Airborne Innovations
Picoradio Manual
2.5 LEDs
A number of status LEDs provide information on the radio status.
The RSSI LEDs provide a bar graph indication of relative signal strength (and if illuminating in a repeating 1,2,3
sequence indicate the radio is searching for a signal).
3 Usage and Configuration
The radio has its own IP address.
By default this can be accessed from the LAN ethernet port (ETH0 / J3), which is the right angle 9 pin connector..
The default IP address from Microhard is 192.168.168.1. By convention for Airborne Innovations systems we also
use IP addresses 192.168.1.201 (base station) and 192.168.1.210 (airborne). You can of course change these using
Microhard's web interface.
When the radios are first powered up the default user and password are both 'admin'. Microhard's firmware insists
on changing the password with a minimum of 5 characters so we change it to '99999'
To communicate with the radio it is easiest to set your PC to a fixed IP address such as 192.168.168.100.
You can then access Microhard's web page which allows changing radio settings.
To get two radios to communicate with our default configuration, we make these changes:
Base station IP address: 192.168.1.201
Base station mode: 'Slave'
Remote unit IP address: 192.168.1.210
Remote unit mode: 'Master'
WAN port set to bridging mode.
3.1 Troubleshooting connections
For a successful connection the following conditions must exist:
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Radios set up with different IP addresses (typically on the same subnet)
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One radio set for 'Master' mode (typically airborne/remote side)
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One radio set for 'Slave' mode (typically the base station)
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PWR
RED
3.3V
CPU
BLU
RSSI1
GRN
RSSI2
GRN
RSSI3
GRN
RX
GRN
TX
RED
ETH1
WAN
AMB
ETH0
LAN
AMB
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