DS Voyager Controller

Works well / better now. Any way to integrate the DS1s and possibly other DMX lights to control from the same UI?

It’s really disappointing how ineffective this app is especially at the cost of the lights. I want this to work, i want to champion for this company because the lights are incredible. But the app doesn’t connect well after a few months.

Was initially impressed by how easy it was to set up lights using their software. It was rough around the edges but it worked. After only a month I can no longer connect to either of my voyagers, even with factory resets and asking support. One of them appears to have failed a firmware update, and now the top 3rd of it is stuck on one color, or will flash or spike. No method of troubleshooting problems, and no method of contacting support within the application. Best steer clear.

UPDATE 1/5/21: I originally gave this app 1 star because it was one of the most frustrating apps to use to control this lamp. But. The recent updates have greatly improved the user experience. Easier to connect. Much more responsive and no crashes. I’m a little disappointed that it took the developers over a year to respond back to me. Maybe they can work on that too? But overall the new app makes working with these lights much more manageable. I’ll now update my testing to 3.5 stars. It’ll show only 3 though. Thanks. Back to my original review below. So after trying 10 times to connect one Voyager to another by setting one to master and hoping the others connect after I press the side WiFi button, they simply will not. Yes I’ve watched the video and no it doesn’t work even after following their video to a T. I’ve contacted DS and all I get it “Have you watched the video?” Yes! I have. And your lights and app do not work as advertised!

I would give this zero stars if I could. I can’t say enough bad things about this company, these light and this god awful app. So many of us patiently waited a year longer than their originally stated delivery date. During that time, I feel many other companies surpassed DS. They’ve not seemed to make any effort in updating their app to a version that actually works. I have the latest version on a phone that’s 3 months old and it constantly crashes, won’t connect to the lights, freezes up, you name it, does everything except work. These lights have become the laughing stock of the industry. I’ve finally had enough and will be selling (or giving away) my set.

Having a hard time figuring the app out unfortunately. I’m sure it works if you know how but the learning curve is to steep and haven’t found any tutorials that simplify either. I have 8 nice white lights I use to daily light my kitchen. Would be fun to use them on set though.

I have to go into my WiFi networks on my phone and connect to each light separately, go back into the app, set the color or effect, then go back into WiFi and connect to a different light, go back into the app, so on and so forth. This makes it impossible to set an effect across multiple lights in a row. Regretting buying 8 of these lights. Can't possibly use these on a professional set, as it would just slow my whole day down. Will you ever fix the app? Are you listening to your users? Embarrassing.

I’m trying, god I’m trying REALLY hard to like and use this app. I’ve looked for support everywhere online but every video seems to have a different version of the app and I cannot find any support for this version. I’ve tried on different devices and nothing works, this app is incredibly frustrating to use. It’s to the point that every thing digital Sputnik has shown for this light has been false advertising. I would love for them to change my mind.

Digital Sputnik, are you listening??? This app is complete crap. In theory it’s great. In practice, it just doesn’t work. I’m a working DP and this is just not acceptable for professional gear. The lights are great. Output could be better, but I bought a few for shooting car interiors where output should be fine, with the idea I’d buy more if they were good. But without a functional app, you have rendered good lights practically useless. App crashes when I try to detect lamps, it takes 2, 3, sometimes 4 attempts to make simple adjustments. Instruction and support is practically nonexistent. So you’re costing yourselves more business until you fix this app... unless you’ve decided to dead end and discontinue these lights, FIX IT PLEASE!!!

This is ridiculous, I was only able to use this light correctly once and even then the time lag for color adjustment was so long I thought something was wrong. Now I can’t even do that. App crashes every time I try to detect the lamp. Was hoping to use this for a fun upcoming shoot this week but unless I can get creative and crafty about adding some color in this white light tube, it’s useless.