Aredn: Flashing a Ubiquiti NanoStation M2

welcome to tank radio on my roof again why did you make me do this today we are flashing a ubiquity nano station m2 with arden play that awesome intro video are you suffering from worrying about when a localized disaster would take out all the cell towers internet outages or just wondering what will you do in a grid down scenarios [Music] i give you amateur radio amateur radio can be used without an internet connection and in a true grid down scenario you can use amateur radio with a battery side effects include rf burns experiencing a very expensive hobby endless chasing down of touch lamps in the house maxed out credit cards may cause angry spouses binge buying about things amateur radio your answer for grid down scenarios today we're going to reflash this nano station let me go ahead and explain my setup is not the typical setup we're going to start with the nano station the nano station is power over ethernet so it's plugged into the power over ethernet dongle the dongle has another port for the ethernet itself and that's plugged in directly to my desktop because the surface doesn't have a direct ethernet plug i didn't want to go out and get a usb adapter i'm controlling my desktop via remote desktop so i'm doing that over wireless let's go ahead and start by downloading the software i'm at arden's page already and we're going to go to software and downloads and download and out of this list you're going to need to find your particular hardware set for mine it is a nano station m2 x m i don't know particularly how to tell if the device is a mx or a wx device there's this information here which i did not find too useful but but through trial and error i figured out my device was a mx device when i was just trying to re-flash the router's firmware with the factory image before we started this to start out with this ubiquiti nodes you need to first download the factory software and there we go in order to get the device into a reset state first we need a pointy thing then we're gonna unplug the device or the ethernet port i'm gonna then put it back in there a little bit not enough for it to have contact and then push and hold the reset button and then plug the device back in while you're still holding the reset button while it's booting we're gonna wait for a flash pattern of one and three then two and four on the lights and i'll point that out in a second once it gets there almost there we go and ow pick something with less of a pointy end on your finger we should see that the lights flash between one and three and two and four and now the device is in a reset state we are going to use a tftp client to push the factory image to the device or you know the arden factory image to the device windows has this built in but you have to enable it first to do that in the windows search menu search for features and turn on or off windows features then in this list if you scroll down almost all the way to the bottom you'll see a ft or tftp client and a telnet client go ahead and enable both of those you will probably have to restart your computer after enabling that next we're going to have to give the computer a static ip address to do this right click on your network icon at the bottom right corner of your screen and go to internet settings in the network status we are going to look for change adapter options here right click on your ethernet device i have two ethernet ports on mine and this particular case is we're going to go to properties then we're going to choose ip4 and then go to properties again and we're going to change this to use the following ip address and we wanted a one nine two one six eight one dot two five zero and then the sub mass two five five two five five two five five i messed that up one six eight close on close and now bring up a command prompt and type in ipconfig sweet then we're going to confirm that we're able to ping this device by default i believe it starts with a 192 168 1.20 ip address one is in a recovery mode and there we go so let's go ahead and change directory into our download folder and type in the tftp dash i for a binary file where we're going to send the file 192.168.1.20 and the file itself arden and enter once if this command is successful we'll see the light start flickering out of this pattern and it will start processing the binary file efforts finish dropped you do not have to unplug the device after the upload has been completed the device will automatically reset and start to load that file if it goes back to the same pattern of lights it did not accept the file check your hardware set and make sure you downloaded the right arden binary bin file i did not use the command right i forgot put because we're gonna put that file there we go the pattern stopped and we're pushing data on the lan port it's done and now it's processing the file so we just got to wait for it to be done let's go back to the network settings and we're going to change the ip address to a automatic or dhcp when arden is successfully flashed it will hand out an ip address so we're going to ipconfig again there we go we got a local mesh node and a ip address of 1.14 with a gateway of 1.1 so if we go ahead and open that up into a browser ta-da it is flashed so okay let's go ahead and get this set up i don't know what the default password for arden is that someone's laughing right now let's go ahead and just search that see my stuff is not rehearsed it might be researched but not rehearsed root hfmm and it's customary to put your call sign at the beginning here and then i like to tag it which note it is put home i believe around the our area we are using a negative 2 for the channel i think we don't have to touch anything else i'm going ahead and also just change the password while i'm at it save changes this will probably rebuild the router so we'll go ahead and let that happen okay let's go back to setup i don't think we need to do much of anything else like this i know arden itself you will have to connect to a node running the same software and sub channels so that needs to be coordinated between the the group that of nodes that you're trying to build up the network with other than that i believe the rest of the setting should be fine so let's go ahead and give it a shot on top of my roof and see if i can connect anyone else here i am back on the roof again i got the arden node on a monopod i didn't feel like hauling up another tripod i got my tablet up here with another arden node that i'm going to use to remote to this guy and see if i can connect to another node in the neighborhood so let's go ahead and look on the computer here currently i got the node pointed in a north direction the portable one is the micro router i'm running on home is the current arden node and right now i'm not seeing anything in that north direction let's go ahead and try to point it south get it a little higher just turn on auto refresh that might help now go ahead and have it pointed south to see if i can pick up another node here no i'm not seeing any since this ubiquity node is a directional antenna you're going to have to point it in several directions see if you're going to be able to connect to a different node now i got it pointed to the east wait for the pace to reset still nothing i just double checked the camera picture we're recording i'm not coming back up here back to the north yeah unfortunately i'm not seeing any other arden nodes in my neighborhood nope just refreshed oh that's a bummer i'm going to go ahead and get everything collected i did successfully get the nodes talking to each other so that is working and it was a successful flash so thank you for joining us see you next time these are some cookies my mom made to put in my go bag hey

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Length: 13min 44sec (824 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 02 2021