[hpsdr] Specifying Explicit IPs for Hermes or Metis in PSDR

[Duane - N9DG]

Actually what I would like to see is a way to specify the IP of the Metis or Hermes within PowerSDR. I have already setup each of my Metis and Hermes boards with static IPs. What I really want to do is run more than one instance of PowerSDR on a single PC and then have each respective install of PowerSDR be permanently associated with a particular Hermes or Metis. Currently there is no way to explicitly configure a PowerSDR session on the same machine to talk a specific Metis or Hermes  (easily?). And ideally with the ability to have both metis or Hermes be on the same IP subnet.

And I could see someday with even more PC horsepower wanting to run even more than 2 of the IP based HPSDR boards on the same computer, in the same subnet.

Duane
N9DG

--- On Sat, 2/9/13, Phil Harman <phil at pharman.org> wrote:

From: Phil Harman <phil at pharman.org>
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Specifying Explicit IPs for Hermes or Metis in PSDR
To: "Lloyd Berg - N9LB" <lloydberg at charter.net>
Cc: hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
Date: Saturday, February 9, 2013, 11:39 PM

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Hi Lloyd,

Setting a static IP address for Metis and Hermes has been available from
V1.0 of the FPGA code.

The next version of FPGA code for these boards will provide a simpler way
of setting the IP address.

See the User Guide for these boards - they explain how to currently do this.

73 Phil...VK6APH


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> Yes, the ability to assign individual static IP addresses is very
> important to my HPSDR plans too.
>
> Hope this will be possible in the near future.
>
> 73
>
> Lloyd - N9LB
>
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> [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org]On Behalf Of Duane - N9DG
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 3:58 PM
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> Subject: [hpsdr] Specifying Explicit IPs for Hermes or Metis in PSDR
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>
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>
> Has there been any thought to modifying PSDR to allow users to explicitly
> specify the IP of the Hermes or Metis that it will talk to?
>
> The reason I ask this I am making good head way on my “round 2 it”
> project of getting all my DDC/DUC HPSDR gear up and running. As part of
> that I'm wanting to run 2 Hermes on one computer and a Metis and Flex 5K
> on another. Running the 5K with either the Metis or Hermes is no sweat.
> What I'm trying to figure out is what is the best way to run either two
> Hermes or a Hermes and Metis on one PC. My original thought was to have
> dedicated NICs for each IP HPSDR radio, but more recently I've concluded
> it would be nice to run all of the IP based radios on the same IP network
> and with addresses all in the same IP range. So my current thinking is
> that it would be extremely useful to be able to attach all 3 IP radios to
> a single switch and then also two separate PCs to that same switch as
> well.
>
> Operationally I would for much of the time be running the two Hermes on
> one PC that I'll call SDR1. These two Hermes will be for 50 and 144 MHz.
> This same machine would also run the Flex 5K and Metis/Mercury/Penelope
> for 222 and 432 MHz when a VHF contest is running. But during the VHF
> contest I would then drive the two Hermes from a second PC that I'll call
> SDR2 instead. Basically the flexibility I'm looking for is to be able to
> move the two Hermes from one machine to another easily and by just
> starting the two PSDR sessions on the appropriate PC as needed.
>
> My thought is that if PSDR could be modified to allow explicit IPs to be
> specified for a particular Metis or Hermes piece of hardware. I could then
> have 4 installs of PSDR on one machine and 2 on the other. All of the
> individual PSDR installs/sessions being explicitly tied to a specific
> piece of hardware. As part of this the Hermes and Mets would each be
> assigned static IPs which is the only way I can see that this could work
> without any kind of name resolution in the Metis and Hermes hardware.
>
> So just how crazy is this idea? Or how hard would it be to do?
>
> 73,
> Duane
> N9DG
>

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