RESOLVED: Issues adding a Baldrick

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RolyT

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Hi,



I am having trouble setting up additional Baldrick 8s and hoping for some assistance from the brains trust.

Xmas 2024 I had a single Baldrick and set it up as per the set up video by Greg Macaree and worked perfectly. I was running ‘old school’/simple and had a cable directly from an ethernet port on my modem/router to the Baldrick and was running X-schedule off a spare laptop.

Today I have tried to set up a new Baldrick but am having some issues.

I am now running a cable from the modem/router to port 1 of this switch and then cables out to the Baldricks (port 2 and 3 of switch).

I turned everything on and network found the new Baldrick and went through the set up. I then realised the cable wasn’t fully in the Rj45 port of the old Baldrick so rectified that but still wasn’t being discovered on the Turnip network.

I am thinking that the new one has taken over the name and ip address of the old one but I am not sure how to confirm this. I am totally changing my set up on each controller this year so was thinking I could factory reset them both and start again?

Or should I just set up each one individually and set name/ip and then move onto the next one etc? I think I need t change to static ip address as well once it is set up?

Would the network switch be causing an issue by any chance or how do I know this is working as it should be?

Ideas about how to troubleshoot from here?



Many thanks

Ryan
 
I have trouble with networks to so take this advice with a grain of salt
I would set up one at time and give it a static ip address and confirm it works before moving on to the next one and if you still have problems swap the port over on the switch to see if the problems follows or not so you can rule out the switch
 
By default the Baldrick 8 uses DHCP, and gets an IP address from your internet router (for most people's home networks). It's *possible* that the second Baldrick was given the same IP as the first if the first has been off the network, but still powered up. The first may still be hanging on to its IP, even though the router has re-assigned that IP by now.

I would turn them both off, wait a bit, then turn them back on one by one. Each should be given a new IP by your router, and you can start from there.

In the long term, my personal preference is to use static IPs. A couple of options... you can assign IP's on your router (ie you map the MAC address of the Baldrick to a specific IP in the DHCP range), or you assign it statically in the network settings on the Baldrick 8 itself (but make sure you assign an IP that is NOT in the DHCP range of your router).
 
Connecting 1 at a time until a static IP is assigned is the way to go. When assigning a static IP I always try to use an IP outside of what the DHCP range is on the router. In my case the DHCP addresses are from 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.100. This means that if you set the IP to an unused IP in the range above that (in this case 192.168.0.101-192.168.0.255) another device won't get assigned the IP.

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AAH said:
Connecting 1 at a time until a static IP is assigned is the way to go. When assigning a static IP I always try to use an IP outside of what the DHCP range is on the router. In my case the DHCP addresses are from 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.100. This means that if you set the IP to an unused IP in the range above that (in this case 192.168.0.101-192.168.0.255) another device won't get assigned the IP.

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Will I have a problem setting up that first one that's IP/name may have bene taken over by the 2nd one?
 
Plug one into the network at a time. Set an IP address and a unique name. Disconnect it, do the same for the next and the next. Once they are all uniquely addressed and named, then plug them back in together.
 
When you have both Baldricks plugged in, take a look at the Turnip network, they should find each other, if you are having issues gimme a ping and I can jump on zoom to give you a hand
 
thanks all.
domhodgson said:
When you have both Baldricks plugged in, take a look at the Turnip network, they should find each other, if you are having issues gimme a ping and I can jump on zoom to give you a hand
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Thanks @domhodgson . yeah I did try that and kept saying no nearby Baldricks were found. I just tried plugging in Baldrick 1 and it wasn't found either so I think it must be because the iP address for it has been reassigned to number 2... is this possible?
 
Hmmm that would be very strange, might be best to do a B3 reset of both, let them reset to the DHCP settings and then use xScanner or IPscanner to find them both
 
I plugged mine in one at a time and filled in the hostname before plugging in the next one, so I can tell them apart easily. So this one is "baldrickboard1.local", the next is "baldrickboard2.local", etc...

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I am not sure what happens if you leave it as "baldrickboard" in all of them, whether that depends on the router, etc...
 
merryoncherry said:
I am not sure what happens if you leave it as "baldrickboard" in all of them, whether that depends on the router, etc...
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Multicast DNS would get crazy confused - the PC would send out the request and get 3 different replies for different IPs. Router should be irrelevant as it doesn't go to it for singlehost.local addresses.
The PC would pick one, start talking to it, then pick another, talk to that, and different operations could be going all over the shop.
 
Was thinking more along the lines of DHCP Option 12.

The other thought I had is that OP said "modem/router"... I've encountered one of those with a device cap of 4 on it... they want paid more if you have more devices or something.

Anyway, static on separate network is best for the real show, but I've been playing around with a couple devices on my home network that are doing DHCP, and no issues.
 
I dunno what is going on now. Tried to reset* but still couldn't get #1 or #2 to work. Decided to try #3 which was found immediately and given an IP address. I changed the name to baldrickboard3 and static ip address (103) inside my DHCP range then tried to run the update that was available and now board cant be found again...

*is reset just holding down/pushing B3 for 5 secs while turning power on as this doesn't seem to do anything. Should the power light go off when I do this?

@merryoncherry sorry I am not techie and usually just call it a modem. When checking my modem/router status on the web it says I am connected to a "wifi modem" but when I bookmark that page it is called "dsl router". Given I am having this issue when trying to set up a single device, I dont think the device limit is an issue right now (maybe when i add back the switch).

Thanks for all the help so far
 
Hi all,

Note sure what I did to resolve it but I reset each board, then set up each individually, then set all up on switch and VOILA they were all found and linked in turnip network.. 👍🤷‍♂️🙏

thanks for all the help and offers of more.
 
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