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WI232 Plus 

Quick Start Guide 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Revision A  September 30, 2015 

Summary of Contents for WI232 Plus

Page 1: ...i WI232 Plus Quick Start Guide Revision A September 30 2015 ...

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Page 3: ...ual or the information contained herein Grid Connect Inc products are not designed intended authorized or warranted for use as components in systems intended for surgical implant into the body or in other applications intended to support or sustain life or in any other application in which the failure of a Grid Connect Inc product could create a situation where personal injury death or severe prop...

Page 4: ...isions The information in this guide may change without notice The manufacturer assumes no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this guide Date Rev Author Comments 09 30 15 A GR Preliminary Release for WI232 Plus ...

Page 5: ...it directly and perform configuration The following sections will detail the steps for basic setup operation of the WI232 Plus unit 1 2 2 Finding the wireless SSID Connect power to the WI232 Plus board By default the Soft AP mode is enabled with a SSID of XpicoWiFi_xxxxxx where xxxxxx are the last six characters of the unique xPico Wi Fi serial number This number is shown on the serial number labe...

Page 6: ...onnect button to establish the connection Once you click on the button you will be prompted to enter the security key The factory default key value is the same for all xPICO devices and can be changed via the configuration interface Enter XPICOWIFI and click the Next button When the connection is made the XPicoWiFi will show a connection ...

Page 7: ...wser and navigate to either xpicowifi lantronix com or 192 168 0 1 http xpicowifi lantronix com This will give you the following prompt Enter the User Name admin and the Password PASSWORD to access the Configuration and Management web pages Both are case sensitive ...

Page 8: ...1 6 Upon entering the correct user name and password you will see the top level status menu Note that the Interface wlan0 shows it is disconnected ...

Page 9: ...ine 1 top center is selected Then click on Configuration near top center The Line 1 Configuration window appears The values shown above are the factory default Match the configuration parameters to your serial device Note if you change a setting a Submit button will appear on the bottom of the window Click Submit to save permanently ...

Page 10: ...f the menu and match the following Note that we are using port 10001 This will be used when we use Teraterm to access the WI232 Plus data port Note Teraterm is a free downloadable terminal emulation program Note if you change a setting a Submit button will appear on the bottom of the window Click Submit to save permanently ...

Page 11: ... range of the device Up to 20 networks sorted by RSSI are shown It reports Network name Service Set Identifier Basic Service Set Identifier Channel number Received Signal Strength Indication and Security Suite Click on the selected network name In the following examples gridconnect has been selected ...

Page 12: ...ect profile is displayed Enter required password and click Apply Clicking on Apply will allow you to try out the settings on the WLAN without saving them to Flash If the settings do not work reboot the device to obtain the original settings ...

Page 13: ...1 11 If the connection was successful the selected WLAN connected profile is displayed ...

Page 14: ...1 12 Click Status to display the summary of the connection information ...

Page 15: ... connection to the WiFi side and the other will make a connection to the Serial side You can test both settings from a single laptop Connect a serial cable from your laptop port to the serial cable on the WI232 Plus module Start up the Teraterm terminal program to open the following window Note the settings shown are for demo purposes Select the TCP IP radio button and configure the window as show...

Page 16: ...adio button Enter the Port number of the connection to the WI232 Plus serial cable Click OK and the terminal window appears with the COM port configuration displayed in the top bar Select the COM window and enter some characters They should appear in the TCP IP window ...

Page 17: ...g with the ENTER key and those characters should appear in the COM window Note Teraterm does not enable echo by default so you won t see your commands as you type them This can be changed by going into the Setup Terminal window and setting the Local Echo button ...

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