Hi,I have setup Astroberry on my RPi and set it to connect via ethernet cable to my laptop running linux. So the RPi gets assigned a 169.254.x.x address. If I enable the Wifi on the RPi and connect it to my home Wifi I am able to connect to the INDI webmanager from Kstars/Ekos profile. But if I disable the Wifi on the RPi so its only connected via ethernet cable to my laptop, I cant get Ekos to find the INDI webmanager. So my guess is that the webmanager is NOT listening to requests from the 169.254.x.x address??How can I get this fixed please?

The 169.254.x.x IP range is for multicast only and it is not a valid IP range for ethernet connections. It looks like your RPi doesn't get an IP address from your router. Whether that is a router or an RPi configuration issue, I don't know.

I have deliberately disabled the Wifi connectivity on RPi as it gets flaky signal when I set it up in the garden.
I am able to communicate between laptop & RPi via this 169.254.x.x. IP using ethernet cable. eg. Ekos is able to connect to INDI server on port 7624. So I am unsure why the webserver is not able to traverse this??

Hope that this clarifies?

Any firewall involved? The web manager uses another port that needs to be open.

No. But the latest update is that it seems to work sporadically