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#21

Repertoire Help / Any alternative to Bluetooth?

Last post by ksipp01 - February 25, 2026, 07:17:35 AM

I have been successfully controlling AutoScroll start/stop and manual scroll with a homemade footswitch using Arduino ESP-32 via keyboard commands over Bluetooth. It works great except there are some locations that I cannot for the life of me get Bluetooth to connect to my iPad.  It's seem like location dependent interface? Possibly other BT devices??  I'm pretty dependent on this so for a gig this is no good when it happens.   

Is there any alternative to BT such as direct control via TCP? 

Thanks in advance!

#22

Repertoire Help / Re: Help to scroll to next son...

Last post by arlo - February 24, 2026, 10:01:33 PM

You don't need markers to use the "Page/Marker" actions. If you don't have markers, they will scroll by page.

#23

Repertoire Help / Re: Help to scroll to next son...

Last post by Borske - February 24, 2026, 04:30:16 PM

Thank you. I must have had markers set in my old setlists but dont remember setting them.

#24

Repertoire Help / Re: Help to scroll to next son...

Last post by arlo - February 24, 2026, 04:17:16 PM

You can't use the Scroll Document Down and Scroll Document Up actions AND change songs with the same foot switch button. You can use the Next Page/Marker Or Song and Previous Page/Marker Or Song actions instead.

More info is here:

https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/app_control.html#bluetooth

#25

Repertoire Help / Help to scroll to next song.

Last post by Borske - February 24, 2026, 03:38:17 PM

I had to change tablets and for the life of me I cannot remember how to get my bluetooth pedal to change to the next song in my setlist once we are the end of a song. I have my pedal set to scroll 40% when I click the button so I can scroll through the song as we play and then once I am at the end of the song I would like to be able to change to the next song via a button press. This is how I was setup on my old tablet but I cannot seem to get that feature on this tablet.
What I am trying to accomplish: Right pedal scrolls down through the song and change to next song. Left pedal scrolls up through a song and then to previous song.

#26

Repertoire Help / Re: Synching iPads

Last post by arlo - February 24, 2026, 12:03:12 PM

Actually I might see the problem in your video. In the third song example, I can see that the line wrapping is a little different on the following device. Is one of the users using personal font sizes? That would throw off the scroll positions. Sharing scroll positions between different screen sizes and layouts is supported, but sharing scroll positions with different personal font sizes isn't supported.

Fortunately, the font sizes in this case are nearly the same, so if you removed the personal font size and both used the shared font size, I think you would hardly notice a difference.

#27

Repertoire Help / Re: Synching iPads

Last post by arlo - February 23, 2026, 12:29:34 PM

Please submit a help ticket, then submit the troubleshooting info from the two devices shown in your video.

#28

Repertoire Help / Re: Hightlight Lyrics Time In ...

Last post by arlo - February 23, 2026, 09:14:21 AM

Adding timestamps to lyrics for auto-scroll or line highlighting is on my wish list and I'll add a vote for you. One difficulty is that since automation tracks already do the same thing in a different way, I'd need to figure out how to integrate a different approach with what already exists. Similarly, it's standard to delineate timestamps with square brackets, but BandHelper already uses square brackets for chord positioning.

Meanwhile, highlighting just a section heading or the first line of a section would be a lot simpler than highlighting every line, and probably sufficient for anyone who knows the song reasonably well.

#29

Repertoire Help / Hightlight Lyrics Time In Lyri...

Last post by Dustin - February 22, 2026, 08:50:43 PM

Ok I just go back playing with this app. I know you start automation and then long hold to highlight. But I swear sometimes it doesn't trigger or it skips a line and then it gets all messed up.

Is there anyway to just pull up the lyrics and timestamp the spots? I know I can manually hit + and add or delete, but it doesn't show me where that is in the song just says line and a time. I see it in the browser but it doesn't show me where that line actually is. I mean I guess I could count each down arrow. 

But is there a faster way to see the position?

#30

Repertoire Help / Re: Synching iPads

Last post by ElleMrLA - February 21, 2026, 12:03:02 PM

Sooo, today we finally had a rehearsal again.

I recorded the behavior of both iPads.

Versions:
My iPad (the master)
OS version 26.2
App version 2026-02-19 (210)
Window size 1366x1024

The other iPad:
OS version 26.2.1
App version 2026-02-19 (210)
Window size 1180x820