MediaTek LinkIt™ Smart 7688 Developer's Guide
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4.5.2.
Local Domain
The board uses a local domain called
mylinkit.local
and your computer needs to support mDNS to
use this local domain. For Windows 8 and later, Mac OS X and Linux, the mDNS is supported.
However, if you’re using Windows 7, you’ll need to install
computer to discover LinkIt Smart 7688‘s IP address within a local domain name.
If you are using a virtual machine, please note that mDNS may have problems reaching the guest
OS network. In this case, please use the host OS browser to perform the task in the next section –
connecting to the Web UI. You can also use
ping
utility in the host OS to query the IP address of
mylinkit.local and use IP address in the guest OS.
4.5.3.
Connecting to the Web UI
LinkIt Smart 7688 Web UI allows you to configure system information, upgrade firmware, perform
device reset and change between Wi-Fi AP and Station mode and more. The following steps apply
to Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
1)
Power on LinkIt Smart development board by using any USB power source, for example
your computer and a micro USB cable. LinkIt Smart 7688 Duo is used in Figure 14.
Figure 14 Connecting LinkIt Smart development board to a computer
Make sure you connect the cable to the Power (PWR) connector, not the USB host (HOST)
connector near the MPU reset button. The green ON LED (Power on) will light up solid first,
followed by a blink per second from the red Wi-Fi LED (boot loader initialization). Then,
after about 5 seconds, the device boot up starts and the red LED will light up solid for
about 30 seconds.
After boot up, the Wi-Fi LED turns off. This means the system is ready to accept Wi-Fi
connection and the steps are described next. The following Figure 15 shows the Wi-Fi LED
status and system state:
