Hey,
I'm having similar problems.
Finally, I updated my AxeFX 2 to FW 19.00 yesterday.
My laptop is almost new and has never seen any fractal drivers and software before. Well, it's running on Win10; this might be a problem?
AxeEdit connects with my AxeFX but after a while it says communication error. Sometimes it reconnects after a few minutes doing nothing, but most times it stays "frozen". Restarting AxeEdit solves the problem. But doing that every 5 minutes is a bit annoying. Running fractalBot or not doesn't make any difference.
Do you have any ideas?
Thanks!