Omnitrack Base System with Wi-Fi

We recommend you test the system after each step to make sure you've done the step properly.

1. Make sure your BlueROV is fully functional. See the Blue Robotics documentation. Connect it to your computer and power it on.

2. If your Omnitrack system includes a Tracker 650 DVL, install it and verify its operation. Be sure it is not set to provide the ROV with a global origin. Avoid setting the Tracker 650 to send any of its periodic messages to a general broadcast address (example broadcast address: 255.255.255.255) — Wi-Fi networks are not good at IP broadcast messages and they may bog down the Wi-Fi.

3. Install the transmitter (ROVL Mk II) or transponder (Mk III) on the ROV and connect it to the ROV battery buss. You do not need to make serial connections to the ROV unless you plan to use the GPS outputs (Mk II only) when above the surface. You should tape the serial leads if they are unused so they do not short to each other or to other exposed terminals in the ROV. A Mk II transmitter will ping once per second if powered up and it has been exposed to GPS signals for a minute or two. A Mk III transponder will click if powered and gently tapped.

4. Install the ROVL's receiver (ROVL Mk II) or transceiver (ROVL Mk III) on the ring buoy.

5. Install the antenna on the Wi-Fi module. Insert a charged battery into the Wi-Fi module and power it on using the screw-in power switch next to the antenna jack on the Wi-Fi module.

6. After waiting at least 60 seconds for the Wi-Fi to boot, connect your PC's Wi-Fi interface to the Omnitrack Wi-Fi. The SSID is "Omnitrack." The password is "OmnitrackAP" [Note: leave the Wi-Fi interface set to automatically obtain an IP address, which is the default].

7. Bridge the Omnitrack network and the BlueROV network.

8. Power the ROV and wait 3 minutes for it to boot. Verify you can browse to the ROV at http://192.168.2.2 (assuming you have not changed the ROV from its default IP address, and that you have set a compatible IP address [by default 192.168.2.1] for the PC's Ethernet interface you are using to test).

9. Power up the Omnitrack and verify you can browse to it at http://192.168.2.9.

10. If not in the United States, check your Wi-Fi country settings.

11. At this point, you should check the configuration of the ROVL topside transmitter or transceiver, and you should be ready to operate.

12. If you are testing indoors you may want to look here.