User manual
Each of these guides walks you through the basics of unpacking your evaluaon kit, seng up your wireless
nodes, and installing Portal soware on your PC. You may find it helpful to start with one of these manuals, even
if you are not starng with an EK2500 or EK2100 kit. (Synapse SNAP nodes are also sold separately, as well as
bundled into evaluaon kits.)
About This Manual
This manual assumes you have read and understood the SNAP Primer and either the “EK2100 Users Guide” or
the “EK2500 Users Guide.” It assumes you have installed the Portal soware, and are now familiar with the
basics of discovering nodes, uploading SNAPpy scripts into them, and controlling and monitoring them from
Portal.
The focus of this manual is general informaon about SNAP and SNAPpy. It covers topics like the SNAPpy
language, and how to use it.
NOTE – This document is more “tutorial” in nature. If the informaon you are seeking is more “reference”
in nature, for example a list of the built-in funcons that are accessible from SNAPpy, or informaon
about the different node configuraon parameters that can be changed, then you should refer to the
SNAP Reference Manual.
Other Important Documentaon
Be sure to check out all of the SNAP documentaon:
This document, the SNAP Users Guide, is only one of several. Be sure to also take a look at:
• The “SNAP Primer” (60037-01)
• The “Portal Reference Manual” (60024-01)
• The “SNAP Reference Manual” (600-0007)
• The “SNAP Hardware Technical Manual” (600-101.01)
Every switch, buon, and jumper of every SNAP board is covered in this hardware reference document.
• The “End Device Quick Start Guide” (600-0001)
• The “SN171 Proto Board Quick Start Guide” (600-0011)
These two documents are subsets of the “SNAP Hardware Technical Manual” and come in handy because they
focus on a single board type.
• The “SNAP Sniffer Users Guide” (600026-01)
Starng with Portal version 2.2.23, a “wireless sniffer” capability is included with Portal. If you follow the
instrucons in this standalone manual, you will be able to actually see the wireless exchanges that are taking
place between your SNAP nodes.
• The “SNAP 2.2 Migraon Guide” (600023-01)
There were enough changes between the 2.1 and 2.2 series of SNAP releases that we decided to provide an
extra “transion” guide. This document also provides insights into the plaorm variable and the concept of GPIO
pins to simplify cross-plaorm development. It may be worth a review, especially if you expect to be developing
scripts for SNAP Engines based on more than one underlying architecture.
• The “SNAP Firmware Release Notes”
• The “Portal Release Notes”
2 SNAP® Network Operang System