INDI webmanager help needed

[AstroMuni]

Hi,

I have setup Astroberry on my RPi and set it to connect via ethernet cable to my laptop running linux. So the RPi gets assigned a 169.254.x.x address. If I enable the Wifi on the RPi and connect it to my home Wifi I am able to connect to the INDI webmanager from Kstars/Ekos profile. But if I disable the Wifi on the RPi so its only connected via ethernet cable to my laptop, I cant get Ekos to find the INDI webmanager. So my guess is that the webmanager is NOT listening to requests from the 169.254.x.x address??

How can I get this fixed?

[KP82]

If you're connecting your RPi to your laptop without using a router or switch, you will need a cross-over cable instead of a standard patch cable.

Edited April 7, 2021 by KP82

[AstroMuni]

38 minutes ago, KP82 said:

If you're connecting your RPi to your laptop without using a router or switch, you will need a cross-over cable instead of a standard patch cable.

That is not necessary. The RPi's ethernet is smart enough to figure out and compensate for it. 🙂 Initially I also thought that but looks like that is a thing of the past. That connectivity is working perfectly for me in the sense that I can connect to INDI server on port 7624, VNC to it etc. Its just the INDI webserver on port 8624 which is causing me grief 😞 This port 8624 is open and I can traceroute via this.