To answer the first question, the M1 panel should be connected to the M1XEP with the 9-pin serial cable, and the M1XEP should then be connected to your PC (or router) with the Cat5 cable.
Pitbull50 said:
The problem I think is when I hit find option, the IP address found for the device doesn't show to be in the router range.
On occasion, my M1XEP shows up on 192.168.0.251 when the rest of my network is on 192.168.1.xxx, and I can then not connect to the XEP using ElkRP.
Here is what I do (in Windows 10 or 7) step-by-step:
I click on the Start Menu, and right click on Network, If Network is not on your Start Menu, click on Control Panel, then Network and Sharing Center.
Then click on "Change adapter settings," then right click on the relevant (if there are more than one) network adapter, and click on its Properties.
Then highlight "Internet Protocol Version 4" and click on properties. Then specify the following IP address: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, where aaa.bbb.ccc. are what you saw when you "found" the XEP and it did not match your router (so, to use my situation described above as an example, I would enter 192.168.0), and ddd is an unused number in your router's system (for example 100). After entering the new IP address (e.g. 192.168.0.100), I enter 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask. Then click "OK," and "Close" to exit out.
Then open ElkRP and connect to the account you want to open, and as RAL notes, find the XEP again AND MAKE SURE to "connect" to the XEP (using "Connections" then "Network").
If this all works, IP address should now not be grayed out and you can specify an IP address for the XEP that matches your router network subnet (the "ccc" octet), send it to the XEP, and then reboot the XEP. I have found that once I specify the "correct" IP subnet in the XEP, I need to click "Assigned an IP address via DHCP" which then shows the IP address I assigned as grayed out. I don't know why this works, but if does for me. (The IP address I assign is a MAC driven assignment in my router's assignment table, so that may explain it).
Once you have done all this, you need to put your computer back to where it was in the correct subnet for your router, so go back into the adapter and change the "Internet Protocol Version 4" address back to your router's range (which probably involves changing the "ccc" number).
I suspect their may be easier ways to accomplish the foregoing (e.g. changing the subnet mask as described above to 255.255.254.0), but thought I would offer you what I have done. I have mentioned in other threads using the XEP diagnostic utility, but so far I have not been able to use it effectively when the XEP is on a different network subnet from the router.
Good luck!