User's Manual

WiFly GSX
www.rovingnetworks.com WiFlyRN171-um 2/23/2011
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1. Overview............................................................................................................................................................ 4
2. Hardware Interface............................................................................................................................................ 6
2.1. Power ................................................................................................................................................6
2.2. Reset..................................................................................................................................................6
2.3. UART................................................................................................................................................6
2.4. Status Indictors..................................................................................................................................7
3. Configuration..................................................................................................................................................... 7
3.1. Entering Command Mode.................................................................................................................7
4. WiFly Command Reference........................................................................................................................... 10
4.1. Command Syntax............................................................................................................................10
4.2. Command Organization..................................................................................................................10
5. SET Commands............................................................................................................................................... 11
5.1. Adhoc Parameters...........................................................................................................................11
5.2. Broadcast Parameters......................................................................................................................11
5.3. COMM Parameters.........................................................................................................................12
5.4. DNS Parameters..............................................................................................................................13
5.5. FTP Parameters...............................................................................................................................13
5.6. IP Parameters..................................................................................................................................14
5.7. Optional Parameters........................................................................................................................16
5.8. SystemParameters...........................................................................................................................16
5.9. Time Server Parameters..................................................................................................................17
5.10. UART Parameters...........................................................................................................................18
5.11. WLAN Parameters..........................................................................................................................19
5.12. Sensor Parameters...........................................................................................................................22
6. Get Commands................................................................................................................................................ 23
7. Status Commands............................................................................................................................................ 24
8. Action Commands........................................................................................................................................... 25
9. File IO Commands.......................................................................................................................................... 26
10. Advanced features and Settings................................................................................................................. 27
10.1. System Timers and Auto Connect Timers......................................................................................28
10.2. Wake on Sensor Input.....................................................................................................................31
10.3. Wake on UART ..............................................................................................................................31
10.5. Setting GPIO direction, Alternate Functions and Disabling LEDs ................................................33
10.6. Setting Debug Print levels ..............................................................................................................36
10.7. Using the Real Time Clock Function..............................................................................................36
10.8. Time Stamping Packets...................................................................................................................37
11. Sending data using UDP.................................................................................................................38
11.1. Overview.........................................................................................................................................38
11.2. UDP Auto Pairing...........................................................................................................................39
11.3. UDP Retry.......................................................................................................................................39
11.4. Using the UDP Broadcast function.................................................................................................39
12. Joining Networks and Making Connections ............................................................................................ 41