GL-INET Collie, User Manual

Page 1: ...Collie GL X300B USER MANUAL ...

Page 2: ...ssword Setting 5 3 Admin Panel 6 2 INTERNET 7 2 1 Cable 8 1 DHCP 9 2 Static 10 3 PPPoE 10 2 2 Repeater 11 2 3 3G 4G Modem 12 AT Command 14 3 WIRELESS 15 4 CLIENTS 17 5 UPGRADE 18 5 1 Online Upgrade 18 5 2 Upload Firmware 19 1 Official OpenWrt LEDE firmware 20 2 Compile your own firmware 20 5 3 Auto Upgrade 20 6 FIREWALL 21 6 1 Port Forwards 22 6 2 Open Ports on Router 23 6 3 DMZ 23 7 VPN 24 8 RS48...

Page 3: ... APPLICATIONS 35 9 1 Plug ins 35 9 2 Remote Access 36 Cloud Management 37 DDNS 37 9 3 Captive Portal 38 10 MORE SETTINGS 38 10 1 Admin Password 38 10 2 LAN IP 39 10 3 Time Zone 40 10 4 MAC Clone 41 10 5 Custom DNS Server 42 10 6 Network Mode 43 10 7 Revert Firmware 44 ...

Page 4: ...Page 1 45 1 Getting Started with GL iNet Collie Model GL X300B ...

Page 5: ...into the power port of the router Make sure you are using a standard DC 12V 1 0 A power adapter Otherwise it may cause malfunction Note Hot plug for SIM card is not supported If you want to use please insert SIM card before powering on the router ...

Page 6: ... devices to the local area network LAN of the router You cannot access the Internet currently In order to connect to the Internet please finish the setup procedures below and then follow Internet to set up an Internet connection 1 Connect via LAN Connect your device to the LAN port of the router via Ethernet cable ...

Page 7: ...ith the following format GL X300B XXX 1 3 Access the Web Admin Panel Open a web browser we recommend Chrome Firefox and visit http 192 168 8 1 You will be directed to the initial setup of the web Admin Panel 1 Language Setting You need to choose the display language of the Admin Panel Currently our routers support English 简体中文 繁體中文 Deutsch Franç ais Españ ol Italiano 日本語 and 한국어 ...

Page 8: ...Page 5 45 2 Admin Password Setting There is no default password for the Admin Panel You have to set your own password which must be at least 5 characters long Then click Submit to proceed ...

Page 9: ...web Admin Panel and the embedded Linux system It will not change your Wi Fi password 3 Admin Panel After the initial setup you will enter the web Admin Panel of the router It allows you to check the status and manage the settings of the router ...

Page 10: ...Page 7 45 2 INTERNET There are total 3 types of connection method that you can use to access the Internet Cable Repeater 3G 4G Modem ...

Page 11: ...he modem or main router via Ethernet cable to access the Internet Before plugging the Ethernet cable into the WAN port of the router you can click Use as LAN to set the WAN port as a LAN port That is useful when you are using the router as a repeater As a result you can have one more LAN port ...

Page 12: ... of the router The information of your connection will be shown on the Cable section DHCP is the default protocol You can click Modify to change the protocol 1 DHCP DHCP is the default and most common protocol It doesn t require any manual configuration ...

Page 13: ...as IP address Gateway Netmask manually Change it according to your needs and then click Apply 3 PPPoE PPPoE is required by many Internet Service Providers ISP Generally your ISP will give you a modem and provide you a username and password that you needed when you are creating the Internet connection Under PPPoE protocol enter your username and password then click Apply ...

Page 14: ...ervice Provider mode by default which means that the router will create its own subnet and act as a firewall to protect you from the public network In Repeater section click Scan to search for the available wireless networks nearby Choose a SSID from the drop down list and enter its password You can also enable the Remember button to save the current chose wireless network Finally click Join ...

Page 15: ...our carrier click Auto Setup to create the connection Note Some 3G 4G modems will be recognized as Tethering connection You can also click Manual Setup to set up manually In General you can set up by the three basic parameters below Click Apply to connect Device Please choose dev cdc wdm0 qmi or dev ttyUSB3 Service Type Indicate the service of your SIM card APN Confirm with your SIM card carrier ...

