DMXcat® appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for DMXcat® is 73 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

DMXcat® User Reviews

Name: DMXcat®
Rating: 3.9 (25 reviews)

DMXcat®

City Theatrical, Inc

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🎬 Entertainment

Customer Experience

Positive experience68.4% of reviews

Neutral5.3% of reviews

Negative experience26.3% of reviews

~ Based on 19 written reviews from the US App Store.

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DMXcat® appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for DMXcat® is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

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So usefull

If I had bought 10 pieces when i bought mine, certainly had sold all of them. I love it
One small thing could be very usefull, to test the reaction of certain fixtures, is to have the possibility to had a fading time to a preset. Sometimes we need to have that to test the quality of dimming of some fixtures.
Thanks

Oliv275

2 years ago

Very useful

The app and dongle are very useful.

My only issue is, could the app have an option to prevent my device from ‘sleeping’. It would be really handy when I’m focussing or using the dipstwitch calculator to address fixtures if my device would stay awake via the app.

TractorBiscuit

3 years ago

Nice tool, but problem with creating fixtures

Everything is fine with existing fixtures, but there’s a problem with creating / editing fixture personalities. When setting channel range presets and hitting the save-button, a popup answers with „valid“, but the values will not be saved into the channel. Same issue when I try to edit an existing fixture preset from the database. Creating simple channels without value presets works fine.
My setup is iPhone 12mini @ios16.1.1, APP ver. 1.5.2.9.0.315, FW 1.5.0.9.0.14, (German)
Five stars without that issue, but as long as I can’t build custom fixtures properly, only three.

Arne_Ahoi

4 years ago

Efficace à un détail près

Très content de cette appli. Cumuler avec son boîtier RDM permet de modifier les adresses des projecteurs individuellement. Ce qui lui enlève une étoile. Manque la possibilité d’adresse une suite de fixtures en une seul fois. Une version arnet sacn serai le bien venu

aleskpid

4 years ago

Perfect tool with sume bugs

I love the dmx cat, it's small and easy to use. The only thing what I'm missing is to test more than one lamp. I want choose my lamp the quantity and the start address. Also a function where you can patch the lamps by rdm like the swisson. Search for your first lamp, update the address and search for the next lamps just by identify and ok

That would be nice

Pyrogras

4 years ago

Amazing and helpful, but…

This version, every time I use the RDM controller crashes immediately. I’m on 15.0.1 and the latest version of DMXCat, but unfortunately I went for this to change some RDM settings and couldn’t even see them much less change them. The list of the RDM devices showed up, and when you click on it, it crashes out.

That being said, this app and device is a super little time saver most of the time. It can be everything from an RDM controller, to a simple DMX controller, to a moving light/multipart fixture controller, AND do it well - all from my phone.

AVGuy1980

5 years ago

The handiest tool

5 stars all around. It’s comes in handy every show

Dubyaaa69

5 years ago

Make it work consistently!

Seems like after every update something starts working that didn’t before, and something stops working that did. When I first purchased it, receive DMX wasn’t working, and now it’s not sending DMX. Basic DMX testing should be a basic and bullet-proof function. Turning out not to be a reliable tool.

jeffitz

6 years ago

Suddenly Español

This app is suddenly in Spanish. Luckily I know a bit.

This device is intended for the pro world but they can’t seem for the life of them to make it reliable. I have to fight off forced firmware updates and learn a new language while the gaffer is waiting on me to simply dim a light.

Harry69_420

6 years ago

Response from developer

Harry, So sorry for the trouble. We did release a bad version that affected the language displayed. Build 581 should be approved shortly. For those who are still waiting, you can fix by: Going to phone settings, General, language & region and delete any secondary languages. A lot of the firmware changes fix various DMX/RDM output issues. Using the back arrow will bypass the dongle update. Thank you for the bug reports you have submitted. Each report helps us identify and resolve bugs. We have submitted an app update to resolve the character bug which will be released as soon as it is approved by the App Store.

Great tool

This is a great tool that has saved my butt on numerous occasions.

I would love to see a feature to capture a preset from the incoming DMX stream in the future.

