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  • 05 Dec 2014 8:29 AM
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    Reply # 3164687 on 3126832
    Tim Sperry (Administrator)

    Ok, I have mine set up and flashed with firmware to 3.0

    When I look for wireless connections I see it as BroadbandHamnet-20v3

    I have tried to connect with laptop and straight Cat5 cable to use the web interface but I am unable to get in.

    Do you connect to the LAN or WAN ports?

     Are you using a straight through cable or a crossover cable?
  • 06 Dec 2014 9:41 AM
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    Reply # 3165163 on 3126832
    Russ Chung
    Tim, I used a straight through cable and connected my laptop to one of the LAN ports on the node. Make sure that your ethernet connection is set to use DHCP, disable all of the other connection types (such as wifi and VPN) and then make sure that your ethernet connection has a lease on an IP address in the 10.x.x.x range. Open a browser, and enter the URL "http://localnode:8080". The login name is "root" and the default password is "hsmm". Russ
  • 07 Dec 2014 7:55 PM
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    Reply # 3165742 on 3126832
    Tim Sperry (Administrator)

    Russ,

    Thanks for your help - I did what you recommended plus used IE instead of Chrome

     Now can I connect an IP camera to the node using one of the LAN ports and then do some settings need to be changed in the setup?

    Once a camera is connected what do we use to view the camera?

    Tim
  • 07 Dec 2014 10:46 PM
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    Reply # 3165809 on 3126832
    Russ Chung
    Tim,


    I haven’t connected a camera to my node, so I can’t give you firsthand knowledge. John Emig and Chris Doering have connected Foscam IP cameras to their nodes. You will have to ask them the model numbers of the Foscam cameras that they’re using. You connect the camera to a 5 volt power supply and to a LAN port on the router and it obtains a IP address via DHCP. Foscam supplies a setup utility which you use to locate and configure the camera. Then you open a web browser, enter the camera’s IP address and you can control the camera and view what the camera sees. The reason that this is a good mesh network application is that you can open a browser anywhere on the mesh and connect to the camera even though it is attached to a different node.


    The default setting for a mesh node allows up to five devices to connect to the LAN port of the node at a time. As long as you don’t need to have more than five devices connected, there is no need to change the setup of your node.


    Russ
    Last modified: 07 Dec 2014 10:49 PM | Russ Chung
  • 08 Dec 2014 7:06 AM
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    Reply # 3166133 on 3126832
    Jim Reeder

    Ok, I'm giving it a try.  Router on the way.  Our club president has mentioned BBHN a few times but no one has been interested.  You all gave me a reason to be interested.  At least when I get it running I'll have someone in town to check it out with.
  • 08 Dec 2014 4:58 PM
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    Reply # 3166504 on 3126832
    John Emig

    Tim:

    Russ's comment is right on. What I did, which made it really simple for me, was to connect both the camera and computer to the LAN ports of the node I plan to dedicate to the camera. Using the IP Camera Tool that comes with the camera I got into the camera and obtained the IP address of the camera (make sure it's a static address - as in don't check the DHCP box). Once I had the address, and as long as the camera is connected to that node, I was able to open up the camera from any other node by just typing the IP address in the web browser. When you do that the sign-in box for the camera will pop up and you just sign in and, presto, there's the camera controls and what it is seeing. Any questions, feel free to ask.

    John Emig
  • 08 Dec 2014 8:51 PM
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    Reply # 3166618 on 3126832
    Tim Sperry (Administrator)
    John,

    Yhatzee - I got it

    Camera I had on hand set up and working now.

    The biggest problem I had was figuring out the default gateway but got it all dialed in and viewing camera on laptop.

    Now I need more routers!!

    Thanks,

    Tim
  • 11 Dec 2014 6:31 AM
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    Reply # 3168268 on 3126832
    Jim Reeder

    Router arrived yesterday.  Flashed firmware this morning.  Everything went as described at Broadband-Hamnet.  I guess a camera is the next step...
  • 11 Dec 2014 10:39 PM
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    Reply # 3168908 on 3126832
    Tim Sperry (Administrator)

    1 More router on the way and just ordered 2 Yagi antennas.

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/331057775246?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

    What are you using for feed line and connectors? 

    Tim
  • 12 Dec 2014 1:26 PM
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    Chris Doering (Administrator)

    Seems like you guys are having some success. I've been slighting challenged and requested some personal tutoring by Elmer Russ. If all goes well I'll have two nodes up tomorrow sometime (Sat Dec 13).
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