NRP series - not able to determine IP address in a network without DHCP

Question

I followed these steps to determine an IP address to my NRP series sensor. Unfortunately without no success as I can not find the sensor at all.

(extraction of the sensor's manual)

Troubleshooting for peer-to-peer connections

1. Allow a waiting time, especially if the computer was used in a network before.

2. Check that only the main network adapter is active on the computer. If the computer has more than one network interfaces, explicitly disable all other network interfaces if you plan to utilize a peer-to-peer connection to the power sensor.

3. Check that the remaining main network adapter has been assigned an IP address starting with 169.254. The IANA (Internet assigned numbers authority) has reserved the range 169.254.0.0 to 169.254.255.255 for the allocation of automatic private IP addresses (APIPA). Addresses from this range are guaranteed to cause no conflicts with any routable IP address.

4. Try to establish a connection to the power sensor with both the default hostname and the hostname extended with .local, for example: nrp6an-101441 nrp6an-101441.local

Are there some additional steps I could go?

Answer

Sometimes there is a conflict with IP V6 settings.

Please disable IP V6 on your computer temporarily.

Another workaround is to connect the sensor via USB and then use the App "Configure Network Sensor" of the NRP Toolkit.

However, this assumes to have an adequate cable available.