everettdale
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TLDR What's a cheap router with Ethernet IP addressing and manual static IP assignment's? less than $50US new.
lI have to admit i'm struggling with something that i used to work with on a daily basis. Networking.
Anyway, what I'm trying to do it this. I have a raspberry PI with FPP installed. The Wi-Fi network is working perfectly. I believe the Ethernet network is also work as expected. I also have an ESP32-eth01 with the latest install ow WLED on it. Again No problem with the Wi-Fi network, and I think I've set the ethernet properly. I followed what I think are the correct steps in Xlights to configure the Wled as a pixel controller, and when its hooked up to my computer I can run a test sequence on it and it looks right.
Where I'm struggling is getting the Pi to talk to the esp32 without a router in between them. I've watched all the videos I can find on the subject and just can't get it to work. I'm pretty sure it's to do with the fact that I can't get the Wled software to set a static IP and that the Pi just isn't finding it. and once I've Isolated everything I can't dig into it via Wi-Fi anymore.
So. I'm looking for an inexpensive router that I can add to this setup to handle all the IP addressing. Adding the router was going to happen anyway eventually so I could expand the show to more than one controller, but I really wanted to get it working without one.
My question is What's a good cheap router <$50US new, that will work? I bought a D-link N-300. It wont let me access the ethernet side of things which is nuts. I can't set static IP addresses or even see devices connected to it via ethernet. This actually boggled my mind. There is literally no menu for it. Now I'm feeling gun shy. I don't want to keep buying routers only to find out that the manufactures have given up on Ethernet and Just don't Have the menus anymore.
lI have to admit i'm struggling with something that i used to work with on a daily basis. Networking.
Anyway, what I'm trying to do it this. I have a raspberry PI with FPP installed. The Wi-Fi network is working perfectly. I believe the Ethernet network is also work as expected. I also have an ESP32-eth01 with the latest install ow WLED on it. Again No problem with the Wi-Fi network, and I think I've set the ethernet properly. I followed what I think are the correct steps in Xlights to configure the Wled as a pixel controller, and when its hooked up to my computer I can run a test sequence on it and it looks right.
Where I'm struggling is getting the Pi to talk to the esp32 without a router in between them. I've watched all the videos I can find on the subject and just can't get it to work. I'm pretty sure it's to do with the fact that I can't get the Wled software to set a static IP and that the Pi just isn't finding it. and once I've Isolated everything I can't dig into it via Wi-Fi anymore.
So. I'm looking for an inexpensive router that I can add to this setup to handle all the IP addressing. Adding the router was going to happen anyway eventually so I could expand the show to more than one controller, but I really wanted to get it working without one.
My question is What's a good cheap router <$50US new, that will work? I bought a D-link N-300. It wont let me access the ethernet side of things which is nuts. I can't set static IP addresses or even see devices connected to it via ethernet. This actually boggled my mind. There is literally no menu for it. Now I'm feeling gun shy. I don't want to keep buying routers only to find out that the manufactures have given up on Ethernet and Just don't Have the menus anymore.
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