Blender 2.8 Nodes Not Connecting

I have the Beta version from Jan 17th (blender-2.80-7c438e5366b2-win64)

I am using a direct ethernet cable hookup between two Win 10 laptops. Both laptops are showing on my network on both machines. I tried first to connect without the cloud auto-connect option and I manually typed in the name of the laptop. It found the IP but just will not connect.

I also tried it using the Cloud service auto-connect -- but that doesn't work either. I get a quick display that says "local is synced" at bottom of blender 2.8 -- but that's it -- then an error about 15 seconds later -- can't connect.

I've tried it from both laptops from one to the other. I'm sorry I don't know if this is a bug or a problem I've just caused by missing a simply obvious step????

Please help -- I'm excited to start using such a service and the cloud feature for rendering is sounding great! Appreciate your time -- I know it takes a lot of effort to program this.

As a final note -- for my internet I am using hotspot from my mobile phone. Didn't know if this would be a problem or not? It simply shows my ethernet has no internet connection -- but I can still communicate between the two laptops via network in windows explorer.

Gary

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11 Comments

James Crowther

Jan 28, 2019

Hi Gary,

We're excited that you're excited :). But seriously, I think we can help. That depends on the version of blender 2.80 beta you are using though, We've just realised that our addon will not work with 2.80.40 and 2.80.41. We're working on a fix for 2.80.40 and we need help from the Blender devs to fix a bug that was introduced into Blender in 2.80.41 that is stopping the addon from working.

As more changes happen in the blender 2.80 beta. We keep running into things we need to change to keep pace! Not that we're making excuses, we're doing our best, thats all. It will be a bumpy ride for a while until finally the official release of blender 2.80 is released and we can all relax a bit since there won't be more changes that will break the addon for the official release of 2.80. Then we'll do it all again for 2.81, yay!

So, if you are using any of the blender 2.80 beta versions I've just mentioned that might explain why things aren't working. If not, please post back straight away, there might be something else we need to look at.

All the best ;D

grpetz

Jan 29, 2019

Replying to

@James Sorry for the abundant replies here -- just discovered the reason it could not connect between the two laptops has something to do with me using the ethernet cable -- I don't have a router handy at my location so I was directly connecting the two laptops via ethernet connection without a router.

I can connect to the node on the slave laptop if I just use my hotspot wifi on my cell phone to network the laptops and disconnect the ethernet cable.

Aside from that -- I have disconnected the HDRI node for the background and stopped using it for lighting and just used a sun lamp. But it still does not render correctly from the slave computer.

And you are correct -- from version 2.80.40 and up it will not work correctly with the slave computer. I can connect the computers but I get no response from the slave computer "unless" I am using 2.80.39 on both machines. Hope you have a solution soon for this :)

I am also very interested in using your add-on with the render cloud you have available as my slave computer is slower than my main and it's practically useless for me to use the slave because it slows down the render process. Unless I am doing something wrong in the setup that I don't see here with your add-on?

Have you considered to offer an option in your node setup to use file placeholders like shown in this setup for local render farms to process animations? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3EcpkwLCFI

Would this help those like me who at this time have a slower slave computer to process animations?

Or am I still missing something with the idea of your setup? Thanks for the patience and help. This is new stuff to me.

Gary

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