Crossover cable for cat5 connection to xcontrol?

[songboy007]

Hi all,

I'm new to both th X32 and the forum.. I'm an engineer working out of Florida, doing monitors. I'm really digging' the desk. I must admit that I'm very surprised at the quality of the build. More importantly , it sounds really good. The graphs absolutely kill the M7. The graphs in the m7 are pretty bad for the money, frankly.

With that said, I can't seem to properly hook up a simple cat5 cable to use Xcontrol. Does this require a certain type/wiring cat5 cable?

Thanks,

Songboy007

[Dick Franks]

Hi all,

I'm new to both th X32 and the forum.. I'm an engineer working out of Florida, doing monitors. I'm really digging' the desk. I must admit that I'm very surprised at the quality of the build. More importantly , it sounds really good. The graphs absolutely kill the M7. The graphs in the m7 are pretty bad for the money, frankly.

With that said, I can't seem to properly hook up a simple cat5 cable to use Xcontrol. Does this require a certain type/wiring cat5 cable?

Thanks,

Songboy007

Have you tried a wireless connection?

[songboy007]

Hi Famepot,

No. The idea would be to throw the console up, plug in a single network cable and communicate directly with my PC. My understanding is that this is possible. I might, at some point, be using my Ipad to ring monitors and this would be on a wireless router. But for now I want the ability to enter data quickly between sets, with a single wire.. Thanks for the suggestion. If I need to go wireless I will. But I'm hoping not, for now.

songboy007

[Kevin Blancard]

Hi Famepot,

No. The idea would be to throw the console up, plug in a single network cable and communicate directly with my PC. My understanding is that this is possible. I might, at some point, be using my Ipad to ring monitors and this would be on a wireless router. But for now I want the ability to enter data quickly between sets, with a single wire.. Thanks for the suggestion. If I need to go wireless I will. But I'm hoping not, for now.

songboy007

what you need to do is hook up the x32 to a "home" network and go to the settings page from the x32 tab network, give you x32 a free ip from your network for example 192.168.1.123 , next hook up your PC to the same network wireless or with cat 5 cable and make sure you don't have the same ip as the x32, open the program and give the ip adress from the x32

[Kevin Blancard]

and connect the x32 with the remote monitoring port not with the A or B port

[songboy007]

Thanks for the reply Kwantakosta,

I understand how to network the machines with a router. I have several here. The reason I ask about the direct connection is that this method is featured in a Behringer issued video about how to use Xcontrol. Is this not possible? If not, I need to buy a router small enough to fit in the dog house.

Thanks ,,
songboy007

[winedup]

Though I've never tried a direct cable connection, there is NOTHING to prevent this from working - it's just TCP/IP. You'd need to set the router to a given IP address/netmask (for example, 10.0.0.1/255.255.255.0), and set the PC to a different IP address on the same subnet (manually, NOT via DHCP, for example 10.0.0.2/255.255.255.0). Most ethernet NICs will just "figure it out" as the pinout goes, so you shouldn't require a crossover cable at all. The simplest test of whether you'd need a crossover is to just plug the cable from your PC to the X32 and check the indicator lights on the X32 - if they light up, you're in business.

If you do want to do the "router thing", here's what I use - tiny, USB-powered and functional.

Hope this helps,

Don

[songboy007]

Thanks. Don,

I have some time this evening. I'll take a look. I guess it's time for me to dive into windows 7 networking. I've never set this stuff manually.

Thanks

songboy007

[songboy007]

Grrr. I'm trading all my computing devices in for a steam driven wire recorder and a horse! {Eh hmm..} As you can see, I'm lost when it comes to this fancy computin' .. I don't know what to enter for the gate way,, I have two unique IP addresses. And the console is blinking, but the pc wont identify the network.. Lost..

[winedup]

Grrr. I'm trading all my computing devices in for a steam driven wire recorder and a horse! {Eh hmm..} As you can see, I'm lost when it comes to this fancy computin' .. I don't know what to enter for the gate way,, I have two unique IP addresses. And the console is blinking, but the pc wont identify the network.. Lost..

Should be able to leave the gateway address blank on both devices - GW only matters if your network packets are leaving the local subnet, which in this case they should not be. I'll try this on my Win8 box sometime tomorrow.

HTH,

Don