T+A HVEQ room correction software

Ideally your T+A and your PC use DHCP, allowing for automatic IP assignment and configuration.  In this case both should connect to your home network, not directly.

If your T+A really does not, you probably need to restart your PC to make sure it takes on the T+A network configurations.

Essentially both your PC and T+A need to be on the same subnet or it will attempt to route the packets outside. For instance:

PC : 192.168.1.112

T+A : 10.1.5.42

That won’t work. Nor will 192.168.2.xxx, again, wrong subnet.

Thank you, I'm fairly clueless about IPs and subnets. I thought it was strange to connect directly.

Thank you @erik_squires .

Apparently the T+A doesn't use DHCP. I connected both PC and T+A to a switch, changed the T+A  IP address to be on same subnet as PC and was able to ping and connect it to the software.

I then tried the direct connection and was able to connect once, but the software hung up. I killed the process and was never able to connect again with the direct connection. Went back to both on a switch and it connects fine. O well, hopefully the switch connection will function OK.

Yeay.  So sounds like all you have to do is give it an IP address from your router's group and you can leave it connected. 

In your router, assign your T+A a fixed IP address. Then set that IP address in your T+A device and you can leave it like that forever. :)

I may do that. I probably won't be using the software often, so if addresses change I may just set them as needed. I'm not expecting drastic results, I just figured since the amp had the APM board I might as well use it :)

If your room has issues and the DSP software is good on the unit then you should hear an improvement.

If you use ROON these guys will do a better job (remotely) than the T+A hardware based DSP.

https://accuratesound.ca/

I know next to nothing about DSP, but the APM board on the T+A could be analog, at least the acronym stands for Analog signal Processing Module. I have no idea how this might, or might not differ from DSP. 

I do occasionally use Roon, but it's not my main server. That accurate sound functionality does look interesting.

I didn't realize how problematic my room was until I went through the manual version of the T+A room correction. In the end the T+A room correction involves adjusting three parametric bands between 25 and 200 Hz, so not that much control.

You will need an Ethernet crossover cable if you want to connect the two directly and bypass the switch.

Just use the same IP address you used when connecting via the switch and it will work the same as it did with the switch.

Enjoy!

Thanks @rhtowson.   Of course! I forgot all about cross over cables, it's been a very long time since I've had to use one.  Anyways I was able to run the software using the switch and I dont think the measurements suffered form it.