HMS Networks Ewon Cosy+ User manual

Enable a local WiFi access point on your Ewon®Cosy+ device
PRODUCT TYPE: COSY+
SSH-0303-01-EN
Publicaon date 29/12/2022
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Important User Informaon
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1. Introducon
In this document you will discover how you can enable a local WiFi Access Point (AP) on your Ewon® Cosy+ in
order to extend your LAN machine network.
This feature allows you to create a wireless access to your machine.
You can enable this feature if your Ewon® Cosy+ is connected to Internet using the WAN Ethernet connecon. It is
not possible to enable the WiFi access point when connected to Internet using WiFi client or 4G connecon.
NOTE
Note that the access point supports the 2,4 GHz channel only. The 5GHz channel is not supported.
Introducon Enable a local WiFi access point on your Ewon® Cosy+ device
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2. Set up a local WiFi access point on your Ewon® Cosy+
2.1. Enable WiFi Access Point and the DHCP Server
Within the Web Conguraon Interface, you will rst create and enable the WiFi Local Access Point on your
Ewon® Cosy+ EC7133J_00MA, secondly you will enable the DHCP server on your Ewon® Cosy+ device for the LAN
network.
First step: Enable and congure your WiFi Access Point
1. Verify your Ewon® Cosy+ is connected and operave.
2. In your browser, access the Web Conguraon Interface of your Ewon® Cosy+.
3. From the le menu click on Set up and then on the subsecon System.
4. Select Communicaon and click on Local
The Adress Setup secon indicates the LAN Network informaon used by the Ewon® Cosy+.
Figure 1. LAN Sengs Overview
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5. In the tab WiFi Local Access Point, at the right, check the box Enable to set up this opon.
6. Fill in the informaon as below:
a. Network name (SSID): Give a name to your WiFi Local Access Points.
b. Password: Set the password you will need to connect to the WiFi Local Access Point.
NOTICE
For security reasons, we recommend you to create a strong password that mixes
uppercase and lowercase characters, digits, etc.
c. Enable or disable SSID broadcast: If you wish to display or hide the name of your network for the WiFi
clients.
NOTICE
If you hide your network SSID, the users will have to type manually the WiFi AP name in
the client sengs.
7. If needed, in the Advanced Parameters you can set up:
- The Channel number of your WiFi network. Keep it on 0 (auto) if you don't know which frequency is the
best for your network.
- The Encrypon Mode .
NOTE
To unable the WiFi Local Access point, uncheck the Enable checkbox.
If you wish to aribute IP seng automacally to your WiFi clients, you need to enable the DHCP Server on LAN.
•Second step: Enable and congure your DHCP Server
The Dynamic Host Conguraon Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol that dynamically assigns an IP address to devices
on a network so they can communicate through this IP address.
NOTICE
The WiFi AP and the LAN network are bridged. To avoid network conicts, make sure you do not
have any exisng DHCP server running on LAN network.
1. Stay in the LAN Sengs overview.
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2. In the tab DHCP server on LAN at the right, check the box Enable to set up this opon.
3. Once enabled, you can ll in the elds based on your LAN informaon.
a. DHCP server IP range: range of IPs within your LAN. You must enter a range that excludes your Ewon®
Cosy+IP adress and any IP address that might be present on the LAN network.
b. In the Advanced Parameters there is no need to change the informaon if not required.
If required you can set up:
- Lease Time: The amount of me an IP address will be reserved for a specic device.
- If DNS Relay Enabled: forwards LAN DNS queries to the Ewon® Cosy+ DNS server.
- If DNS relay disabled: enter the IP addresses of the DNS servers (DNS1, DNS2).
- If DHCP LAN Filtering enabled: DHCP server will be applied only on devices connected through the
access point but not on devices connected on the LAN switch.
NOTE
The DNS conguraon elds are not mandatory if LAN devices also need to connect to
internet using the WAN connecon of the Ewon® Cosy+
Click on the Update buon to save your sengs.
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Once everything is setup correctly and if the SSID was not hidden in the sengs, your PC should spot the WiFi AP
you created through your Ewon® Cosy+.
Figure 2. Example from a PC
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3. LED behavior
Once the WiFi Local access point of your Ewon® Cosy+ is acve, the LED behaviour is the following:
• The ST LED (2) is blinking green slowly.
• The other LED's (3,4,5) lights are turned o.
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4. Limitaons
There are some limitaons to this feature. You must be aware of the following:
1. This opon is only available if your Ewon® Cosy+ is connected to the Internet through its Ethernet WAN
connecon.
NOTICE
It is not possible to enable the WiFi access point when connected to Internet using WiFi client
or 4G connecon. A warning message will popup in the WiFi Local Access point secon:
2. By default the WiFi and LAN network of an Ewon® Cosy+ do not have access to Internet. Therefore, it is not
an Access Point by default that provides access to Internet.
TIP
If an internet access is required, read our document
SSH-0068-00 - Allow Internet access for Ewon Cosy LAN devices .
Your Ewon® Cosy+ needs to be congured to act as a gateway and allow trac from its LAN
network to its WAN network.
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5. Congure WiFi Access Point using FTP
This secon is for advanced use only.
If for some special reasons (mass conguraon for example) you do not want to use the Ewon® Cosy+ user
interface for the conguraon, the sengs for the Access Point can also be set using an FTP access.
Hereunder are listed the corresponding parameters of the comcfg.txt le:
APEnabled:1
APSSID:Ewon_Wi_AP
APPassphrase:MyWiPwd
APBroadcastSSID:1
APChannel:0
LANDHCPSEnable:1
LANDHCPSStartIP:10.0.0.100
LANDHCPSEndIP:10.0.0.105
LANDHCPSLeaseTime:3600
DNSREnabled:1
LANDHCPSDns1:0.0.0.0
LANDHCPSDns2:0.0.0.0
LANDHCPSFilter:1
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