Crow render not working!

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Hello everyone,

Maybe someone can give me a hint as to what I am doing wrong.

- I have 2 computers connected in WIFI to the same router.

- They are part of the same homegroup and can access each other's files.

- Both have WIN10 and Blender 2.79 installed

- Both have Crowrender installed and get the Discovered Network Success message

- When I add the 2nd PC name to the search box in crowrender it is recognised as crowrednder does not ask me for an IP address.

- The sync % goes all the way up to 100% then says : sync failed.

- One thing I have found that is different from the setup video is that under the Network connection tab of crowrender they do not display the same IP, one is 192.168.1.11 abd the other 192.168.1.6. I cannot change this.

Question : is my network setup wrong? I cannot find the individual IP address of theses computers as they are behind the router, can someone help me out here?

Thanks!

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paul hartsuyker

Dec 27, 2020

I use TightVNC on all three(3) of my stations, with Links on each station that allow me to view the other two. Once this is working well, I am well convinced that 'they' are all talking to each other. I sit at one station, and setup and monitor the other two using VNC. Make sure that 'Sharing' is turned on for the drives on each station as needed. I also use it to check the Task Manager on each station to see CPU and Memory usage. I find it a very useful way to 'know' that 'they' are all talking to each other. Good Luck.

Miff Miff

Apr 01, 2020

Not working all versions. This 2.80 v. https://monosnap.com/file/TpahyR8jfiOMwMYF6fCwA2D5jtxbPO

James Crowther

Dec 28, 2020

Replying to

You need to select "cycles" or "eevee" from the render engines, not the blank one. Long story but that blank render engine you have selected is a special render engine we built that is automatically used behind the scenes when you press the render still or render animation buttons in the crowdrender panel (see below)

2. Your system appears to be perfectly synced and ready to render and resyncing is working too. Please bear in mind you will NOT see this updating on your render nodes. It appears from the video that you're expecting to see the changes you make updating in blender on another computer, that is not how Crowdrender works :)

ndongンドング一信

Apr 09, 2019

also, is it still needed to manually move the cache to the clients?

James Crowther

Apr 09, 2019

Hi @ndongンドング一信 and Jean, I hope you guys are well :) Just to let you know that we're close to releasing 017, would either of you like to test it in pre-release? If so please reply and I will send you download links :)

Thanks for being part of our community :)

ndongンドング一信

Apr 09, 2019

Replying to

Hey James,

Yes I really would like to test it with both 2.79b and 2.8

James Crowther

Dec 18, 2018

Hi @ndongンドング一信 thanks! And for your security, I deleted the comment you made just a moment ago, didn't think you'd want that in the public domain ;)