Hi!
Has anyone tried to use the V2 triggers with a different interface, other than the dedicated portal? Guess i could try with my focusrite but i don’t want to blow anything up. Maybe somebody already has… 
For instance, my friend has a Teenage Engineering TX-6, which had some very nice tricks in its sleeve and also has like 6 stereo mini 3,5 jacks or smth as inputs and acts as an audio interface also and it got me wondering.
thanks…
hey @papapuuben welcome!
The V2 sensors are actually powered by the Portal, so they won’t be compatible with other interfaces. With the v1 sensors, we relied on XLR and 48-v phantom power for the sensors. This made it universally compatible with other systems, but came with a lot of downsides, too. We would not have been able to get as many inputs into the portal with XLR, so we went with the smaller cable and moving away from phantom power let us shrink the size of the sensor. The tradeoff is that you can’t really use the v2 sensors with another interface.
We have considered enabling a “pass thru” mode on the portal, that would let you use it without a computer to just pass the signal from the inputs through to the outputs on the back to use with other systems. But this is not something we’re actively working on – unless we see there’s a strong desire in the community for it.
Curious what you’d like to try to do connecting it with other interfaces?
Hey,
Thanks, i guessed it still requires power to run the triggers (v2) but my initial intrest came from my sound engineer, cause with the first generation we could just plug the triggers to the stagebox and my computer with a cat cable and we had our Waves system run the whole thing, enabling my soundengineer to finetune the whole information during live also. since i got the v2 and i totally agree they are superior to the first itineration i thought maybe i could bring them into our system the same way.
I still have other options but it kept the stage clean and easier for stage technicians to understand also, because they thought they were some primitive triggers but oh, how their eyes popped when they heard whats it all about 
Also gateing drum mics with the v1 triggers worked well that way and allowed for easier data tranfer from the sound desk to the light engineer. but that we worked around the other way, using dmxis…