Connecting to a wired network

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All you do is plug in the Ethernet cable to the port in the back of the router. If your router uses DHCP (as most do) an address will automatically be assigned to the onefinity controller. If you are accessing the controller from another computer you may want to reserve an IP address as explained here.

Setting up a static IP address

If your router is assigning a new IP address to your controller upon reboot, setting up a static IP address would be beneficial. We will need to do this at the Wi-Fi router level, as you cannot access or change this information on the controller. Doing it at the router level is called assigning a DHCP reservation, though many people (and even some routers) still refer to it as a “static IP address.” DHCP reservations allow you to easily set everything up in one place with all your computers l…