HomePlug AV Ethernet Adapter User’s Manual
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2.5 Joining & leaving the Powerline network
[Joining a Powerline network]
When both HP200SA64 adapters already on an existing AVLN and you want a new device
(“joiner”) to join the network, please following these steps below:
1. Press the pushbutton on the ‘joiner’ for less than 3 seconds.
2. Press the pushbutton on any network device for less than 3 seconds, making it the ‘adder’.
You have 1 minute, by default, to press this pushbutton.
3. Wait for connection to complete
The Power LED on both devices will flash at 1-second intervals until the process succeeds
or fails. It will illuminate steadily on success. If an error occurs, the Power LED on the
‘adder’ will flash unevenly until the pushbutton on the ‘adder’ is pressed again or the
‘joiner’ is reset by pressing the pushbutton for more than 10 seconds, as described in
Figure 2.
Figure2. Join the Powerline network
[Leaving a Powerline network]
Press the Simple Connect pushbutton on the device for longer than 10 seconds. Wait a few
seconds for the device to reset and leave the network:
1. Press the pushbutton on the ‘leaver’ for at least 10 seconds. The device will reset and
restart with a random NMK.
2. Wait for reset to complete.
[Join Multiple Devices to a Network]
To add several new devices to an existing network, the process in joining a Powerline
network process must be repeated for each ‘joiner’. This lets you press the ‘adder’
pushbutton once then press each ‘joiner’ pushbutton in turn. If pushbuttons are pressed on
two or more joiners, only the first one will respond. The second will not. This makes timing
important.
Powerline network
Adapter Ⓐ and Ⓑ both on the existing AVLN.
Press NMK button on Ⓑ less e than 3 seconds (Ⓑ is the ‘adder’ )
Press NMK button on Ⓒ less e than 3 seconds (Ⓒ is the ‘joiner’ )
Ⓒ accepts NMK from Ⓑ
Press 3 seconds
❶
❷
Ⓐ
Ⓑ
Ⓒ
Press 3 seconds
The Join operation can be cancelled by pressing the Simple Connect pushbutton on
the first device again, for less than 3 seconds, instead of pressing the pushbutton on
the second device. If you press pushbuttons on three or more devices, only the first
two will respond. The others will not.