[Gallifreyboy]

Long time since I have been active here, about 5 years. The astronomy bug has bitten again and have dusted off some of the equipment.
I have updated the Vixen SXW Star Book to the latest firmware 2.7
Entering the date correctly i.e Aug 2017 the Star Book freezes, no buttons respond after you hit OK, I thought I had corrupted the update so redid it 3 more times, same problem, I could still do the date at setup before I hit OK and on a whim entered the year as 2015 and it works normally, I have got up to 2016 and it works but 2017 will not.
No worries I thought, I never liked the star book very much any way, I read some people have got it working via sky safari and thought that would overcome the problem.
The instructions seemed easy enough to follow, not as straight forward as the skywire or skyfi option as vixen has a non-standard serial port but get a wireless router hooked up and LAN cable to your Star Book (cable in where it says LAN on the bottom of the Star Book)
In sky safari the setup IP address for Star Book entered 169.254.1.1
Port Number 80 (I read that is what it should be)
The wireless router is the TPLINK AC750 travel router (can be run off 5V USB outlet)
I have configured the LAN address to 169.254.1.10 although have tried 169.254.1.100 and 169.254.1.2 without any success.
So far this has been very frustrating so anybody who could help would be greatly appreciated (mainly the sky safari issue but including the 2017 bug)