Step 1. Connect The Waveguide Processing Unit To A Computer - RADAC WaveGuide 5 Direction User Manual

Step 1. Connect the WaveGuide processing unit to a computer

Once the WaveGuide processing unit is connected to a Local-Area-Network, communication
with the WaveGuide processing unit can be done via the available web-interface (Fig. 3.1).
For this purpose any web browser with JavaScript enabled can be used.
Figure 3.1: The web-interface of the WaveGuide processing unit.
Note
A computer can be connected to the WaveGuide processing unit directly using a network
cable (a crossover cable is not required).
By default, the WaveGuide processing unit tries to obtain an IPv4-address by searching
the Local-Area-Network for a DHCP server. When required the user can also setup the
system to always use a defined static IPv4 address.
When the WaveGuide processing unit completes the startup process, its IP-address can
be found via the LCD display (it can take up to 5 minutes for the IP-address to appear).
To view the IP-address, scroll through the menu using the left and right buttons until
network information is displayed and then use the up and down buttons to switch between
displaying the Host-Name and the IP-address.
An other way of locating the system in a network is by making use of the installed Zeroconf
client. Using a Zeroconf browser makes it easy to find the processing unit and the connected
radars.
To access the web-interface, type the IP-address indicated on the LCD display in the address
line of your web-browser (e.g. 192.168.111.71). Note, that your computer must be on the
same IP-address subnet as the WaveGuide processing unit that you are trying to connect
to.
The WaveGuide processing unit homepage contains three main sections (Dashboard, Con-
figuration and Status) as listed in Table 3.1.
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