Hay
When i use try and login to cloud panel
nothing happens no errors or anything from the logs
mind when i start blender with crowd render
i get
```
Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/jamescrowther/Desktop/Crowdrender/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/blender_addon/2.80/crowdrender/src/cr/ui_operators.py", line 673, in modal
File "/Users/jamescrowther/Desktop/Crowdrender/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/blender_addon/2.80/crowdrender/src/cr/ui_operators.py", line 1320, in process_msgs
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blender\2.83\python\lib\json\__init__.py", line 361, in loads
return cls(**kw).decode(s)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blender\2.83\python\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Blender\2.83\python\lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
location: <unknown location>:-1
```
does anyone have any idea whats happing
Ahhh, Hi Nigel, sorry, I just responded to your ticket, but didn't see this until after I'd written to you. Ok, so this looks like you have a conflicting service on the ports that Crowdrender uses. By default crowdrender uses ports in the range 9000 to 9025.
We've just decided to move them to a different range cause people keep getting this error. I'd recommend moving your ports in crowdrender to 9669 - 9694.
All you need to do is change on setting in blender's preferences for the addon.
Go to Blender > edit menu > preferences > addons tab > Crowdrender
Expand the add-on's preferences by clicking the little triangle. then scroll down to the section named "Network".
You can then change just the "Starting port.." setting to 9669 as shown below.
You can leave the "Port Range" setting as is.