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Before Getting Started ................................................................................................ 4
Other Documentation ...................................................................................................... 4
Other Sources of Information ......................................................................................... 5
Getting Started ............................................................................................................ 7
Overview ......................................................................................................................... 7
A Portal into Your Network............................................................................................ 9
Evaluation Kit Hardware .............................................................................................. 10
Taking the Nodes for a “Test Drive” ........................................................................... 14
Time to push some buttons! (Seeing the demo script in action) ................................... 16
More about the Hardware ............................................................................................. 17
Device Configurations .................................................................................................. 17
Installing Portal ........................................................................................................ 18
Updates on the Web ...................................................................................................... 18
Running Setup............................................................................................................... 18
Plug in the Bridge Device ............................................................................................. 22
Launch........................................................................................................................... 25
Tutorial ..................................................................................................................... 26
Welcome ....................................................................................................................... 26
Navigating within Portal ............................................................................................... 27
Pull-down Menus ...................................................................................................... 27
Tool Bar .................................................................................................................... 27
Tabbed Windows ...................................................................................................... 27
Rearranging Windows .............................................................................................. 28
Resizing..................................................................................................................... 28
Closing Tabs ............................................................................................................. 28
Discovery ...................................................................................................................... 29
Node Info ...................................................................................................................... 31
Upload SNAPpy Image................................................................................................. 33
Portal Scripting ............................................................................................................. 37
Radio Range Testing ..................................................................................................... 39
Battery Operation .......................................................................................................... 40
Low Power Operation ................................................................................................... 41
Where To Go Next ........................................................................................................ 41
License governing any code samples presented in this Guide.......................................... 42
Disclaimers ....................................................................................................................... 42
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