July 24, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, MartinCoetzee said: Has anyone had this problem ? Hi Martin, @plonkster will soon tell you if I am wrong, The Asus acording to me is a windows plug and play adapter, CCGX might not be compatible with that. The following 2 options will work. I guess ccgx has the "Drivers" for these. Yesterday we used a victron wifi module that plugs into the VE-direct port, but I can not find that on any spares list right now.
July 24, 20197 yr 1 minute ago, Jaco de Jongh said: CCGX might not be compatible with that It all depends on the chip inside that thing. The new things are so thin, they don't even have firmware on the dongle, it has to be loaded onto the dongle by the driver! So the firmware has to be on the CCGX, and as you might imagine, you can't ship firmware/drivers for every imaginable device, and many of the cheap ones are pretty much windows only. The one Victron sells is one known to work, but it's pretty much the same as many on the market... it just saves you the trouble of figuring it out for yourself. Internally it is some kind of realtek chip. Usually the rtl8192 is the one to aim for. There is also an 8188 one... that one is much more painful to work with. It's unfortunately impossible to tell you which one you've got. If you have a Linux computer, you can plug it in and then type "lsusb" in a terminal to see what it really is, but on windows it's all cleverly hidden in the name of user friendliness. 🙂
July 24, 20197 yr Author 3 hours ago, plonkster said: It all depends on the chip inside that thing. The new things are so thin, they don't even have firmware on the dongle, it has to be loaded onto the dongle by the driver! So the firmware has to be on the CCGX, and as you might imagine, you can't ship firmware/drivers for every imaginable device, and many of the cheap ones are pretty much windows only. The one Victron sells is one known to work, but it's pretty much the same as many on the market... it just saves you the trouble of figuring it out for yourself. Internally it is some kind of realtek chip. Usually the rtl8192 is the one to aim for. There is also an 8188 one... that one is much more painful to work with. It's unfortunately impossible to tell you which one you've got. If you have a Linux computer, you can plug it in and then type "lsusb" in a terminal to see what it really is, but on windows it's all cleverly hidden in the name of user friendliness. 🙂 This one is on victrons list of compatibles but i cannot get it to work, i am busey with 3 installs and swopped ccgx cables and dongles and still no luck. starting to feel stupid or as if i am missing something very simple. used a older dongle from another up and running site and it worked first time.
July 24, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, MartinCoetzee said: victrons list of compatibles Hi Martin, may I please ask you for a link to this list. Would be interesting to see everything on there.
July 24, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, MartinCoetzee said: used a older dongle from another up and running site and it worked first time Manufacturers sometimes change the chip without changing the USB id. Work around it in the (windows only) drivers.
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