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Needing to upgrade the firmware of both the Comfort and KP06 (see other thread) I finally got around to connecting the PC to Comfort (or as the case turned out...I tried
)Looking at the instructions there are three ways to connect..
1) PC to Hub with Comfort to Hub (all straight thru CAT5)
2) PC to Comfort (straight thru CAT5)
3) PC to Comfort (x-over CAT5)
Assumption was that the Comfort (like a PC) would pick up a DHCP lease once connected, however the instructions mentioned that Comfort was preconfigured with an IP in the range of 10.0.0.51-10.0.0.60.
This was a pain as my Home Hub runs the 192.168.x.x range.
Scenario 1
Loading up ComFigurator, the instructions stated to set an IP (in the range of your choice) under Settings -> UCM Connection and then via DS manager, let the PC 'Discover' the IP address of Comfort.
It's this last bit I have trouble understanding as DS Manager is running on a PC (that already has an IP address from my Hub) and it fails, stating no connection to UCM
Scenario 2
Now I set my PC with an IP in the 10.0.0.x range, in the hope DS manager will see Comfort with it's pre-defined IP (10.0.0.51-60)
This also fails and it cannot discover the UCM
Scenario 3
This will be tried later as my x-over cable is at work.
All the LEDs look good and the Green RDY light is on. The RED LED on the ETH2 module is on and blinks occasionally and the RED & Green LEDS for comms back to the Comfort CPU are blinking furiously
Soooo I guess I am missing something here, and doing something wrong. The instructions are a little mis-leading as what IP address Comfort has and how to set it up.
The problem is in order to go through the usual check and potential firmware upgrade I need the UCM/Eth2 to get an IP and I do not have the serial interface...
So my questions are....
1) Do I use a straight thru or x-over CAT5 cable?
2) Do I plug Comfort into my Hub and will it get a DHCP lease? If not, how do I change it's pre-defined IP when DS Manager cannot see it..?
3)Do I plug Comfort into my PC and set a local IP range?? If so what settings do I use?
4) Have I missed a guide on the forums as to how to connect to Comfort for the first time?
Regards,
Vangelis
Last edited on Monday Aug 19th, 2013 08:29 am by Vangelis
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