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Adding a 5th RBS850? It's possible I'm told but don't know how...
Morning all, I've had excellent support with FW advice from forum members earlier year and hoping one of you can help me now please. Sounds mad but I have a need for a 5th RBS850 on my system. Ou...
I would disable Armor while you try and get the 5th RBS to connect.
Also need to check it to ensure FW on the incoming RBS is same version as what's on the current system. If the FW on the RBS is too low or too behind, may not connect.
Try ethernet connecting the RBS to the back of the RBR to see if it gets an IP address for the incoming RBS.
Hi Furrye38, good to speak again.
Have to confess to not checking the FW or even thinking about it. When installed, it appears go through each step but fails to find. Updating the FW is a great idea.
As it goes, it turns out I am a FW step behind on 4 sats although I did the router! Worse again, I failed to note the UN & PW last time you helped me get to right FW on all devices earlier year!!!!
I found the post relating to that and I think essentially I need reset each device and then connect to a laptop on a RJ45 and do the manual FW update if I read it correctly?
Maybe it is best to bring all the existing sats up to date then do same on the new unit? All the sats are RJ45 connected. Shame I didn;t do a better job of noting the access details as I guess I could do the manual update without visiting each device.
Yes RBS need to be updated before the RBR is.
If you can connect to the existing and incoming RBS web page and manually update it there, then afterwards, it should sync and connect to the RBR.
Got it yes ..... I have this rush in habit of doing the RBR first. Did that last time. Ironically it did not cause a problem when doing the individual sats.
Just to ask, how can I find the IP address of the new RBS 850? The Armor app did show it briefly but I failed to record it.
Given I've hard reset that unit then I guess the UN and PW will be standard admin & password? If I can do it on the new unit (the 5th one) and get that working then I can work round all the old ones, do a hard reset and set up from zero.
And hopefully remember to do the next FW in the correct order ... as your instructions very clearly state đ