USB-to-Ethernet adapters

PolyPulse
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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.

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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.

Let me know if that works!

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Settings on PolyPulse and my MacBook both look good, but I get “This site can’t be reached” when WiFi is on and “No internet” when WiFi is off.

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Can you post a screenshot of the mac network settings of the USB ethernet adapter?

I don’t have a mac laying around here so I can’t look for myself

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Looks like Polypulse has IPv6 but no IPv4, and the USB dongle has IPv4 but no IPv6.

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So your USB adapter is fine!

Try this on the PolyPulse:

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

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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.

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Ah so you can reach the file manager now? That is great!

Do you still need to keep the WiFi turned off when browsing to the IPv4?
Does http://polypulse.local now also work when a static IPv4 is set?

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Yep, http://polypulse.local now works. Sort-of.

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.

Thanks!!

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Alright thanks for letting us know!

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Ah that is a bug. It was probably already on static? I fixed it for next update.

I’ve added this to the manual here Network - PolyPulse manual