and he gets so angry he rips the dish off the house and as he throws it off the roof and the cat5 wraps around his legs and... well it doesn't end well and we don't have newkirk to keep his awesome app updated anymore. Now my installers have to be retrained and go back to the ePMP interface but now they're soft, they aren't hardened ePMP interface users, they are addicted to newkirks app. In no time customers are calling about installers going on rampages, leaping off roofs and cursing at the sky asking "WHY ? WHY DID YOU TAKE NEKIRK !?"...
I think that unless a permanent cure can be found for the ePMP interface it's best the installers just build up a resistance to it and learn to deal with it.
The cambium app is Apple only last I knew and we use Android, Samsung mostly.