[ANSWERED] Sending OSC between Macs over Ethernet

[Reinhard]

Hi,

I want to send OSC from my old Trashcan to my new M1 Laptop over an ethernet cable.

Over WiFi it works, over ethernet I can connect the two and read files vice versa, but OSC refuses to appear.

Any hints? Do I need a router for this?

All my best

Reinhard

[Juriaan]

@reinhard

What you need is a DHCP host device, which could be another Macbook, or the normal way to do this is by connecting both devices to a router.

Method 1) Buying a Router

1. Buy a router
2. Connect both machines thru Ethernet cables to the router
3. Restart Isadora to gain a new IP address, if it was still running

Method 2) Thru DHCP / Making a router of one of your Macs

1. Connect the two devices with an Ethernet cable
2. Go to Settings > Network and pick your Ethernet network
3. In the Configure IPv4 Dropdown select "Manually"
4. Set the IP address to something outside of the already used IP ranges. In this example, we are going to use 10.0.0.2 (This is the IP address of this device / PC for the Ethernet Network adapter)
5. Subnet Mask to 255.255.0.0
6. Router to 10.0.0.1
   
7. Click Apply
   
8. Disconnect any other Networks (WiFi for example)
9. Restart Isadora, Isadora should now have the IP address of 10.0.0.2. Go to File > Preferences to see the IP address that Isadora is using
10. Now let's setup our other device!
11. Open up your Network settings again and follow choose "Use DHCP with manual address"
12. Fill in an IP address as 10.0.0.3.
13. Click Apply
    
14. You should now have an connection between the two devices, simply sent some OSC over the Network!

[Reinhard]

@juriaan

Thanks a ton!

Would have never figured that out.