Hi all, just to report that even some of our ROACH-1's Xport dead suddenly loosing the great functions of remote power on/off ;( We thought the same solution to use a low cost controller but not yet implemented. We will do it when the new Roach2 rack will be ready.
Cheers, Andrea Cheers, Andrea 2014-12-04 2:18 GMT+01:00 Louis Dartez <louisdar...@gmail.com>: > Hi Jason, > > I've encountered similar issues with R1's before. I think it comes back > to the xports simply being unreliable. I've heard of cases in which the > xports work for a few months but unpredictably stop working at some point. > There have also been cases in which the xport never works to begin with. The > latter has been the case with some of the LoFASM ROACH-1's; xport was dead > out of the box. > > In one particular case this became a problem for us since we really needed to > be able to access the auto power-on feature as well as be able to force the > R1 on/off remotely. We ended up programming an arduino that was used as a > 'digital finger' that emulated the pressing of the power button on the > chassis itself. Our ROACH board at LoFASM-II at the LWA North Arm is > configured this way. > > Best of luck, > L > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 3, 2014, at 18:42, Jason Ray <j...@nrao.edu> wrote: >> >> All, >> >> We're having an issue with a roach1 in GB where we can't access the xport. >> It doesn't seem to respond using a web browser to the default IP of >> 192.168.20.4. We also had our sys admin add an entry for its MAC address to >> our DHCP server and we still cannot communicate with it. >> >> As far as I know, we have never even tried to access the xport on this >> roach, much less accidentally set it to some IP we can't remember. >> >> We know our laptop is configured correctly because we can access xport on >> one of the other roaches here. >> >> A few questions -- does anyone have a suggestion on how we could get into >> the xport? Is there a way to reset it to the factory defaults by chance? >> >> We need to do this to enable the "auto power-up" feature. Is there any >> other way to enable this feature besides xport? >> >> Thanks, >> Jason >> > -- Andrea Mattana I.N.A.F. - Istituto di Radioastronomia Radiotelescopi di Medicina Via Fiorentina, 3513 - 40059 Medicina (Bo) Tel. 051/6965834 Fax. 051/6965810