Markandnancy

7 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Markandnancy, thank you for the positive review. You can save a preset from incoming DMX in the view levels screen using the 3-dot menu in the upper right. That preset is then available in the DMX Controller. Please reach out any time with any additional suggestions or questions. --David

Don’t update

This latest update has broken presets. I now get “nan” in the level display instead of a percentage when recalling a preset. Also saving a preset doesn’t work, nothing happens.

Lucidlight

7 years ago

A great tool

This little thing works wonderfully!

The only thing it needs is a way to create sequences. This would be incredibly helpful for testing, light shootouts and mockups.

Sukka3

7 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Sukka3, Thank you for the kind words. Sequence playback is on our feature wish list. I will share your request with the software team. Please reach out any time. -David

Nice Tool I like to work with but with room for improvement

When working with the dmxcat I noticed some things that I miss and I would wish for:

- to I have the possibility to do a fixture-test with several fixtures, for example to test an entire truss at once.
- to have a next/prev button in the DMX-controller-app for faster checking device by device
- intuitively I tap on the channels in the DMX-adress-section-overview instead of typing e.g. 1+4+6+9 enter…. but its not working, may be you can install that.
- I miss one function from my Swisson-DMX-Tester: the „every third, or every 4th“ function, that is very helpful when testing LED-Pars with just a few DMX-channels.

Maybe there is a possibility for these things to install in later updates.

akhuber

7 years ago

Looking forward to see how it grows!

Update: opened app today to be greater by an update that seems to have broken the entire app. It’s now stuck in an endless loop of updating rebooting the unit and then updating all over again. Please fix!!!!!

Great app, so easy to just have in my pelican ready to go. I’m wondering with the new ambient light sensors and camera changes in the new iPhone Xs, will iPhone users be seeing the light meter feature anytime soon?

Wubbles121

8 years ago

Response from developer

I am sorry for the trouble. Please force close the app and turn off the DMXcat. Then turn the DMXcat back on. If the light comes on steady green (instead of flashing) then the flashlight button on the side of the dongle is probably stuck. This causes the unit to boot into bootloader mode. We are working on discovering the physical cause and fixing the issue. If this does not work please send me an email at DMXcatReport@citytheatrical.com so I can help you resolve the issue.

Could use some presets for arrays

Presets like: all even #, all odd #.
Presets for soca: 1,7,13, etc; 2,8,14,etc;...6,12,18,etc.
Being able to name your DMXcat like something personal like “My Tester” would be cool for when you have multiple DMXcats stored on your phone. (This is an issue on my show). These are just things that would be nice updates. Everything that it is now works well for the day to day testing.

Derrick7E

8 years ago

Response from developer

Derrick7E, thank you for the suggestions. I have submitted the naming request to the development team. Can you please send me an email @ appdev@citytheatrical.com so I can get more information about the soca presets request?

Awesome tool

Such an incredibly useful too. I do lighting work at a number of small theaters and it’s great to be able to plug this thing in, whip my iPhone out, and immediately start working on fixtures, etc.

Bruce P

8 years ago

Response from developer

Bruce, thank you for your review. You can use the black left and right arrows near the bottom of the keypad to cycle up and down through dimmers. We will work on improving our documentation.

Powerful Tool

This app and device are a game changer. No dragging out the old console to repair fixtures. I use this everyday at work as a bench tech.

I have only one small request... I like to use the app on my iPad because of the larger wheels and faders. Please please please let the app rotate to landscape view. I frequently use the app while my iPad is connected to a keyboard. I have gotten used to just using the app sideways, but is a bit annoying.

Norby9k

8 years ago

Response from developer

Norby9k, Thank you for the review. I have submitted your request to our software team to work on. Please reach out with any additional problems. appdev@citytheatrical.com.

Good app and tool

Overall very nice. I'd like to see next/last buttons in the fixture tool.

I'd also like to be able to optionally sort the RDM list by DMX address, too.

The fixture manual lookup is awesome.

Fghjghdhnguj

9 years ago

Response from developer

Fghjghdhnguj, we recently added sorting to the RDM screen.

Product improvement?

For DMX units. Can you create a generic auto test function which is like the in-built test functions normally found on moving lights? So instead of using the individual faders, you can press an auto button that will create a test sequence based upon the library information?

Robert | Evolve