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Quick Start

Step-by-step guide to configure the gateway to forward data to remote server

Prerequisites

• Prepare a power adapter 5V/2A. Please note the the current 2A is required
• Wire ethernet cable between gateway and your router. Don't wire the ethernet cable to your laptop directly.
• Please use the micro USB cable as power cable. Wire the cable to power adapter. Don't wire the cable to Laptop directly. It may cause weak power. It means the gateway connected to LAN network if yellow LED around the ethernet port is on.
• Install gateway configure tool at your laptop

Configure connectivity

Connect to the AB gateway via WiFi or Ethernet cable and configure its WiFi/Ethernet connectivity.

• How to connect? - The AB gateway can connect with Ethernet cable. But requires Gateway config tool 📱 mobile app for configuration if connect to WiFi fist time
• Internet required? - The AB gateway can operate on both Internet-connected and LAN networks.

Configure via Ethernet connectivity

We recommend connect the gateway using ethernet cable.

• Connect the AB gateway to the router using an Ethernet cable
• Open the Gateway configure tool on your laptop
• Click "Scan" button to find the gateways on the LAN network

Configure via WiFi

You can also configure the gateway uses WiFi with Gateway config tool📱 mobile app. Android only.

See configure WiFi parameters with smartconfig feature.

How To Test

Configure data capture and forwarding

Forward data to MQTT broker

We provide testing MQTT broker mqtt.bconimg.com for your testing. Don't use it in your production environment.

• Change application settings for gateway and save
  • Application Type: MQTT Client
  • MQTT Host: mqtt.bconimg.com
  • MQTT Port: 1883
  • Publish Topic: your-topic
• Select Save to proceed
• Download and install data viewer software
• Fill the form with the parameters in first steps
• View the data from gateway

Forward data to HTTP server

To quickly validate that data is correctly received on the target computer on the host network, it is possible to run gw-http-box standalone to listen for HTTP POSTs on port 8000 as follows:

• Install Node.js
• Git and console are required
• Run command in the console

git clone https://github.com/aprilbrother/gw-http-box.git
npm install
npm start

• Change application settings for gateway and save
  • Application Type: HTTP Client
  • HTTP Host: The IP of your laptop, e.g. 192.168.1.123
  • HTTP Port: 8000
  • URI: /
• Select Save to proceed

If the gateway is correctly configured and at least one BLE device is advertising in range, gateway data should appear in the console.