EA000405 – BOARDER ROUTER
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2.3 Joining, Commissioning and Starting a Network
2.3.1 Joining Ethernet Gateway to an existing network:
- On command prompt type “sudo ot-ctl” then press enter
- Command prompt will print “>”
- On command prompt type “ifconfig up” then press enter
- Command prompt will print “up”
- On command prompt type “joiner start 123456” then press enter’
- Command prompt will print “Done”, and if joining with the device is successful,
command prompt will print “joiner successful”
- On command prompt type “thread start” then press enter
- Command prompt will print “Done”
2.3.2 Commission a device to the network
- On command prompt type “sudo ot-ctl” then press enter
- Command prompt will print “>”
- On command prompt type “Commissioner start” then press enter
- Command prompt will print “Done” and “> Commissioner: active”
- On command prompt type “commissioner joiner add * 123456” then press enter
- Command prompt will print “Done”
- To close commissioner type on command prompt “commissioner stop” then press enter
- Command prompt will print “Commissioner: disabled” and “Done”
2.3.3 Start a Network
- On command prompt type “sudo ot-ctl” then press enter
- Command prompt will print “>”
- On command prompt type “dataset init new” then press enter
- Command prompt will print “Done”
- On command prompt type “dataset channel x”; where x represents the desired channel.
Valid numbers are between 1 and 10. then press enter
- Command prompt will print “Done”
- Type “dataset commit active”
- Command prompt will print “Done”
- Type “ifconfig up”
- Type “thread start”
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