Running Congo Offline under Win 7 Ultimate. No gateway..

For the above network, use 101.10.1.1 as the Gateway IP.

As you've found, Windows Vista and 7 will not allow the computer IP and Gateway IP to be the same, so instead you can use an IP in the same subnet.
(Windows will probably complain If there is no route to the Internet - this doesn't matter.)

For the ETC default network IPs, use 10.101.1.1 as the Gateway IP.

nop... no communication....  :/

btw, at offline congo, at the main screen down right it must be ETCNet2 , I/O , Console running?

coz i dont see that now ... and i forgot if that services running at Win XP Offline congo

btw i wrote wrong values

101.10.84.101 (computer ip)

255.255.0.0 (subnet mask)

101.10.84.101 (thats the gateway.same with computer ip)

Correct values

10.101.84.101 (computer ip)

255.255.0.0 (subnet mask)

10.101.1.1 (gateway. the values you told me to use)

Check your windows firewall rules to make sure the Offline congo executable is permitted to send and receive UDP and TCP packets. UDP multicasts are blocked by default.

nah. firewall is not running in my comp. i disabled some services i dont need. including firewall. i guess ill switch to XP again

There is no way in Windows to fully disable the firewall.  Disabling the firewall does not open up the UDP ports. Check the custom settings and make sure UDP is enabled to the congo app.

i never had UDP problems when i disable firewall service. i never had torrent problems either.

but even its disabled i turn it on from services.msc and tcp/ip UDP  bla bla bla for congo.exe was good.

still no communication..... (you run congo offline from win7??)

dont understand what is wrong...  after 3 days of installing programs and drivers and doing all that things to setup my comp with shared folders,themes and this and that, i found out that congo dont run at vista-7...

No experience with Congo. Plenty of experience with Windows IP stack, socket programming, etc.

What kind of equipment are you trying to control with Congo Offline? What data protocol are you using for this (sACN, Net2 etc)?

SmartPack Dimmers via NET2. under WinXP SP3 everything is working fine. not the same with Win7

Have you selected which network connection that NET2 should send data on? I think there is a tool called NICPicker.

varsamis_k said:

SmartPack Dimmers via NET2. under WinXP SP3 everything is working fine. not the same with Win7

This is not supported, and will not work properly under any circumstances.

Congo Offline is, as the name "Offline" implies, an Offline Editor.

It is intended for Offline pre-programming usage, for example connecting to a visualiser such as Wysiwyg, Capture Polar, ESP Vision etc to pre-porogram a show, as a training tool to help learn the console etc.

This same application can also be used in combination with a Congo Client Dongle (looks like a purple USB stick) to connect 'live' across a network to a Congo, Congo jr, Congo Kid or Congo LightServer Console for remote programming/control as a "Client" to the main console.

We have tested output to visualisers and Client connections to 'full' Congo consoles under Windows 7, and this works correctly, though sometimes needs some adjustment of firewalls.

However, direct control of 'real' lighting fixtures using the Offline Editor is not supported and cannot be expected to work.

you mean from congo settings prefered network?

-Enable offline output in Offline mode

on

-Protocols 

ETCNet2  Priority 10  server-backup same priority

-Universe Map

Logical network 0

-Network

Automatic (when i disable the wifi)

10.101.83.101 (when wifi is on)

i use the same settings with WinXp. i am almost sure its the gateway. since computer ip and gateway must be the same.

thats the ip i use right now

(10.101.80.101 for congo)

(10.101.81.101 for junior)

(10.101.83.101 for laptop)

(NICPicker? why to use it?)

As Richard pointed out: The Offline version doesn't really support output data to dimmers. Therefore, Congo doesn't have a way to configure ETCNet2.