On August 23, 2013 at 08:19, Ghostman1846 said...
For this system, the customer wanted each room isolated as much as possible from the others. His concern was that if one goes down, only one room is effected. So I have 10 different files. Each room only has two items, the XP3 and the iPad in the build file. Each room was programmed independently.
We tried setting up the processors on Static IPs but when this didn't work and I called RTI tech support, they insisted that they remain on DHCP. Not sure why? When I asked if they had tested their products in such a manner, they couldn't give me an answer if they've ever done that. I understand that manufacturers cannot test for every scenario, but I kinda figured that someone other than myself is using multiple processors in an installation.
As of now, the system is working with the iPads and XP3s set for DHCP and the router we are using have reserved the IPs to those devices. This seems to make it work okay and I have yet to lose control like we were before.
However, to me this is a band-aid for a very obvious problem. Until this is resolved we won't be using RTI processors for iPad control for future projects.
Are you using any ip based drivers? Did you know (provided you really dont need to access the internet WAN) that you can set everything to static ip including your lap top and just use a network switch to connect all of your IP stuff together (no router required) would be a good test to see if the problem remains without a router involved. Still sounds to me like you are having some kind of driver conflict, I run into the problem you are describing all the time with smaller setups, where the XP processor keeps dumping, locking up or wont show up in ID, most always it is a driver conflict an IP conflict somewhere, or an address error on a device on the network.
I assume each of these separate systems are on their own channel, did you consider that 10 zigby antennas all going at the same time might be causing serious packet data loss on your wifi network. so if you are using only idevices for control you may want to ditch the XP3 antennas
