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« on: 2024-01-18, 14:43:26 »
I'm setting up RRC-1258MkIIs with a new IC-7100 and am struggling to get the UDP connections to work. Would value any advice.
Here is what I did:
1 Get the two RRC's talking to each other on my LAN with default IPs 192.168.0.227 (control) and 192.168.0.228 (radio)
2 Set up the strapping, connect the IC-7100 body and control panel to the RRCs
3 I made a QSO perfectly OK using my LAN. So the RRCs talk to the IC-1700 just fine.
4 At the radio side, I set up remoterig DDNS. I also set up TCP port forwarding for ports 23 and 80 and UDP ports 13000,13001,13002. In each case I set them to forward to the LAN address for the radio RRC 192.168.0.228
5 remoterig DDNS assigned me a host name, user name and password just like it should. I put the host name into the control RRC SIP contact.
6 I took the control RRC and the IC-7100 front panel away from the radio site and left the radio and its RRC on with the power LED solid green.
7 Now in my control site I go to a web browser and enter the DDNS host name into a browser. I can remotely see the radio side RRC web page, so I figure that the port forwarding at least for port 80 must be working. I can configure settings on the remote radio RRC and when I apply changes my friend at the radio site tells me the lights on the RRC flash, the RRC reboots and sure enough I can see from its web page that settings did update. So I can control the radio RRC remotely from its web page.
8 Next I connect the control RRC to the internet and its power light comes on solid green. On the LAN where it is connected I can see the control RRC web page and that works fine too. So the two RRCs are both online.
9 Now I connect the IC-7100 control panel to the control RRC and press the power button on the IC-7100 control panel. The IC-7100 screen stays dark, it does not power up, but the orange light next to the control RRC Mic/Aux connector goes orange for a short time then goes off. My friend at the radio site tells me that the orange light next to the control RRC Mic/Aux connector there also comes on for a short time and goes off when I do this.
10 I check both the radio side and control side RRC status web pages. Both say disconnected.
11 On Android, I downloaded the free trial version of the RRC nano app for Icom. When I enter my SIP name, password etc. the app says it is connected but there is no audio. When I do this my friend at the radio side says he can see lights flashing on the radio RRC. When I look at the radio RRC web page it says there is a connection failure and there are UDP errors.
So my conclusion is that the hardware is working, the DDNS is working, TCP connections are ok between the RRCs but somehow the UDP data is not getting through. Can I say the problem is likely router configuration at the radio side? Or is there something I have to do at the control side to get UDP data to flow there also?