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Re: Needing Suggestions - Connecting multiple buildings with Crestron
I question the rationale for this.? Anybody can use a free network scanner and in less than 1 minute know what is where regardless of hostname or IP.? Chaning hostnames and IPs really doesn't gain them anything.? It just sounds like they don't have enough to do in the day.? Using authentication on the processors and changing the password every couple of months, that I can understand.? On another note, do the Crestron systems need to be on their internal network?? Can they create an isolated dedicated VLAN for the Crestron systems that no one has access to?? We have had to do this to appease the IT departments before.? If they insist on doing this, which they probably will, this will be a reoccurring fee for them and for you.? That might change their mind.
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Re: vs2008 not creating a .clz file
If you look in the build output window, do you see any issues reported there? ?The clz is part of the post build and anything like a sandbox violation will prevent the clz step from completing. ?There should be info about that in the output though.
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Re: Needing Suggestions - Connecting multiple buildings with Crestron
The tedious way would be to create a template IP table file and edit FTP it to each processor. That's the .dip file. It's tedious because you'd have to manually edit the file for each program, upload and restart the program. I have another method that I used to create IP tables for 280 rooms at one site that all had differing IP addresses so I only had to maintain one file, but its an involved process using three different S+ modules and still requires you to ftp into the processors affected, if only to upload the master file. |
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vs2008 not creating a .clz file
Greetings all. So I'm creating a quickie S+/S# module to sort a list alphabetically. I need this module to run on 3 series as the DMPS3 is still with us. It's been a few years, so I dusted off my copy of vs2008, created the C# code and built it. Builds OK. But it creates? the .dll but not the .clz file. The project type was set to "SIMPL # Library" and all the properties look the same as an example solution from back in the day, but alas, no .clz. Thanks in advance all! Mark |
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Re: NVX With Cisco 9300
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýGlad we could help! ? -- Lincoln King-Cliby Commercial Market Director ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
proggieus
Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 3:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [crestron] NVX With Cisco 9300 ? Thank You, Lincoln. |
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Re: Needing Suggestions - Connecting multiple buildings with Crestron
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýThe buildings are somewhat irreverent¡ what is the network topology? E.g. are they all on the same VLAN/broadcast domain or does each building (or each floor or each room) a separate VLAN/broadcast domain? ? If they aren¡¯t in the same broadcast domain Autodiscover won¡¯t work, full stop. If they are in the same broadcast domain if you avoid defining DNS servers on the processor using the hostname configured on processor *may* work acceptably relying on Crestron¡¯s mDNS resolver. However, if the IP changes after the hostname is resolved there¡¯s a decent possibility that the processor will need to be rebooted to re-resolve the new IP. If you can have real DNS records (or CNAMES pointing at the hostnames if they insist on revolving hostnames) this would likely have similar results, though I¡¯m not entirely convinced Crestron processors respect DNS TTL expiry (but I¡¯ve been too impatient to wait it out, and likely would still reflect some disruption of service). ? If you can have at least one processor (perhaps in a data center) locked to a static IP Address there are a few options (each of which offends my sensibilities in different and relatively minor ways) ?that would allow the edge processors to ¡®float¡¯ at unknown, perpetually changing, IP addresses. ? -- Lincoln King-Cliby Commercial Market Director ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Brad Wykoff via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 11:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [crestron] Needing Suggestions - Connecting multiple buildings with Crestron ? On a campus with multiple buildings, each building is communicating with each other over an Ethernet ISC symbol but now IT Department is requesting for security purposes to change the IP and Hostname scheme every 2 months. This makes hard coding IP Addresses not possible and not wanting to be onsite every 2 months to make changes. I know I can do an Ethernet Discovery to get current device IP or Hostname but can those be hardcoded into an EISC symbol? |
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Re: NVX With Cisco 9300
Another thing to check is the power settings on the ports.? I was having problems with the over utilization of the POE and had to force a couple ports to the MAX POE to keep them from rebooting once a stream started and the device starting really working hard. On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 12:24?PM proggieus <t.tvetene@...> wrote: Thank You, Lincoln. |
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Re: DSC PowerSeries Neo
On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 09:34 AM, Gary Miller wrote:
The Neo module is 4 series only, that may be your issue.Not sure that its Lo@'s?issue, but thank you for reminding me!!? It was mentioned earlier in this post, but I forgot...? (Where are those brain-cells anyway???) |
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Needing Suggestions - Connecting multiple buildings with Crestron
On a campus with multiple buildings, each building is communicating with each other over an Ethernet ISC symbol but now IT Department is requesting for security purposes to change the IP and Hostname scheme every 2 months. This makes hard coding IP Addresses not possible and not wanting to be onsite every 2 months to make changes. I know I can do an Ethernet Discovery to get current device IP or Hostname but can those be hardcoded into an EISC symbol?
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Re: CrestronGo Remote Access
As Lincoln mentioned, virtually all newer ISPs are using Carrier NAT for their IPv4 address and/or are using IPv6 addresses.? The main reason is probably because real IPv4 addresses are in short supply and those that are available are own by your older telecoms such as Spectrum, Comcast, & ATT.?
Given that, every newer ISP I have interfaced with do offer the option to get a real routeable IPv4 address with no NAT in the middle.? But it comes at a price and typically cost $5 to $25 per month for that option -- more if you want a static IP. Another option is to set up your own cloud openvpn server and use that to relay connection to your Crestron processor.? That is something I don't believe Crestron supports so you will have to some additional hardware on the Crestron side that can create that link. |
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Re: DSC PowerSeries Neo
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On April 4, 2023 11:21:36 PM CDT, "lo via groups.io" <lo@...> wrote:
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Re: CrestronGo Remote Access
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýYour provider may not be giving you a true IPv4 WAN address but may be using CGNAT (¡°Carrier Grade¡±, i.e. ISP-level, network address translation) ¨C essentially putting your NAT router behind their NAT router. [See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT] ? In these cases port forwarding is basically unusable because they¡¯d essentially have to do the same thing on their routers and that requires effort they likely don¡¯t want to expend for residential accounts.? There has been a standardized approach for this called Port Control Protocol, but at least in the US, the ISP response is more likely to be to tell you to use their business service, and that running a server of any kind (including a Crestron processor to enable CrestronGo is contrary to the residential terms of service). ? If you can see the IPv4 ¡°WAN¡± IP address of the router [using its config page, not a ¡°what is my IP¡± website ?and it either falls within the official CGNAT range (100.64.0.0 to 100.127.255.255) or differs from the IP reported by a ¡°what is my IP¡± site this is likely the cause. ? One potential alternative is to look at a cloud VPS provider, and setup a hairpin VPN, e.g. the site has an ¡®always on¡¯ VPN connection to your server at that cloud provider, and your mobile device either has an always on or ad-hoc VPN connection to the provider and just forwards traffic from A to B. ? Lincoln ? ? -- Lincoln King-Cliby Commercial Market Director ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Adam
Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 7:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [crestron] CrestronGo Remote Access ? Just to add I had an odd message from my Fibre provider that port forwarding may not work as their service is IPv6 based? |
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Re: DSC PowerSeries Neo
I just downloaded the latest version, and loaded it into my processor. |
Gregory Oldacre
Gary Miller