My studio doesn’t have real internet. I use my phone as a hotspot, and plugged a USB-to-Ethernet adapter into my MacBook. Hammered away at it for ages, but couldn’t connect to PolyPulse. Is there a preferred adapter for doing this kind of thing?
I bought this one and couldn’t make it work:
My connection attempt was with the firmware just before the current one. I finally put Polypulse in my van and drove to the nearest ethernet cable. Which worked fine, of course- updated with no trouble at all.
I think the usb ethernet adapater looks fine. Can you check in network settings if it shows up / is detected by the computer under system preferences → network? On the left you should see a list of devices. In that list there should be a network called something like ethernet adapter USB 100/1000 LAN.
Then on the PolyPulse can you check if it shows anything in the network settings (press [settings] and scroll down)? At least ethernet IPv6 should show a value.
Now if there is an ethernet IPv6 value but still you can’t get http://polypulse.local/ to load, try turning off your WiFi.
IP assignment: static ethernet IPv4: 169.254.206.200 (press edit to type new value, use the same numbers as your computer up until the last dot, then use a different number between 0 and 255)
Then restart the OS: [edit]+[settings] → shutdown PolyPulse
After about 10 seconds, remove the power cable, wait a few seconds and put the power cable back in.
Then in your browser type in the IPv4 value as used above for the PolyPulse
That worked, once I realized that I’d unplugged the USB dongle at some point and it had switched to using a new IPv4. So I went through the process on PolyPulse again and it’s finally connected.
For the next knuckle-dragging Neanderthal who has this problem: to change the IPv4 on PolyPulse, you have to switch from ‘static’ to ‘dynamic’ and back again before you can type in a new number.
Chrome said “No internet” when I tried it with WiFi off, and I needed to type the numbers to connect. But once I typed the numbers, http://polypulse.local seemed to work again.