RC1xx LED Lighting Controllers - User Manual
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i.
Right-click the Windows 10™ icon at the left of your PC’s task bar.
ii.
Select
Network Connections
.
iii.
in the Status pane, click on
View your network properties
.
iv.
DHCP enabled will be set to ‘yes’ if DHCP is in use.
You can find out what IP address is being used by a PC at any time by
following the steps below:
i.
Right-click the Windows 10™ icon at the left of your PC’s task bar.
ii.
Select
Network Connections
.
iii.
In the left hand pane, click on
Ethernet
.
iv.
Click on your network icon under
Ethernet
.
Your IP address will be given as the ‘IPV4 address’.
8.1.2 Fixed IP address
When using a fixed IP address, you must ensure that you use an IP address
that is not being used by any other device on the network. It is usual to
keep the first three numbers of the IP address the same as other devices
and to change only the last number. For example, if you have a network
consisting of a PC (IP address 192.168.1.35) and two RC12xs, they could be
allocated addresses 192.168.1.201 and 192.168.1.202.
8.2
Automatic sensing
The RC12x ends out a message on three events:
»
On power up,
»
When an IP address is received or renewed by DHCP, and
»
When an enquiry message is received
On the first two events, the message is broadcast. On the third it is a reply
to a single IP address.
An enquiry message is a UDP packet from source port 30310, destination
port 30311 with the message body ‘Gardasoft Search’ (8-bit ASCII, 16
characters).
The message output by the RC12x is a UDP packet from source port 30311,
destination port 30310. It is formatted as:
Gardasoft,RC12x,000000,111111111111,22222222
(8-bit ASCII, 44 characters), where:
000000 is the serial number of the unit
111111111111 is the MAC address in 6 HEX bytes
22222222 is the IP address in 4 HEX bytes