This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Sony PVM-2541 Auto White Balance Software monitor connection?

Your devices are not in the same subnet. Unless you are doing some routing at the switch level the IP of each device must have the same pattern x.x.x.y

x = exactly the same for all

y = unique
255.255.255.0

Also...
001 = 1
010 = 10
101 = 101
010.001.000.110 = 10.1.0.110

Your monitor (10.0.1.84) is not in the same range as your remote (010.001.000.110)

Dom Q. Silverio

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:53 AM, bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Without changing anything on the lap top if I connect a straight ethernet cable to the monitor when I go to choose a network adapter in the Sony Software for the Auto White balance I see:

Local Area Connection 2 ip address: 169.254.175.85
This is with the lap top still set to DCHP.

I found that if I then set the Sony monitor to 169.254.185.086 the software will connect and it works. I set the monitor to User as per the software instructions and also checked auto offset and the checkbox for Y. For some reason I think there was something about the Y adjustment not being part of the earlier version of software. I left the Y set to 100 as that's where is was set to. Then auto adjustment and bang Bob's your Uncle. I set the "Set to to D65 which is what I had had the monitor set to before but now it's been adjusted to this in the user setting. Some of the instructions mention that the software would adjust user 2 and that could then be copied into user 1 but all I see is user on my monitor. Is this perhaps something with the later PVM-2541A models or the BVM etc...

I also noticed that there is a measured value that you can start and stop measuring. I assume the idea would be that I would use the ambient light lens on the X-rite and measure pointing it towards the background wall behind my monitor. The wall I might add is painted E-Cinema's spectral Grey Pain and hit with approx a 5K Kelvin light although it's probably not the most accurate back light is helps with monitor fatigue. Would it make sense in a perfect world that I use the ambient light lens and measure the background and then in the "Set To" setting tell it to set to measured values? Not sure how that would translate to the Y value. I can see how the X and Y would deal with color temp but how would Y come into play here. I wouldn't think you'd want to set the target Y value of the monitor on a measure Y by the probe of the background wall given the wall shouldn't be nearly as bright as the monitor. What's the purpose of the measured values if not for this kind of matching?

I still don't see how I would ever be able to connect to the monitor over my home ethernet given the inability of the monitor to be set to 010.000.xxx.xxx. Why would Sony not allow this as a choice?

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <bigfish@...> wrote :

I tried that with a straight and a cross over cable. I can enable peer to peer on the monitor but the Sony Software is stuck in LAN and I can not activate the radio button next to peer to peer. This is true running on the vista lap top and the Windows 7 professional.

Forgive my network ignorance but the subnet masks match but not the subnets. My laptop is being assigned it's IP address through DCHP so I figure it's the Airport Extreme that is assigning the address. Would I deactivate the DCHP to do this wouldn't I? When I hooked the lap top directly to the monitor it had something like a 192.168.0.1 ish showing in the network adapter. It didn't seem to require a cross over cable, perhaps this is because the Sony monitor has a much more recent ethernet circuit that auto detects. I know in the past when I used this laptop directly connected into an Ensemble Legalizer unit I had to use a cross over cable.

I'll try the direct connection again and see what I can do to match the subnets. I wonder why the Sony monitor doesn't allow "000" in the 2nd group of address numbers from the left?

There really seems to be something basically screwy with the Sony Software in that I can't select Peer to Peer in it and I can't inter an IP address.

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <bogdan_grigorescu@...> wrote :

they will never talk to each other if they are on different subnets.
So change your computer to match the monitor.

I would also suggest to enable peer-to-peer on both and connect them with a simple cat5 cable directly.

BG

From: "bigfish@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Sony PVM-2541 Auto White Balance Software monitor connection?

For the computer Lap Top on Windows Vista

iPv4 address 10.0.1.84
ipv4 subnet mask 255.255.255.0
iPv4 Default Gateway 10.0.1.1
iPv4 DHCP server 10.0.1.1
iPv4 DNS Server 10.0.1.1

On Sony Monitor:

Parallel Remote:

Serial Remote=Ethernet
Monitor:
     Network Setting
     Monitor ID: 1
     Groupt ID: 1
     IP Address: 010.001.000.110
     Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.000
     Default Gateway: On
          Address: 010.001.001.001
     Connection: LAN

I mistyped in my first post. It is the Sony Monitor that won't let me enter a value of "000" in the 2nd from the left address number. Hence I tried to make the default gateway match that of the lap top but I can not enter 10.0.1.1 it will only let me enter 010.001.001.001. There is no way to set it to 010.000.001.001 and I tried scrolling all the way up but the value goes from 001 to 255 not 000 to 255. I don't even know if I need the default gateway address on. It came up default with it off.