H and D Wireless SPB800 User Manual

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HDA800 Evaluation Kit

SPB800 Serial to WiFi solution

Users Manual HDA800 Evaluation Kit SPB800 Serial to WiFi solution

Revision

Revision date

Description

PA1

2010-11-30

First Issue

PA4

2010-12-17

Updated for revision R2B of PC Connection Board

PA5

2011-01-12

Added XPLAIN example

PB1

2011-02-04

Updates for release 1.1.3

PC1

2011-06-09

Updates for release 1.2

PC2

2012-02-01

Channel range updated

Revision History

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CONTENTS

1 EVALUATION KIT CONTENT .................................................................................................. 4

2 PREPARATIONS ................................................................................................................... 4

2.1 USB driver installation .................................................................................................................................. 4

3 CONNECTING THE KIT .......................................................................................................... 5

4 SPB800 FIRMWARE ............................................................................................................. 6

5 COMMANDS ........................................................................................................................ 6

5.1 Serial Port Commands .................................................................................................................................. 9

6 EXAMPLE 1, SERIAL PORT WIRELESS LAN ADAPTER ............................................................ 11

6.1 Web Configuration ...................................................................................................................................... 14

7 FIRMWARE UPGRADE ........................................................................................................ 16

8 KNOWN ISSUES ................................................................................................................. 17

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1 Evaluation Kit Content

 SPB800-E, SPB800 Evaluation board with a 10pos. header socket, to allow easy plug in.  PC connection board  USB cable  USB Flash memory with documentation and reference code

2 Preparations

To communicate with the SPB800E from a PC you need the PC connection board that convert the SPB800E’s UART signal to USB or RS-232 and provide 3.3V power to the module.

On the PC you need a serial communications application, such as TeraTerm or HyperTerm. TeraTerm can be downloaded from http://www.ayera.com/teraterm/download.cfm

2.1 USB driver installation

If you are running Windows 7, it usually recognize the serial to USB chip and installs the drivers at first connection. For other operating system there are driver software provided on the USB memory under the directory called “USB_driver”

If you cannot find the appropriate driver for your system or having other problems with the USB driver please seek more information at http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

Remember to set the two jumpers on the PC connection in their right position to enable USB as serial port. If you rather use the RS-232 port the jumpers should be in the left position. See Figure 2-1.

Figure 2-1: Port selection jumpers

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3 Connecting the Kit

Connect the Evaluation Kit as follows:

1. Plug in the SPB800E into the 10-pin header.

2. Connect the PC Connection board with the USB cable to a USB port on a PC. The USB powers the

board so no other power source is required.

Or alternatively:

Power the PC Connection board from an AC/DC adapter with between 5V – 9V DC output and plus on the sleeve and negative on the centre pin. Connect with a serial cable to the PC.

3. Start a serial communications application such as TeraTerm on PC1.

In TeraTerm, select “Setup->Serial Port…” in the menu and configure the serial port according to the figure below.

Note that the port number used to communicate with the SPB800E (COM6 in the figure above) might be different in some environments, so make sure to try another one if COM6 fails (see figure below) The assigned port can also be found in the Windows Device Manager, under Ports (COM & LPT).

4. Press the reset button on the PC Connection Card to restart the SPB800E

5. In the TeraTerm window a series of dots appears one every second

6. Hit “Return” in the TeraTerm terminal within 5 seconds from the first dot to keep the SPB800E in

configuration mode. A $ prompt should show in the terminal.

Now you are ready to configure the SPB800E for one of the examples

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4 SPB800 Firmware

The SPB800 can be programmed with two different firmwares for different modes.

 One where the host is unaware of the SPB800, which forwards the data it receives on the serial

port onto a TCP socket. The firmware for this mode is called spb800-serial_to_wifi_rxxx.hlf. This is the firmware on the SPB800 when it is delivered in the HDA800 kit.

 The other, where the host is aware of the SPB800 and uses the oWL-pico API to configure and

control the SPB800, called spb800-pserver_rxxx.hlf, where xxx is the build version corresponding to a release, e.g. 1.2

The firmware can be swapped between the versions the same way as described for upgrades in chapter 7

5 Commands

The following commands are available for the SPB800 in configuration mode. For (o)WL-pico API command please see the (o)WL-pico API Specification.

db Read/write database upgrade fw upgrade xmodem reset reset device help print a list of available commands test_mode sets the unit in test mode (do NOT use without the proper software tools) nvdiag onboard non volatile memory check

The db (data base) command splits in several commands

db reset [path] reset param(s) to default (need to be followed by a db store) db get [path] list parameter(s) in the edit list. db set <path> [args ...] set single parameter db load read parameters from non-volatile memory (flash) db store write parameters to non-volatile memory (flash)

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