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Hardware setup

Setting up your hardware is a series of steps you'll need to go through every time you want to change your wifi credentials. What we aim to do in these steps is opening the wifi hotspot associated with the board so that we can enter our wifi credentials and activation code to connect our board with our application.

At the end of this section, you'll have an activated node on your application that you can use to control the inputs and outputs connected to the board. To setup your hardware, you need to go through the following steps.

Step 1: Check the board label​

Check the label on the back of the board for the Wi-Fi network name and password. Tamra Label

Step 2: Powering your Tamra IoT board up​

There are 3 methods to power up the board. You can pick any, but we'll tell you which method is more convenient for each stage of your project. These methods are:

  1. Using a USB cable to connect it to your computer/laptop.
  2. Using an AC-to-DC adapter supplying 7-12V to the power jack.
  3. Using an external battery to supply 5V into the Vin pin on the board.

You can read more about these methods in this Powering up methods section. For this tutorial, we'll use the first method to power up our board.

  1. On the board end, the cable is inserted into the Micro-USB port shown in the following picture.

    Micro-USB Port

  2. On the computer end, the cable is inserted into a normal USB port.

Step 2: Connect to the board wifi Network​

After connecting the board to the power source, Look for a wifi network with the name typed on your label. My wifi name is shown here. Tamra@459 appeared on my phone's wifi list. Use the exact wifi name as your wifi password. Here, I'm using my wifi name Tamra@459. Connect to it, then proceed to the next step.

Tamra IoT

Tamra Password

Step 3: Save Wifi credentials and activation code​

Upon connecting to Tamra-IoT Wifi, a new page should open in your browser.

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If it doesn't automatically open, check this How to manually enter Wifi credentials guide.

  1. When the page is loaded, click the Configure Wi-Fi button to save the Wi-Fi network credentials the board will use to connect to the Internet.

  2. Now check if your local network is shown on the list or not. Click on the refresh button if the network you want is not listed. Hint: you may need to be close to the router or the access point so your board can have a strong Wi-Fi signal.

  3. Choose the Wi-Fi network and enter the Wi-Fi password. Here, I'm connecting the board with my local network, which I'll use to connect the Tamra board to the Internet.

  4. Write your activation code. You will find it in your Tamra account.

  5. Click on Save button.

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Don't forget! You need to write your activation code too. You will find the activation code in your Tamra account. Here, I'm using my activation code, 688283.

Configure WiFi

WiFi Credentials

To make sure you've properly applied this step:

  • You should now be connected to your original Wifi
  • Nawa Wifi should disappear from your wifi list
  • When you open your application, you should find a New Node colored in Blue (meaning that it's active).

New Node

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If the new node isn't activated yet, try to close the application and reopen it. Also, try to restart the board by removing the usb cable from your laptop and reconnecting it.

Congratulations! You have completed the setup process, and now you are ready for the next step.