Blender Benchmark CLI won't run if no access to Internet (but all the data is in the right place)?

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I’ve noticed that with Blender Benchmark (CLI or UI), if you run it and download the data, then try to run it again with your internet access off, it terminates, saying:

ERROR: There was an error while communicating with the server.
ERROR: communication error: Get https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/metadata/: dial tcp: lookup opendata.blender.org: no such host

Is it possible to address this issue? There are genuine needs to running this program without having it phoning home.

EDIT: Just to be more clear on this, these were the steps I did:

  • On a machine with internet access, I ran the benchmark to download Blender and all the scenes.
  • Finding where this downloaded data was located, I copied that onto a machine with no internet access.
  • Running the benchmark again, like this:
benchmark-launcher-cli benchmark bmw27 --blender-version 2.81a --device-type CPU --json --verbosity 3

fails because the launcher needs to contact the blender site on launch, which is not desired behaviour.

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The benchmark client doesn’t ship with any of the benchmark scenes or even blender versions to actually run the benchmarks, it grabs those from the internet, i’m not aware of a complete offline version.

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Hi @LazyDodo I downloaded the client and the scenes on one machine, and then transferred all of that to another machine. This second machine has all the data, just no internet access.

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I added some instructions on how to run the benchmark offline here https://opendata.blender.org/about/.

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Thanks! I actually do this already as my workaround and was hoping the executable would work. Anyway, thanks again.