Chessnut Air overrated?

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Avatar of samsonite312

I just got mine today, and I'm really underwhelmed by it. It's been challenging maintaining a connection (Pixel 6 + Chess.com). If your phone's screen turns off, the connection usually fails too, and won't recover, and I have to quit the mobile app, totally turn off Bluetooth on the phone and turn it back on, then load the Chessnut app and reconnect.

Also, when I try to set up the pieces for a Chess.com game in progress and then open it in the Chessnut app, even though I have a green chessboard icon (showing the board is sync'd), it's not really sync'd and so moves aren't registering.

I decided to try the Chessnut app on my MacBook Air, and at least this time I see a more detailed error:

Is it not possible to play Daily games with Chessnut? I did make a couple of moves earlier and it worked fine, but now it's not.

I don't get the hype. This thing is super buggy and not ready for prime time.

Avatar of Graham_NZ

You could set your phone to stop turning off BT when it goes into power saving mode (I.e. when the screen turns off), although the Pixel 6 has reports of shutting things like wifi and cellular off when the screen turns off so it might not help.

But why do you want to use a (battery powered) phone attached to a (battery powered) eBoard to play a Daily game, where you might only make one move per day?

Avatar of samsonite312
Graham_NZ wrote:

But why do you want to use a (battery powered) phone attached to a (battery powered) eBoard to play a Daily game, where you might only make one move per day?

 

That won't be the only way I use it. happy.png

Avatar of 9qc

It has really fast piece recognition which is why I like the board but their app just sucks. It often crashes and sometimes send the wrong move but I usually play on another website with the board.

Avatar of samsonite312
uwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuoo wrote:

It has really fast piece recognition which is why I like the board but their app just sucks. It often crashes and sometimes send the wrong move but I usually play on another website with the board.

 

Does that other website happen to rhyme with "knee chest"? 😆

Avatar of DerDude91

I think is Not overrated because there is No affordable eboard without bugs. Chessnut is for my opinion the best looking Board in this pricerange. I stopped using the chessnut App because White pawn is much better, i Had No Connections issues until now.

Avatar of Dleli

I just received mine. I’m on iOs and I’m unable to play on chess.com. Same error message as above, the network icon top right does not turn green and stays orange all the time. I play 15/10 so the game mode should be supported.

Avatar of Dleli

I play with no issues in Lichess, it’s a chess.com specific problem 

Avatar of Dleli
I may have solved the problem on my own. On the latest version of iOS app, the only one I had, the chessboard connection icon works differently in lichess and in chess.com

In lichess it turns green the moment you activate the bt connection, while in chess.com it does it after an opponent in found.

Problem should be solved now, then the board is not being sent back (yet!)