Ethernet

[olbasser]

Have Elite FS 12 and an Elite FS9 that I want to network. . Bought ethernet cable and have units connected but they do not communicate.  Thinking I have bad cable or units have bad connectors.  Any help would be appreciated Thanks

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Back in the earlier days of ethernet we often had to use a crossover cable to connect 2 similar devices.   I'm not sure if that may be your issue.   A standard ethernet cable would not allow the devices to communicate.  

[jdmidwest]

15 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

Back in the earlier days of ethernet we often had to use a crossover cable to connect 2 similar devices.   I'm not sure if that may be your issue.   A standard ethernet cable would not allow the devices to communicate.  

I think the marine stuff uses a different com cable from the normal computer stuff.  May even be serial type connection.  If you had the pinout for the com signals, you could make a custom cable.

[Quillback]

I did not watch this video, but if you do a search on something like "Networking an Elite FS9" there's a whole lot of info out there.

 

[olbasser]

Thanks for the replies.  Believe I have it working, at least the chart side.  Will have to be on water to test sonar.  Just a couple notes if anybody decides to go down this path.  At least with lowrance it is not a plug and play network, there are finder settings in the system that must be set.  Different ones for different configurations.  From my youtube research this is not demonstrated  on any of the feeds.  Lowrance help and support documents have info and settings.  Lastly the marine ethernet cable is a round cable, 6 pin.