Quite by chance, I've discovered that TCPIP works (after a fashion) in the simulator without any modifications such as Jon Welfringer's.  I'm using PEP 2.4.23.0.

I was working at a customer's this week and had my laptop connected to the same wireless network as the Prontos (all 9400s, no extenders, Global Cache and NetCom IP-to-Serial converters).  Checking a few code changes in the simulator I was surprised to hear the Denon AVR power up, and found that I had full control over that and the RussSound audio matrix.

It did seem intermittent: sometimes starting the simulator would result in network access and sometimes it wouldn't.  Unfortunately I didn't have time to investigate the particular circumstances any further, but I have since seen the same thing on a second system at another site.

I was aware from Jon's thread that the TCPIP code was already present in the simulator, but I wasn't aware that it was usable in a standard installation.  Has anyone else had experience of this?

Andy

That is news to me. ;-)

I've always had my hack installed so I've not checked if they finally enabled it in the latest version of PEP. That will surely be a welcome addition if they did!

I can only get it to funtion with Jon's hack.

Dream on.

Andy,

Are you sure you don't have Jon's mod in place?

Sorry about the delayed response - been away for a few days.

I've pretty sure I never installed Jon's mod and have no renamed .exe files floating around. If anyone would care to compare, my file versions are:

msf.exe: file version 1.4.3.22125, date created 04 September 2009 12:17:32
appli.exe: date created 28 April 2010 12:19:52

As I mentioned in the first post the connection seems neither robust nor consistent, but I thought it might at least be of interest to some.

Andy

Very interesting.

I have files with the same date/version but a time of 06:19am.

I don't have the hack, and I don't get TCPIP in the sim.

I can send WOL packets from the simulator. Discovered this when I woke my HTPC, by accident, when using the simulator.