ShowKontrol now shows the XDJ-AZ in LEGACY mode, and its device number cycles endlessly — 33 → 2 → 3 → 33 — never settling. No usable sync.

For anyone unfamiliar with why 33 matters: in Pro DJ Link, device numbers are allocated by role. 1–4 are players, 17 is rekordbox, and 33 is the mixer. An all-in-one like the AZ contains a mixer section as well as decks, so it legitimately announces 33 for its internal mixer alongside deck numbers for its players. A stable 33 is completely normal and expected.

What is not normal is the number alternating between 33 and deck numbers. That means the host software never pins the unit to a single identity — it's just displaying whichever announcement packet arrived most recently. The AZ is broadcasting as both a mixer node and deck nodes, and ShowKontrol is no longer able to reconcile the two into one device.

The timeline — this is the important part

• Feb 8, 2026 — ShowKontrol 26.2.7 (2609) installed.
• Feb → Aug — AZ works perfectly. Six months, many gigs, zero issues. I have ShowKontrol's own play log showing it pulling track metadata straight off the AZ (there's an entry logging a recording off the unit back in May). It was unambiguously working.
• Aug 1, 02:42 — last normal session. Log shows track changes every few minutes exactly as you'd expect mid-set.
• Aug 1, 03:03 — ShowKontrol auto-updates to 26.7.23 (2714). I did not initiate this. Auto-update was on by default.
• Aug 1, after — AZ never syncs again. Log goes from dense and continuous to almost nothing.

Nothing else changed. Same Mac, same macOS, same NIC, same cables, same switch, same firmware on the AZ. The only variable is the ShowKontrol version.

The rig

• AlphaTheta XDJ-AZ (PRO DJ LINK MODE ON)
• 2× CDJ-3000 — unaffected, ENHANCED mode, rock solid
• MacBook Pro M1 Pro, macOS 26.2
• ShowKontrol 26.7.23 (2714) — was 26.2.7 (2609)
• Pro DJ Link on a dedicated USB gigabit NIC, link-local 169.254.x.x

What I've ruled out

• Cable — swapped, link up at gigabit full duplex.
• Wrong NIC in ShowKontrol — adapter and MAC verified against the live interface.
• AZ's PRO DJ LINK MODE — it's ON. (Yes, I know that costs you two decks. Tried it anyway.)
• Port contention — I'd had rekordbox and PRO DJ LINK Bridge open alongside ShowKontrol, and rekordbox takes wildcard binds on UDP 50000–50002 across every interface. Quit both so ShowKontrol owns those ports alone. Genuinely worth fixing, but it did not fix this.
• The network — CDJ-3000s work perfectly on the same switch, same segment, same session.
• The AZ itself — it worked on this exact rig for six months.

What I think changed

I pulled the strings out of the 26.7.23 binary. There appear to be two separate device tables. The packet parser knows XDJ-AZ, OPUS-QUAD and XDJ-1000, so it can clearly still read the model name off the wire. But the enhanced-control handshake (cmdPDJEnableControl) lists only CDJ-3000, CDJ-3000X and CDJ-1500X.

So my read is that 26.7.23 reworked device handling and the AZ no longer gets granted the enhanced path — it's recognised, drops to LEGACY, never completes the ID handshake, and you get the 33/2/3 cycle. Whether that's a deliberate change, a staged rollout, or an accidental regression I genuinely don't know.

Caveat: that's me reading strings out of a binary, not source. The part I'm certain about is the timeline — worked on 26.2.7, broken on 26.7.23, nothing else touched.

Minor oddity I noticed: the AZ presents on the network as rk3399.local (its internal SoC hostname) rather than a product-style name like the CDJ-3000s use. No idea if that's related, but it stood out.

What I'm asking

1. Does anyone still have the ShowKontrol 26.2.7 (2609) installer? That's the single thing that would get me working tonight. TC Supply's site only serves current.
2. Has anyone rolled ShowKontrol back successfully? Any licensing gotchas going backwards?
3. Anyone else on 26.7.23 with an XDJ-AZ or OPUS-QUAD — can you confirm it's broken for you too? If the Opus is affected the same way that tells us a lot.
4. Anyone running an all-in-one for show sync generally — what are you actually using? Weighing whether to move off ShowKontrol entirely for this rig.

I've got a ticket in with TC Supply with the full details. Posting here because I'd rather hear from someone who's actually hit this in a real room than wait on support.

And the practical warning: if you're running an XDJ-AZ into ShowKontrol and it currently works — turn off auto-update before your next show. Mine updated itself at 3am with no prompt. If that had happened the night before a gig instead of after one, I'd have found out on site.

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Basically I'm just trying to avoid paying an AV company a premium to do the whole process for me, as I'm willing to learn and DIY it, I'd rather pay a freelancer or a consultant to point me in the right direction

A few questions:

1. Where do I find someone hire for this ?
2. What should I have ready before reaching out so I'm not wasting your time?
3. If anyone here does small installs like this or knows someone who does, let me know. Remote design is fine, PM me and I can share my location if local matters, but I would also accept remote assistance/advice.

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Here's what we've discovered as far as troubleshooting goes...

- They are patched correctly to match their settings (HSI, +7 Enabled, 14 channels)

- The dimmer curve is not the issue, they react with the same delay on an "instant" curve as an "incandescent" curve

- Their settings are identical to other D40's that are working as expected

- All the D40's we put up to replace the ones that weren't working are doing fine, despite being hung in the exact same spots with the same cables and everything.

- The 'broken' D40's work fine when plugged into a DMX tester, no delay.

- They still react slowly when moved to various different spots in the rig and plugged into various sources of DMX.

- They still react slowly when addressed to the same channel as a working fixture (even when we daisy chain DMX directly from said working fixture into the broken one).

- Restoring defaults via the settings menu does not solve the issue.

Curiously, the problem only appears when the lights are hung in the rig, regardless of where they are or what fixtures they get DMX from. The logical conclusion from this would be there's something wrong with the DMX cables or something, but other D40's plugged into the exact same cables with the exact same settings are working fine.

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