Page 16: ...d to set it manually However if you have this info please input it Pincode Username and Password Generally these are not necessary for an unlocked SIM card However if you have a locked SIM card please consult your service provider It is connected when the IP address of your SIM card shows up ...

Page 17: ...AT Command Shortcut There are several pre configured AT commands that you can use directly If you want to run your own AT command choose Manual command AT Command The place where you can input AT command For the list of AT command please refer to the AT command manual of the built in modem Port The default port for AT command is dev ttyUSB2 ...

Page 18: ...y Show or hide the SSID Wi Fi Mode Wi Fi protocol standards It supports 802 11 b g n It is suggested to use default 802 11b g n or select Wi Fi mode based on your demand Bandwidth The bandwidth is the Wi Fi channel frequency coverage range Select 20 40MHz or 40MHz or 20MHz based on your demand Channel The router will not choose the best channel itself You need to choose a channel manually If your ...

Page 19: ...Page 16 45 Click Modify to change the settings of the wireless network ...

Page 20: ...connected clients in CLIENTS You can see their name IP MAC address Click the button on the right to block any unwanted client Click the button on the right corner to enable real time speed and traffic statistics This requires higher CPU load ...

Page 21: ...E to check any available update and upgrade the firmware 5 1 Online Upgrade You can find the current firmware version here If your router is connected to the Internet it will check for the newer firmware version available for download ...

Page 22: ... during firmware upgrade If you keep the settings and encounter problems after the upgrade please reset the router 5 2 Upload Firmware Click Local Upgrade to upload a firmware file to the router Simply drag and drop your firmware file to the area indicated ...

Page 23: ...n versions of OpenWrt LEDE firmware with Luci admin page only testing Beta version of GL iNet OpenWrt LEDE firmware 2 Compile your own firmware You can compile your own firmware and flash to the router Please refer to https github com gl inet imagebuilder Note If you uploaded an incompatible firmware thus bricked the router please use Uboot to re install the correct firmware 5 3 Auto Upgrade You c...

Page 24: ...Page 21 45 6 FIREWALL In FIREWALL you can set up firewall rules like port forwarding open port and DMZ ...

Page 25: ...d you can choose TCP UDP or both TCP and UDP External Zone The zone to which hosts will be connecting External Ports The numbers of external ports You can enter a specific port number or a range of service ports E g 100 300 Internal Zone The zone to which the incoming connection will be redirected Internal IP The IP address assigned by the router to the device which needs to be accessed remotely I...

Page 26: ... name of the rule which can be specified by the user Port The port number that you want to open Protocol The protocol used you can choose TCP UDP or both TCP and UDP Status Activate of Deactivate the rule 6 3 DMZ DMZ allows you to expose one computer to the Internet so that all the inbounds packets will be redirected to the computer you set Click DMZ and enable Open DMZ Input the internal IP addre...

Page 27: ... have pre installed VPN server and client in OpenVPN and WireGuard Shadowsocks is not a default function and you need to install packages in Plug ins Please refer to the links below for the detailed setup instruction OpenVPN WireGuard ...

Page 28: ...Page 25 45 Internet Kill Switch Starting from firmware version 3 100 Please refer to the links below for the detailed setup instruction Internet Kill Switch ...

Page 29: ...Page 26 45 Starting from firmware version 3 022 users can define VPN routing policies Please refer to the links below for the detailed setup instruction VPN Policies ...

Page 30: ...ebug Config Info Modbus This function can perform read and write operations on terminal devices that support Modbus protocol It requires users to have a certain knowledge of Modbus protocol Device ID Device ID is 01 by default mostly When multiple terminal devices are connected and used at the same time separate connected devices need to be set with different ID numbers Function Code Function code...

Page 31: ...he dev ttyS0 in the interface refers to the name of the RS485 driver and the name generally does not need to be modified Speed It refers to the baud rate which can be modified according based on the RS485 device Mode Modify it to make sure it s consistent with the connected 485 terminal device Mode info can be found on RS485 device manual Timeout ms Information receiving timeout period set accordi...

