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Hi Tom,

What networking protocols have you enabled in the Ion software?

Hi Lars, Ive tried so many permeatations that I'm now utterly confused so i have reset everything and i am starting again. the OLE is outputting ACN (using draft sACN),Net2 and local DMX these are all default and output in offline mode is enabled. In the ETC wiki it seemed to imply that ACN needed a router but that other protocols may not? Anyway at present I have no router attached but my wireless card is active and connected to a network. Were do I go from here

OK I've now got 2 Macs connected vie an ethernet cable Mac 1 running lion and eos offline editor.which is set with ACN on and default ticked same for Net2 and Local DMX, Enable output in online mode is ticked as is use Draft sACN. The OLE software is running a slow chase so there is something outputting. The Mac itself has the firewall off IP 10.101.1.101 subnet 255.255.0.0 (these addresses came from the ETC web site) and the wireless network turned off. all this was set before starting the OLE. the diagnostics page in the ole shows ACN online and connected to 10.101.1.101.

Mac 2 is running snow leapard has the firewall off and the ip address 10.101.1.102 subnet 255.255.0.0. I have pinged both addresses from the opposite mac and got good results so they are defiantly connected and i have turned off the wireless network here as well so both machines have only one active network connection, and that is too each other.

Next I opened polar capture student edition on Mac 2 I waited a good 5 seconds or so then went into the connectivity tab of the tools menu all of the protocols were set to automatic so i went back out and opened a new project and went to the Universes tab and there was nothing there under the external universes.
So i went back and manually changed the ip addresses to read the network card ip address 10.101.1.102 closed the tools menu acnoliged the restart prompt went to file, exit and it did.
Then I resarted capture waited 5 seconds went to connectivity and the ip address was there so i opened a new project and went to the universe tab and still nothing.
I then repeated this proses with the demo of polar capture and nothing.

Im sorry for the essay but i wanted to give you as much info as possible. during my last attempt to get this working I did once see the ip address automatically show the network card in Capture but no external universe showed up and I now can't remember which permutation of router, no router, one Mac, 2 Macs aliases, no aliases DHCP or manual address i was trying at the time.

I'm sure I'm missing something simple but i can't see it.



Thanks, Tom

Tom,

I've been playing with the Ion offline now for a while and I can't get it to work either. I just found this on ETC's user forum, although but it didn't work for me:

http://www.etcconnect.com...835/31358.aspx#31358

(Just saw your post in their user forum - that's probably a good way of finding answers!)

Just a thought,

I Know capture can receive because i have had the console outputting to it but I don't know if the OLE is outputting anything or wether it ever has because if never had it hooked up with the client dongle just run it as a stand alone or in mirror mode.

Does the OLE need the dongle? is all output stopped without it? and any ideas, on the mac, of how to test weather there is anything coming out of the OLE?

Tom

Hi,

So for the record the case was recently closed on ETC's forums as it turns out the Mac version of the OLE doesn't support any networking output.

http://www.etcconnect.com...de-for-os-x-mac.aspx