Chapter 2b – Installation
02b-WaveCore-Installation
Now that we’ve gone over the process of pre-staging, let’s show it hands on what it would should actually look like. So I’ve gathered everything. I’ve got my controller node on my left side. I’ve got my subordinate node on my right side. I have my AC power for each device set up On each side, I’ve got a network interface cable that I’ve connected to my controller node that I’m gonna use to connect to my laptop.
My laptop doesn’t have a built-in network interface cable. So I have an external network interface adapter. Alternatively, I could use a phone or tablet and connect to the wireless interface with of the WaveCore units. But for this example, we’ll show it via the laptop. First thing that we’d want to do is power up just the controller node.
The reason I’m only gonna power up one of these at a time, if I was connecting these to a DHCP server, obviously that’d be fine. They, it would change its IP address, but by default, these are gonna have the 192.168.0.250. So they’re both gonna have the same identical IP address. If I’m doing it from a static perspective, we can see the power LED goes green right off the bat.
It’s about 90 seconds to go through a full boot. The LED underneath it is our system. We’re gonna see that go green here in a few seconds. And then the next thing that we’re gonna see would be the radio LED that’s gonna flash green. And it’s gonna flash until it finds the subordinate node.
And since we do not have that powered on, it’s gonna continuously flash green until we do power that unit on the link is established, then that LED will go solid green, and then from there the alignment, LED will come on. It would give us more of an idea of visually of what our RSSI value is gonna look like.
So since I have it powered up, my ethernet cable’s plugged in. You’ll notice I left these boxes here from the unboxing video. I’m using that ’cause these will teeter a little bit. So sometimes it just gives it a little bit of stability. Obviously signal going through cardboard box not gonna be difficult at all.
So I just want it there to help balance it so that way if it was to teeter one way or another, it wouldn’t fall over. Just make things a little simpler for me. So now that’s going on, we can see our system, LED is on first steps. I’d want to take connect my network interface adapter to my laptop unless you have one built in and then you would connect your ethernet cable to it from here, since this is a 192.168.0 network, our laptop the network adapter is gonna need to be on a zero network as well.
So I’ll go into either your network adapter. Built in or your external change its network setting so that it’s on a 192.168.0.10 let’s just say it has an IP of a dot 10 for this scenario. As long as it’s different from our units, that’s all that matters and that it’s on the Zero network.
So we’ll show you all the software portion of things here, and in the next portion of the video, this part’s just to give you the physical setup. So from here we’d have everything connected. We changed our network adapter, so we’re all on the same network. I’d open up a browser. I’m gonna address my browser to 192.168.0.250.
From there, I should see the Airvine splash screen. I should have my login. I’d be able to go admin, admin for login and password and be able to connect to this unit. I’m only gonna see the one unit at the moment because the other was not powered on and nothing’s paired up. From here, I can go in. If I wanna change my IP address manually, I can go through and set up the static IP settings.
If it’s gonna be DHCP, I can leave it set along those lines. There’s a few settings we can go through and adjust verify the firmware. And like I said, we’ll go through those steps in the next portion of this video. That’ll follow. Once we have this set, a hundred percent the ready the way we want, assume we do a firmware update.
It’s gonna need a reboot after that. Once that’s rebooted, we can disconnect that ethernet cable. We’re gonna bring that ethernet cable over to this unit. We’re gonna follow those exact same steps. We’ll plug our ethernet cable in. We’ll apply power. We’re gonna set the unit down. We’ve already adjusted our computer.
So if I move my cable over to this unit, I should be able to use that same iP address that I use on my network adapter, no change. Open up a new fresh browser. Go to 192.168.0.250. I’m gonna be talking to this unit Now. Make those same network adjustments, so if it is a static IP that you’re setting them to, or whatever you might need to do, make those adjustments, update the firmware, reboot from there.
If you did change your network, so let’s say you went from a 192.168.0.250 network to, let’s just say it’s a 1, 192.168.1.250 is what you change it to. Obviously, we need to change our network adapter now to be on a one network, make that where it matches, make it one point 10. From there, since these units should be both on the same network now, they should be paired.
You should be seeing all four LEDs lit up. Your radio will be solid. Your alignment, it could vary ’cause it’s gonna depend on the signal strength. But if you’re in a scenario like this, it’s probably gonna be solid green or flashing green of some sort speedwise from there. We can connect back to either unit through the IP address, whether if you change the IP address, it’ll be to the new IP address you assigned it to, or you could always go in through the 2.4 network and that’s always gonna be your avb_ and the MAC address of the unit in particular, unless you go in and change that.
So by default it’s gonna be airvine! to connect to the SSID. Login and password by default are gonna be admin, admin. You can always go in there and change it for your own security, but this is the physical portion of setting up a pre-staging testing. Very quick, very easy, just make sure that these units are gonna work together and if any changes are gonna be needed, you’re not doing it in the field it’s set up ready to go. in the next video we’ll go over some of the software tweaks that we might want to make .
Welcome back. Now we’re gonna take a look at things from the software perspective. I’m currently using a Windows 11 machine. I’m inside of the settings underneath network and internet and the ethernet settings. I do have a, a hub that powers my device, that has a blank ethernet on it, but here is my network adapter that I have plugged in.
As I mentioned, since these by default are using a 192.168.0.250 IP address, we need to make sure that our network adapter is on the same network. So I’ve already edited it. So if you click on the edit button, here’s the settings you want do, you’ll turn on the IP V four, the IP address. Just choose something that’s not the 0.250 and not the gateway, 255.255.255.0 on the subnet mask , gateway, DNS, and just save those settings. That’s gonna make those adjustments so that now you’re on the current network. If you’re using DHCP server, obviously this wouldn’t be applicable.
For this example, this is the, the most steps needed. So I wanna make sure we show this version. So now that’s set. We can go ahead and, and minimize that. In a browser, if we go to 192.168.0.250, you’re gonna see our splash screen. From here. Our default login and password is admin and admin. If I click on login, we’re gonna see just our single controller node, because that’s the only one that we’re plugged into at the moment.
Now there’s gonna be another video that we’ll go through every single screen and kind of show you the details of it. But for now, we’re going to focus on, just making the changes that we need duringthe pre-staging testing. So the configuration section is where we’re gonna make all of our changes under network if we click on it, it’s gonna drop down. Ethernet is where we’re gonna have all of our port based settings. As we mentioned, DHCP is the default. If you wanted to use static, all you gotta do is change the radio button and then you would populate all of the. IP address type settings. So for this example, let’s say that I do wanna make this change.
I’m gonna click on my first part. We’ll go down one digit, so it’s 0.250. By default, we’re gonna make it 0.2 49. So the subordinate node will be 0.250, since it’s that by default.
We will make our adjustments to our subnet mask and our gateway.
And we will click save. Once we save that, anything that gets changed underneath the configuration is gonna require reboot. So it’s gonna give you a warning saying, Hey, network settings are updated, reboot’s gonna be required. So we save those settings, we’re good to go. We’ll go through another version of software settings that’s gonna show us exactly where to update and how to update the firmware, but just so you can visually see it under system.
Firmware update. This is where we’re gonna make our firmware update, but a following video is gonna give us the exact details and step-by-step instructions on how to do that. Since we’ve gone through, we’ve made our changes, we’ve now got a static setup. I’m gonna go ahead. I can do a software reboot.
If I go under operations, system operations, if I scroll down, we have a reboot button, I’ll click on that. We’ll say yes. From here, it’s gonna start the reboot process. I’m gonna pause this video momentarily while it does a reboot, and I’m also gonna power on the subordinate node.
That way we’ll be seeing both nodes once it powers up.