Modwrt First use

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First time setup is really straight forward.

Acccessing the web interface

1-

  • Power on the unit with a micro USB cable.

2a- Using wifi

  • Using a wifi enabled computer connect to network ModWRT.

2b- Using Wired Ethernet

  • Connect a network cable from the base unit directly to a computer.
  • Connect the micro USB power cable.

3-

  • On the computer open a web browser (chrome / brave / firefox / safari or else).
  • Go to address http://OpenWrt (or alternatively http://192.168.2.1)
  • The Luci web interface should now appear.
  • Login using user root password admin.

Configuration

Setup RTU's

  • Go to Modwrt | RTU in the menu.
  • Set the RTU slave ID with correct communication settings (baud rate etc).
  • Remove unused RTU (optional).


Setup server side

  • From the top menu select ModWRT | Streams
  • The first Emoncms entry will be enabled but not configured.
  • Get the Read & Write apikey from your emoncms online account.
  • Copy and paste it in the apikey field of the first stream entry on Luci.
  • Click

Setup Channels

  • From the menu got to Modwrt | Dataflow
  • Configure here the register channel you would like to query.
  • Start with something simple. Maybe just one or 2 channels to begin with.

Once configured correctly channel data will appear in the Input page of Emoncms.

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