Hi, I’m having a bit of trouble with the Starlink app not being able to connect with the starlink dish because the address is being used by Start9. Any ideas on how I can resolve this?
This question seems to require some amount of intimate understanding of how Starlink works.
What does it mean that the Starlink dish address is being used by the server? Do you mean IP address? Don’t you have a separate router that the server and your phone connect to?
Yes, I mean local IP address. Start9 uses 192.168… as does the starlink app. If I switch off the server the local address shows the starlink dish stats, which is what the starlink app reads to show the user if things need realigning, etc. With Start9 running, the starlink stats don’t show up and app doesn’t connect. So there seemed to be a clash.
I temporarily have two wifi networks. I ran out of data syncing to Bitcoin core so I signed up to Starlink (I had a ten day wait otherwise) to speed things up. Currently Start9 is on the old network.
Plugging Starlink in again this morning it’s working fine on the app.
OK, as a mere 80 IQ pleb who doesn’t have your Starlink setup in front of me, I still need to ask questions, clarify things, and explain some things so that you can search/research and get back to me. I’m still not sure everything makes sense to me.
A Starlink App does not have an IP address. A physical network-connected device has an IP address.
Typically you’d have a WAN connection that comes into a Router. The router runs a LAN switch and a WiFi “switch”, letting you plug in ethernet devices and connect WiFi devices. The router, using a DHCP, provisions every connected device with a unique IP address. The router also routes each connected device to each other over the LAN and also out over the WAN.
So what do you mean here?
What I think is going on is that you are using a device, with a Starlink app on it, to connect directly to your Starlink device. How are you doing this? I don’t know, you don’t say. By App, I guess it’s a phone. Which means there’s wifi? But if you’re connecting a server to it, that’s by ethernet or by wifi?
My worry is that you have a device from Starlink that is designed to give internet access to a single device, and that it does not have a router. To confirm or understand this, you’ll have to look at the specs of what you bought or better yet… contact Starlink’s support and find out.
It may be the case you’ll need to buy a router, plug the Starlink device into that router’s WAN port, then run your LAN on that router since your Starlink device has none of this. You’d then be able to connect multiple devices and share internet over multiple devices at the same time.
I’m sure that at 80 you’re still above me. Your knowledge of networking certainly is. Sorry for not being a bit clearer.
I have two WANs and two routers, so two LANS. Basically because of running out of data on the original so deciding (due to current plan limtations etc) to sign up to Starlink, and ultimately will switch. In the transition I have two plans.
My confusion about the IP address arose because typing in the local address on my mac would take me to Starlink settings, which I did for the setup process. When the app on my iPhone stopped connecting I typed in the local address on my mac to check the stats and was taken to the Start9 sever. I wondered if there was a conflict happening which had caused the app to stop connecting. That was probably wrong and it was perhaps just a case of my laptop being on the wrong network.
Whatever caused the apps connection failure, and it has failed twice so far, rebooting the Starlink router fixed it. But it does leave the question of what happens when I switch Start9 over to the Starlink network. If the local mac address takes me to Start9 and it’s the same address for viewing Starlink router stats, then I somehow need to change that.
Anyway, thanks for your reply. I appreciate it.
There’s a couple of other things to define.
“Local address” means, at least to me localhost or 127.0.0.1, this is the local machine and trying to http to it would look up a webserver install on that very machine.
“.local address” would, in StartOS, refer to your server’s uniquely generated adjective-noun.local
I assume by typing the “local address” you mean you were typing in your .local. This would not point to Starlink or anything else. If you keep switch client devices between networks, then you’ll likely need to hard-refresh your browser each time.
Again, each device needs to have it’s own IP address, it needs a router assigning IP addresses via DHCP, and your devices need to be on the same network.
My mistake then. I assumed it was local, but obviously not. It’s new to me, so I’m stumbling my way through. The address was 192.168.100.1
When I entered that to check the starlink stats it took me to the Start9 login, hence I assumed a possible clash. Everything is running fine now, so I won’t touch a thing until I switch over to Starlink.