After waiting so long for a response, it's truly disappointing that he did not make one single suggestion of the form, "click this box," or "set this setting," or "make this look like that," etc. If there's a concrete suggestion anywhere in that very long response, then clearly I'm too inexperienced to comprehend it, and I beg for mercy as an inexperienced user. Taking the points separately, here's what I understand:
paragraph 1) Don't downgrade. OK, I understand--and I've never tried downgrading.
paragraph 4) He verifies my startup time is normal. OK, we're finished with that.
paragraph 5) WiFi latency: am I correct that he only basically says "it works great for us"? If that's in fact all he's said, why wouldn't he expect such a response to make an owner of one of these boxes who's been waiting so long to use it very angry? I know it works for other people, but the problem is that mine has never worked. Given that there's nothing at all unusual about my location, why is there not a single diagnostic or suggestion to verify whether or not this particular box is defective? Once again, I verified that upon startup there's no latency, then latency builds up after about 20 MIDI notes. The latency itself isn't even consistent, sometimes notes bunch up, then burst through all at once. Is this behavior symptomatic of my environment, which doesn't differ from an ordinary apartment in any way I've experienced or can imagine?
I can at least work around a defective WiFi or defective apartment--whichever it may be-- if we could just do something about what's in paragraph's 2 and 3, but I simply can't deduce anything to try from the sense I'm able to make of what he's written.
paragraph 2) When he says ".Another aspect is that your project file does not define the BomeBox DIN port directly..." is he saying that's a problem, a potential problem, a routine configuration choice, or what? I have no idea what his intention is here or what he suggests I do to make things more in line with how he designed this box to work. I simply don't understand what to do here or what to change. Let's just proceed as if I don't have the first idea of how the MIDI output, input, and router sections work. If you guys could just say "click this," "verify this looks like that," provide a screenshot, and things like that, then maybe we can make some kind of troubleshooting progress. In the MIDI Output and Input areas, there is no choice that reads "BomeBox DIN Port" as Florian refers to, so I'm completely at a loss as to what he apparently recommends to choose. Perhaps say directly and step-by-step what I should do? I do know that once I unclick something in input or output to test things, then all activity ceases in the event monitor. Then, when I re-click the boxes to make them as they originally appeared, there's still nothing in the event monitor. I have to disconnect from BomeNet, then re-connect to get things working again. Since this behavior strikes me as making no sense at all, I think you will have to hold my hand through these settings and be very literal in your instructions.
paragraph 3) He says, "BomeBox logs exactly the parameter of these settings file," which is a remarkably opaque English sentence to me, and English is my native language. OK, it saves settings, but then there's a reference to a file named ":/etc/mt/playerheadless.bmts ." I have no idea what that file is, what its function is, where it comes from, how to look at its contents, and its filename doesn't match my config file. By the way, I only ever have one config file loaded on my BomeBox so that I can eliminate the possibility of that kind of mixup. The relationship of this file named playerheadless.bmts and my .bmtp file is a complete technical mystery to me. I beg of you, treat me like a user--perhaps a power user--but not a software engineer who knows the function of files located in /etc/mt of a Unix system.
I might have thought you guys would make a change or two to my .bmtp file, then send that to me to try. Then I'd report back. Then you'd tweak again, etc. At this point, I think it would be best if you treated me like a non-technical person who's good only at executing literally what you say to do in manageable increments because it's clear that I'm unable to understand the workings of this device sufficiently to troubleshoot it.
Perhaps you could start out with a concrete series of steps I can take to make my MIDI OUTPUT and MIDI INPUT sections look the way Florian seemingly expected them to look? Or is there some diagnostic to run to make sure this particular box isn't defective?