First let me state that with eesdr2 I have never had a problem with setting up my radio. With eesdr3 no matter which new version of software comes out, I never seem to have a good experience. Thus, it has been a long time since I have fired up my DX to play radio. One fustration I have is that no matter what I try I can never get the software ip to set to my network ip. I use 192.168.50.x for my main lan network. Here is my confusion, when I start EESDR it shows I have a radio on 192.168.50.200, fine. Once I start EESDR, and go in settings, it shows the radio on 192.168.16.x , so I try to change this to 192.168.50.x .......... it will never change, stays on 192.168.16.x. Very confusing.

Now I have a brand new computer with two lan ports, I think Great this will solve my problem, once and for all. Set one lan for network and the other lan for 192.168.16.x and connect my dx direct to this port and that will solve the problem. nope not at all. When I start my EESDR3 software it is still showing my radio with a .50 address. I try to add a .16 address radio to my start list and it will not take. What am I doing wrong?

One last point, the radio would work with this confusing ip difference but not the TCI, that is what I am trying to solve.

Thanks for any feedback to what I am missing.

Phil Forrest
AG5EY

Hi Phil,

The IP address shown on the settings screen is not your SunSDR's current IP address. It looks to me like it always defaults back to 192.168.16.200, port 50001.
When you change that address or port, then click the "Set new address" button to have the IP of your device changed your device's address will be changed but when you restart EESDR3, the address shown there will revert to the original 192.168.16.200, as far as what I could notice.
Indeed, this looks a little puzzling but it doesn't mean that the SunSDR's IP wasn't changed. You can always see the device's actual IP and port in the EESDR3 device manager window. (see attached screenshot)

Running two LANs on your computer with different IP ranges should work. Unfortunately, My computer does only have one LAN card, so I took a different approach. In my network I'm using the 192.168.1.xxx address range. I used to run this as a class C network but when I got my SunSDR I simply changed the subnet mask in my router from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.0.0. So I can now reach all my devices plus the SunSDRs without having do do any reconfiguration. This is maybe not a very elegant way, I would rather say its a "quick and dirty" approach but it does a good job and I haven't found any negative impacts yet.

As for TCI - TCI is not provided by the SunSDR but by the EESDR3 software. Thus, the TCI IP address is always the address of the computer that EESDR3 is running on. Which means that for local applications that use TCI, you can user your computer's (main IP) address, or "localhost", or 127.0.0.1.

Yes, this setting is very confusing. Would be better to show the actual IP-Address, not the Expert Default (which is a weird ip-address, imho).

thanks for your reply, so the ip address in the settings does not do anything I guess. Now, the next question, as stated above, I have a direct connection from PC to radio using the second lan port set to .192.168.16 so I when I open eesdr software on the start list the radio shows as the old network address of 192.168.50. I would like to change the radio address on this start list to 192.168.16. I can not delete the current radio form the list or can I add the radio as new with the .16 network address.

I would like to have the radio correctly set up on it's own lan direct to PC, while I have the local lan on a different network. I have found nothing in V3 that allows me to change the radio address on the start menu.

Thanks
Phil Forrest
AG5EY

Hello all.
Please publish this information in GitHub, it's not supposed to work like this, probably just some code strings are missing.
github.com/ExpertSDR3/ExpertSDR3-BUG-TRACKER