<html><head></head><body><div>On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 22:29 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Douglas Sargent <<a href="mailto:dbsargent@gmail.com">dbsargent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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Question, I assume the box get it's IP by DHCP from my router.
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Correct. It is possible to set the IP address manually
(I think in the system tab, but I do not currently have
access to any Ceton tuners to check that).
Typically I would expect that you would want to use your
DHCP server to set a reservation (so you get a more or
less "static" IP address that way and that means you
do not have to run the magic network address reset scripts
in the case the device moves to a different environment).
Unfortunately, I do not recall the physical device having
the MAC address on the bottom/side, so you likely
have to obtain it separately (I could be wrong, and the
MAC address is on there, it was a long time ago I looked
at a Ceton device, and my eyes are not what they used
to be).
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When you add the tuners in Mythtv, what IP address:tuner are you using?
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Typically I would expect it to be the IP address from the
reservation.
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Does it have a web page similar to the other Ceton products to monitor the ETH box?
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Yes.
I believe (to first approximation) that Ceton uses
common firmware (and at startup the device specific
functionality is enabled), so every device has a similar
look and feel. But only those with many different
tuners have probably compared and contrasted
carefully.
</pre></blockquote><div>The device is set up to use DHCP. There is a default address if DHCP does not provide an address. The included paperwork shows that address. You can download if you want to see it early. You can configure a static address. </div><div><br></div><div>You will want to have 1Gb if you expect to be doing more than a couple simultaneous streams. I connected mine directly to a port on the BE so that I am not sharing bandwidth with any of the FE.</div><div><br></div><div>I like the device, but there are a couple pet peeves: The onboard clock starts at the epoch with every boot and there is no NTP setting. And the device will not syslog to a external device. I assume that the underlying OS is some *nix derivative.</div><div><br></div><div>The hardest part of using this device is getting support from the cable provider (Charter). There customer-facing techs can't envision that a CableCard could be inserted in anything other than a TiVo. Being the last node in the cable, I have had multiple support calls for poor signal quality.</div></body></html>