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[degrub]

It would be interesting to know what they saw in diagnostics.
I have a couple ‘extends’ as well.

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

It would be interesting to know what they saw in diagnostics.
I have a couple ‘extends’ as well.

Yes, they did not say......... Do you go to the HDHomeRun forum?

 

[degrub]

Have not had a real need to so far.

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

Day 4 and 3 nights, Dahua IP camera and networked tuner still online this morning. Put the SiliconDust tuner, that was determined to be defective by SiliconDust, back online yesterday, and it has not dropped off the network yet.

This is very good news, because in the last 2 of 3 weeks, these devices dropped off the network EVERY night. I still have most of my networked devices offline, but today I will start adding them back into the system. Today, since there are 4 NFL football games playing, I wish to record and watch them today. My DVR is the HDHomeRun DVR running on m WD NAS, so I will turn it on this morning.

Really not sure at this point what is causing my issue. I have gotten some very good suggestions, on these forums, and implemented most of them. Several people have commented about having a ghost HDCP server, so I have disabled any devices that I THINK COULD possibly do that.

Also, it was suggested, that I move all my Ethernet cables from the router to my switch, which I did. It was also recommend that I replace the "Green" switch with a NON "Green" switch, which I did.

I am sorry, if I have not given proper credit to those that have given me the suggestions that I have implemented.

Also, there are other things that has been suggested, that I have done, and really helps in diagnosing this problem. Hopefully, in a couple more weeks, I can definitively say what caused my devices to drop off my network every night.

I will keep posting what I am doing.

Thanks for all the help, I really did not know where to start, and you guys have taught this old man alot........

 

[degrub]

It is not inconceivable that the combination of DVR and flaky tuner and/or something in line between the two causes the issue.

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

It is not inconceivable that the combination of DVR and flaky tuner and/or something in line between the two causes the issue.

Hopefully in a couple of weeks I can have an answer. But 3 nights without the IP camera or tuner not dropping off the network is a good sign. Every morning, when I check to see it they are still online, I cringe, hoping they are still online. That tells me that I am making progress.

When the IP camera drops off line, I have no live or recorded feed from that camera.

When the tuner drops offline, I can't watch or record any TV.

 

[Dan No]

I had similar issue in small office a couple years ago. Certain devices would go off network overnight (printers, cameras, coffee machines). The green sleep setting mentioned by others is clue. But these devices didn't have any sleep timeouts.

i set up Solarwinds monitoring to gather data on every device on network, hoping to find a trend. Or at very least, find timeframe when they went offline. Well, i never did find problem as those devices never went to offline again! I suspect the regular 3-minute polls by Solarwinds kept them alive on network. There may be embedded deep in firmware sleep time-out or something.

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

I had similar issue in small office a couple years ago. Certain devices would go off network overnight (printers, cameras, coffee machines). The green sleep setting mentioned by others is clue. But these devices didn't have any sleep timeouts.

i set up Solarwinds monitoring to gather data on every device on network, hoping to find a trend. Or at very least, find timeframe when they went offline. Well, i never did find problem as those devices never went to offline again! I suspect the regular 3-minute polls by Solarwinds kept them alive on network. There may be embedded deep in firmware sleep time-out or something.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

Day 5, night 4 and my Dahua IP cam and networked TV tuner at still online this morning. This is very encouraging that I am getting closer to solving the issue of some of my networking devices dropping off my network each day/night. Today, I will put my Synology NAS back into service. I am thinking long and hard about putting my Vorke V2 (Windows 10 microPC) back into service, it is running my Emby and Plex servers. If my devices do not drop off then network by tomorrow morning, I will start adding my other devices back into the system.

If I am able to get all my devices back online without them dropping off the network, then I will start backtracking to see what I did to "cure" my issue.

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

Day 6, night 5 and my Dahua IP cam and networked TV tuner at still online this morning. Yesterday, I put my Vorke V2 (Plex and Emby servers) back online. Today, I will put my Zidoo X9s (running OpenWRT in the background), back online. If my devices do NOT drop offline tomorrow, then I will put the rest of my networked devices back online. After a couple of days of everything back online, and nothing drops off the network, I will put my Asus router back in place.

Still maybe too early to call, but it appears that moving the Ethernet cables from the router to the switch, or replacing the "Green" switch with a non "Green" switch may have been the issue of several of my devices dropping off the network EVERY night.

Edit: I added my Zidoo X9S back into my system, along with a couple of other devices, now my Dahua IP cam just dropped off the network. I have to go power cycle it, to get it to connect to my network again.

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

Feeling pretty confidant that the cause of my devices dropping off my network, was solved. I started adding my devices back into my network. I added my Zidoo X9S (running OpenWRT in the back ground) in the morning. Later that afternoon, my Dahau IP camera dropped on my network. I again removed the Zidoo X9S from my newtork, and my IP camera was still running this morning.
I had thought by replacing my "Green" switch with a non-(Green) switch and moving my Ehternet cables from my router to that switch, had solved the problem, but obviously, it did not.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Sounds promising. Keep going and keep us updated.

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

My IP cam dropped off my network again this morning, NOW I have NO idea what to look at next. I also, connected my Samsung TV back up yesterday, also. Just now there was an update for my Sammy TV.....

 

[degrub]

What happens if you leave the IP cam off and keep adding back devices ?
Maybe that HDHR is having issues again ? Did Silicon Dust ever indicate what they saw in the diagnostic ?

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

What happens if you leave the IP cam off and keep adding back devices ?
Maybe that HDHR is having issues again ? Did Silicon Dust ever indicate what they saw in the diagnostic ?

SD, never told me what their diagnosis showed. I am now at a loss on what I have done so far.

I have ruled out any of my networking hardware. Now it boils down to one of my devices playing havock with my network.

I will try your suggestion the next time one of my devices drops off the network.

 

[coxhaus]

Why don't you send in the device the company wants to replace and see if that was your problem?

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

Why don't you send in the device the company wants to replace and see if that was your problem?

I don't think it is the problem. It may even be my Samsung 4k T V that is/was causing my problem. I am grasping at straws, now. Even though I turn off the TV, it still has power, so it could be causing my network issues.

I have to know,in my mind, what device is causing my problem.

 

[degrub]

So isolate the Samsung, the HDHR, and maybe your DVR on a single 5 port switch. Do not connect your switch to the rest of the network. Make sure each has a fixed IP address locally. The Samsung should use DLNA to find the HDHR. Maybe the DVR as well. See if the IP cam stays online. --

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

So isolate the Samsung, the HDHR, and maybe your DVR on a single 5 port switch. Do not connect your switch to the rest of the network. Make sure each has a fixed IP address locally. The Samsung should use DLNA to find the HDHR. Maybe the DVR as well. See if the IP cam stays online. --

And not have them connect to the internet??

 

[Ronnie Bailey]

I still have not connected my Linux boxes to my network in a couple of weeks. They were dropping off the network every night, same as my IP cam a networked TV tuner. This problem has me completely baffled.