I have the same issue here at home as well as with 2 Windows PCs in the company.
I installed the crowdrender addon on both machines. On one machine, I am adding the other one as a new node. It is recognized and the right IP-address has been found. When I hit the connect button, there is a message in the blender top bar "connecting to nodes", which disappears after 3 seconds. Nothing else happens. The node stays grayed out without a status.
As I said, the exact same thing happens, when I try to connect 2 PCs in the company.
Also, signing into the Cloudrender cloud does not work. I enter my credentials and when I hit "login" nothing happens.
I am using the latest 2.79 (nightly) build with CR 0.16.
Any help would be much appreciated as I think that this is a fantastic tool...if it would only be working :-)
Best regards,
Michael
Dear Michael,
Apologies that this wasn't answered sooner. Ok, If you are using daily builds, you are in luck. For the longest time CR didn't support daily builds of 2.79 because of the many different python versions that 2.79 daily (or nightly) builds used.
In v017 we have changed this so that CR can support any version of python between 3.5.x and 3.7.0 (x being any patch revision number).
V017 is not out yet, but we are offering anyone, including yourself, the change to test it before we officially release it. I'd be very happy to provide you with some download links. If you'd like to test it, please reply and I'll find a way to give you the links :)