Anyone using Bitfocus Buttons on productions since the 1.8 update? I've been having so much issues with it, it crashed for me in a show I ran yesterday.
ASKED BY · Jackson Shafir · TAMIL NADU, INDIA · 19 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:39:59
Recommend checking video drivers, OS versions, BIOS, Windows updates, and third-party antivirus software as common causes of crashes.
Bitfocus Buttons is industry-standard and well-funded; stability issues likely come from machine problems, network errors, or driver incompatibilities; suggests checking task manager and logs.
Questioned whether Bitfocus Buttons offers a Kubernetes image and noted the extensive ecosystem of compatible vendors.
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39:58for me in a show I ran yesterday oh guy what you got I'd have to say that and I hate to say it might it might be user error because this they've got so much money now in the bit focus buttons uh it's insane how much um they've put into the videos that if you go onto their youtube channel and see who's using it i mean it's a who who's who of the industry so $700 stream deck like
40:27well it's not about that because i'm using it with not in a production but i'm using it for the nmos capabilities on this little app that i'm building so i've been running it in the cloud and it's been solid so i'm wondering if the machine that he's running it on is uh a clean machine because it could also be a network switch error like that could do it yeah and this brings up
40:45something that we learned about um last week so we use an encoder from a company called videon and videon now has the ability to put a docker uh contain it has containerized apps that you could run and so you could run something like bit focus buttons on a solid piece of hardware where it's just doing its thing it doesn't have windows updates or any weird things to you know knock
41:11it offline so something to take a look at is uh you know what else is running on that machine look at your task manager look at the logs and see what's going on because again go look at their the latest updates uh on their youtube channel and see who who they had interviewed at ibc it is a who's who of the industry and they have big money now corsair like they're no joke it is this isn't some
41:33little thing anymore. It's big time. Well, and check your firewall too. Check your firewall, check your Windows security settings. If you have any third-party antivirus, I hope you don't, but yeah, that's one place to look. Courtney? Yeah. If it crashed the computer, I'd worry about your video drivers. So check frequently, this is the case in both Windows and Mac, is make sure you got the latest version
42:03of the operating system, the latest version of the drivers, because sometimes things that will hang the computer or hang, you know, if you're running buttons inside a computer, a lot of times it's some quirky incompatibility with the current version of video drivers that you're using. That's a really good point. Check your BIOS. Like everything is failing right now. Like Windows updates have never,
42:26ever been more important. Mr. Wallace, bring us home. Yeah, I was just surprised. I didn't know that the focus buttons provided a Kubernetes image. Is that something that's new with this release? Guy? I didn't know either, but I did find that page that I was talking about. So we got Brompton, we got Telestream, AnalogWay, Panasonic. We've got Audinate, Amazon, ClearCom, Tag, Sony, Mark Roberts, Utah Scientific,
42:59Tific, Densitron, Luminex, Panasonic, Bolin, Sennheiser. I mean, it's a pretty who's who of the industry. So I would say check your machine. That's awesome. Yeah, that's great. Let's go on to the next question. Coming in from down in Austin, Texas, Paul Valhus says, what do you want to learn on the AI water coolers next meetup and long-term on how are your AI projects coming along?
43:31I'll report from the field. So the one thing I like to see now, I personally don't vibe code myself, but the one thing, but there are people out there who love doing it, is something like Aftershoot. So I spoke about this a little bit earlier. So Aftershoot is essentially, it's a photo app that you throw your photos in and it just analyzes your photos.
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