Page 32: ...Client Router acts as a TCP client After router connecting to the TCP server the TCP server can send commands to obtain data from the RS485 terminals TCP server Router RS485 Device RS485 Device RS485 Bus RS485 Device Tcpc mode Send command Receive data TCPS TCP Server ...

Page 33: ... If it is in a wide area network environment the router needs to have a public IP and the address information should fill in the public IP TCP Client Router RS485 Device RS485 Device RS485 Bus RS485 Device Tcps mode Send command Receive data UDP If it is in a local area network environment fill in the address information of the router gateway IP If it is in a wide area network environment the rout...

Page 34: ...erminal device connected to the router is a smart meter The 01040000000271CB in the figure is a command to obtain voltage data Please enter the correct command according to the manual of the connected terminals The input command is in string format and the program will convert the command to hexadecimal and send to the terminal devices It ll convert the obtained hexadecimal data sentence into a st...

Page 35: ...ction is RS485 to MQTT It can be used to connect to the Cloud platform After connection the Cloud platform or other clients that subscribe to the RS485 publishing topic will be able to obtain the data of the RS485 terminal devices ...

Page 36: ...se Theme B Subscribe to the topic A Release Theme B Connect to MQTT server test free online MQTT server https www emqx io cn mqtt public mqtt5 broker Note This server is for testing only and has no privacy protection Any device can publish and subscribe to topics on it Do not use in production Web page configuration is as follows click Start after configuration ...

Page 37: ...Page 34 45 Use the online MQTT client to configure the following to obtain data https www emqx io cn mqtt mqtt websocket toolkit ...

Page 38: ...gure is a command to obtain voltage data Please enter the correct command according to the manual of the connected terminals 9 APPLICATIONS 9 1 Plug ins Plug ins allows you to manage OpenWrt packages You can install or remove any package Remember to click Update whenever you access this packages repository ...

Page 39: ...Page 36 45 9 2 Remote Access ...

Page 40: ...sion or above it is a default function other 3 0 version need to install packages in Plug ins For the details please refer to Cloud DDNS DDNS Dynamic Domain Name Service is a service used to map a domain name to the dynamic IP address of a network device You can remotely access your router by url though this function In 3 021 version or above it is a default function other 3 0 version need to inst...

Page 41: ...access a web page before access the internet Only support 3 022 version or above For the setup guidance please refer to Set a Captive portal 10 MORE SETTINGS 10 1 Admin Password Change the password of the web Admin Panel which must be at least 5 characters long You have to input your current password in order to change it ...

Page 42: ... 45 10 2 LAN IP LAN IP is the IP address that you use to connect to this router The default IP address of GL iNet router is 192 168 8 1 If it conflicts with the IP address of your main router you can change it ...

Page 43: ...Page 40 45 10 3 Time Zone The time of the router s activities will be recorded according to the router time Therefore choosing the time zone of your location is recommended ...

Page 44: ...ent to the router It is used especially in hotel when the network checks your MAC address For example if you got your smartphone registered on the network you can clone the MAC address of your smartphone to the router so that the router can also connect to the network ...

Page 45: ...l Disable this option if the captive portal of your network cannot be resolved Override DNS Settings for All Clients Enabling this option will capture DNS request from all connected clients DNS over TLS from Cloudflare Cloudflare DNS over TLS uses the TLS security protocol for encrypting DNS queries which helps increase privacy and prevent eavesdropping Manual DNS Server Settings Input a custom DN...

Page 46: ...router in Access Point Extender or WDS mode If you want to access the web Admin Panel in this case you have to use the IP address assigned by the main router to the GL iNet router Router Create your own private network The router will act as NAT firewall and DHCP server Access Point Connect to a wired network and broadcast a wireless network Extender Extend the Wi Fi coverage of an existing wirele...

Page 47: ...Page 44 45 10 7 Revert Firmware Revert the router to factory default settings All your settings applications and data will be erased ...

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