This is the first time I have bought and used a display with 6 display outputs (Win7). It is so fast that it boots and loads Watchpoint in a few seconds. Which is great!
However I too get an incorrect IP address of 169.254.231.114 displaying in Watchpoint. Which can mean that there are other adapters connected/configured as Jim states, but this is not the case here.
My production laptop (Win8) is connected directly with ethernet cable. I can ping to the correct IP of 192.168.0.102 successfully. Therefore I came to same conclusion as noted by Jonas that it is starting before Windows has completed. Also because once the display software is up and running showing the wrong IP, I then relaunch it and it finds the correct IP address of 192.168.0.102
If I use a switch between the two computers it finds the correct IP address. However I would prefer not to use a switch for this stand-alone installation if possible.
I therefore tried Jonas' suggestion
, but appending -Delay 3 (or any number) to the shortcut Target makes no difference to the startup time.
"D:/WATCHOUT/WATCHPOINT.EXE" "-delay 10"
NB: without the " " , Windows gives an error indicating that the entry is incorrect, so perhaps the Users Guide screenshot could be updated?
I have added it to the shortcut in the main Start menu as well as the one found in ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Watchout5
This is possibly also related to the issue I have in adding commands to the autostart.txt file (either direct or using the Edit Startup Script from the display file menu.
I want to run this display as a cluster (which I have done many times with previous versions of Watchout and XP) so that it starts the show automatically after booting up and executing the display software. The show is in a folder called Shows inside the folder that contains the Watchpoint.exe
The script I use is below but when I boot the pc the only change is that the display has the line "The show will begin shortly" but it doesn't.
authenticate 1 setLogoString "The show will begin shortly" delay 8000 load "Shows/Performance Today" wait run
Perhaps I am missing something, I also tried ommitting the "Shows/" from the load command.