Struggling to set up an Ableton-Resolume network - urgent

[insch]

Can you share all the details of the network setup for the two machines including WIFI?

What's the most efficient way to do that? Screen grabs?

Thanks

[insch]

Here are screen grabs from the laptop (slave) that won't connect to the internet using the wired connection. The second laptop (master) has a similar setup for the Ethernet side of things (it's 5 year old and has an Ethernet socket so doesn't need a Thunderbolt adapter) but it's IP address ends in a 2 rather than 3 i.e IPV4 address IS 192.168.10.2 on the master and 192.168.10.3 on the slave. Subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 on both. Wifi works for internet, wired doesn't. but I don't want to screw up the master-slave network for Ableton-Resolume. That's working well.

[Oaktown]

Essentially you have two completely different networks (192.168.1.x/24 and 192.168.10.x/24 where /24 expresses a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0), correct? Is your wired network (192.168.10.X /24) connected to the internet?

My recommendation would still be the same: Instead of connecting your two computers (master & slave) directly to one another....

Why don't you introduce a small five port unmanaged 1G switch, Connect both computers and the router to the switch, then you assign static (reserved) IP addresses to both your computers in the router software using their MAC address?

and turn WIFI off on both computers.

To keep your IP settings in your master/slave computer, all you'd have to do is after you connect the wifi router to the 1G switch and give it a 192.168.10.1/24 manual address.

Does that make sense.

[insch]

Essentially you have two completely different networks (192.168.1.x/24 and 192.168.10.x/24 where /24 expresses a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0), correct? Is your wired network (192.168.10.X /24) connected to the internet?

My recommendation would still be the same: Instead of connecting your two computers (master & slave) directly to one another....

Why don't you introduce a small five port unmanaged 1G switch, Connect both computers and the router to the switch, then you assign static (reserved) IP addresses to both your computers in the router software using their MAC address?

and turn WIFI off on both computers.

To keep your IP settings in your master/slave computer, all you'd have to do is after you connect the wifi router to the 1G switch and give it a 192.168.10.1/24 manual address.

Does that make sense.

I think I get it. I can't connect to the internet via wired connection on this machine because my router is essentially on a different network (192.168.1.x rather than 192.168.10.x). Is that right? The only time I connect my two computers directly together is gigging. The rest of the time I only use one of those laptops - the slave. it is the newer of the two and it runs Resolume live. Since I set up the direct network between the two machines I have lost the ability of connecting to the internet using the wired connection on my slave. It used to work.

Are you siggesting that I introduce a switch just for my setup in my studio where I need access to the router and internet? Live I don't really want to use a switch since it's a straight computer to computer setup - nothing else.

[Oaktown]

I don't really want to use a switch since it's a straight computer to computer setup - nothing else.

Why?

[insch]

I don't really want to use a switch since it's a straight computer to computer setup - nothing else.

Why?

Does it not put another link in the chain - more potential for something to go wrong?

[Oaktown]

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It all depends on your firewall settings so not necessarily!

Also, especially on a mac, it'd be much easier than dealing with multiple concurrent adapters (wired & wireless).

[Oaktown]

If all you need to do is get on the internet, you could always use the following setting:

[insch]

Thanks - helpful

I'll have a look in the morning

[insch]

I have just bought a new MacBook Pro and I'm now revisiting the whole network issue. Since the new machine just has Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports I'm checking out adapters, so far with limited success. I hope to have my Ethernet network back up and running via two Ethernet-Thunderbolt adapters (witing for one to be delivered) but I'm also exploring alternatives such as wireless networking (which I'm not mega keen about) and Thunderbolt bridge (which is length limited compared to Ethernet). It's always good to have other options in case a part of my chain fails.

I've set up a wireless network between my two laptops (showing in Airport menu) but not quite sure how to utliise that within Ableton and Resolume. I've also been trying to set up a Thunderbolt bridge but it's currently not being recognised. I'm a bit out of my depth.

Also OSC?

Any wisdom that anyone can share with me would be great!

Thank you