Good afternoon, situation: you need to transfer the ART-NET protocol (LED control protocol) over Wi-Fi.
The laptop has a program for controlling lighting devices, there are 5 controllers (on the LED strip), when connected via an RJ45 wire, everything works fine - the program transmits a signal via an Ethernet wire to the controller.
Bought routers: 1pc - Tp-link archer c9, 5pc - tp-link tl-mr3040.
Scheme: laptop => main router via LAN => distribution via WIFi to five routers => each router is connected to its controller via LAN.
Each controller has its own IP.
The tl-mr3040 routers were tied to the main router as clients - everything works without problems, but the signal does not come out from the laptop.
The laptop and the main router are connected LAN -LAN, maybe LAN-WAN is needed?
Answer:
Good afternoon. The question is clear, the scheme is too. Although, I'm not familiar with the ART-NET protocol.
I think everything should work. You can try this: a cable from a laptop to TP-Link Archer C9 to the LAN connector. And on Archer C9, disable the DHCP server. You can also try on a WAN with a disabled DHCP server.
As I understand it, you are using Tp-link Tl-mr3040 in client mode. Most likely it won't work. Although, first you need to check the client mode by disabling the DHCP server on all Tp-link Tl-mr3040. Then, you can try repeater mode.
I think that everything can work only if the DHCP server is not enabled on all routers. It is because of him that the program cannot connect with controllers. Since it turns out that the routers are not on the same network.
22.07.16
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Asked by Julia
