User guide – first steps

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Connect to kwikwai

Physical connection

Put kwikwai on your network using the ethernet port while using a usb cable to power up the device. If you connect kwikwai’s usb port to a Windows PC, automatically an appropriate FTDI driver should be proposed and installed by the OS. On Mac, the installation has to be done manually. For further information see the serial howto article.

Browser

Connect using your favorite browser and you’ll find kwikwai on the network without knowing its IP address by using its name. By default, the name is “kwikwai”, so type

and you should get a page like that.

If it does not work …

Telnet

Connect using telnet on port 9090.

unix$ telnet kwikwai.local 9090
Trying 192.168.1.51...
Connected to kwikwai.local.
Escape character is '^]'.
! Kwikwai command shell

By default, no password is required. In case, it is defined, the following additional message is displayed :

! Password required

Enter the password to have access granted

password kwikwai
OK password

Serial (DB9 or USB)

The serial connection allow the same level of control as the Telnet connection but some cases (home automation) or some people (geeks) may require to have RS232 access.
This is made possible using a USB cable via a Virtual COM port. The chip used on kwikwai to do this is the FTDI chip which will necessitate the installation of the corresponding driver on your machine.
FTDI drivers can be found here.

Once the driver is installed, instructions can be found on the Serial How To page.

Control the device

Default settings

The kwikwai default configuration is the following:

Network configuration and device access

The IP / gateway / DNS addresses and mask are dynamically defined through DHCP.

  • NetBIOS name: KWIKWAI
  • Bonjour name: kwikwai.local
  • Password is not activated

Without DHCP server (for example when connecting kwikwai directly to a PC with an Ethernet cable), kwikwai will first try to use a (random) link local address.

With bootloader 1.5.2 and firmware > 1.0r700, kwikwai first tries to use link local address 169.254.12.91 (if already in use, it will use a completely random address). Also, the IP LED only glows once kwikwai has an address. It’s very quick for DHCP but can take 10s for link local.

Time configuration

Time is automatically set through SNTP (needs a few minutes after start up).

  • SNTP server: time.windows.com
  • Timezone offset: 0

Messaging configuration

  • CEC message listening is off
  • Verbose: 0

This default configuration is restored by pressing the reset button.