Ruida 8445 over LAN not connecting - subnet issue?

[ednisley]

@StuMid

Ruida controllers only support 255.255.255.0 subnets

That is, unfortunately, correct.

A previous discussion may be helpful:

Anyone Know: Has the Ruida Firmware ever been updated to fix their Network Limitation?

Rather than waiting for Ruida to fix their IP Stack, I purchased a tiny $70 Router to sit between the machine and my network. It works great. This effectively puts the Ruida controller on its own isolated Class-C network (192.168.2.0/24) underneath my own Class-B network (172.20.0.0/16). https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNPTW2L2 [Router] I was going to try this with a Raspberry Pi, but Pi’s only have a single ethernet port and this device is smaller and cheaper anyway. It appears to be the per…