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Connecting the Wi-Fi Scanner
To integrate FuzzyScan Wi-Fi scanner into your application, the simplest way
is to use Cino
WaveCentre
together with the scanners. Once you installed
WaveCentre into your desired host machine, it can create a virtual COM port
for each connected Wi-Fi scanner corresponding to its IP address. All
connected Wi-Fi scanners will work as
local serial devices
of the remote
host.
Before you connect the Wi-Fi scanner to a remote host, you have to create a
correct Wi-Fi profile for the Wi-Fi connection. There are two ways to create
Wi-Fi profiles. The easy way is to use the scanner “
SETUP
” to create a new
profile. If you want to create multiple profiles at the same time, you may
consider using Cino FuzzyScan Wi-Fi PowerTool.
Once you collected all required information for network setting, please follow
the steps below to establish the connection between the Wi-Fi scanner and
the remote host.
Install the WaveCentre into your host machine then double click its icon to
launch WaveCentre.
Find out the IP address of the remote host and decide the listen port of
WaveCentre. By default, the listen port is 6300. You can change the port
number to meet your WLAN setting.
Ensure the scanner is activated within radio range then enter “SETUP”
from the Desktop main menu. Select “
Wi-Fi Profiles
”, then press “
New
”
(L key) to add a Wi-Fi Profile. Select “
Auto Search
”, the scanner will
perform “Searching” to find out all discoverable Access Points and
Independent Wireless Hosts, and provide you a list.
For “Infrastructure” mode, select a suitable AP which is able to connect to
your remote host then complete the profile setting. If you want to build a
peer-to-peer connection by using Ad-Hoc mode, please select your
desired remote host then complete the profile setting as well.
Once you completed the Wi-Fi profile setting, the scanner will try to
connect the remote host automatically. You will see the “
Connecting
to ……
” screen, the scanner will give continuous short clicks and the link
indicator of scanner will flash blue quickly during connecting process.
If your Wi-Fi setting is correct and there is no mistake during link process,
the link process will be completed and you will hear 4 beeps in ascending
tone. You will see the link indicator of scanner giving
1 blue blink per 2.5
seconds
to indicate the scanner is in radio-connected state.
If you have difficulty to make a successful link, please go to “TOOLS” to
run “Link Diagnostic” to get the detailed report of each link step for
locating problem.
