Connecting Actuators to University/Work Network
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:35 pm
Hello,
I have an x-8 actuator that I am trying to connect to, using a university network, but I am having trouble connecting to it from my computer. The actuator has a green blinking light, which I think signifies that the actuator was able to get an IP address and is waiting communication. However, when I run the code, it says no actuators were found.
I am connected to ethernet on the same network as the actuator using Cat6 cables. I am using the python version of the starter code and libraries on a PC. (AMD Ryzen 9 running latest version of windows).
I first thought it was a firewall issue that prevented me from discovering other devices on the network, so I turned off windows firewall and I restarted my computer. This did not work. I further allowed network exceptions for python and spyder, so that they are able to make outcoming and incoming connections on a public network. I restarted my computer but again, this did not work. I included screenshots of what I detailed above and a picture of the IDE when I run the code. I added a print line in the code that prints out the size of the entrylist, besides that, the code is unchanged from when I downloaded it from GitHub.
Thank you
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have an x-8 actuator that I am trying to connect to, using a university network, but I am having trouble connecting to it from my computer. The actuator has a green blinking light, which I think signifies that the actuator was able to get an IP address and is waiting communication. However, when I run the code, it says no actuators were found.
I am connected to ethernet on the same network as the actuator using Cat6 cables. I am using the python version of the starter code and libraries on a PC. (AMD Ryzen 9 running latest version of windows).
I first thought it was a firewall issue that prevented me from discovering other devices on the network, so I turned off windows firewall and I restarted my computer. This did not work. I further allowed network exceptions for python and spyder, so that they are able to make outcoming and incoming connections on a public network. I restarted my computer but again, this did not work. I included screenshots of what I detailed above and a picture of the IDE when I run the code. I added a print line in the code that prints out the size of the entrylist, besides that, the code is unchanged from when I downloaded it from GitHub.
Thank you
Any help would be greatly appreciated.