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3.2. CONNECTING AN ANTENNA
3.2 Connecting an antenna
The rear panel of the AsteRx-U has two TNC connectors for GNSS antennas: one for the main antenna and one for an auxiliary antenna for heading applications. The AsteRx-U MARINE has an additional TNC connector for a dedicated L-Band antenna. To get started, connect an antenna via an antenna cable to the main antenna connector of the AsteRx-U indicated in
Figure 3-3.
Figure 3-3: Rear-panel main antenna connector
3.3 Connecting to the AsteRx-U via the Web
Interface
You can connect to the receiver on any device that supports a web browser using the receiver’s on board Web Interface. The connection can be made using either USB, Ethernet or WiFi. The following sections describe each of the connection methods.
3.3.1 Using the USB cable
Connect the combined USB/Ethernet cable to the connector labelled ’ETH USB’ on the rear panel of the AsteRx-U and indicated in Figure 3-4.
Figure 3-4: Rear panel USB and Ethernet socket
The first time that the USB cable is connected to a device, you may be prompted to allow installation of drivers which can take several minutes. When the drivers have been installed, it is recommended to unplug then re-plug in the USB cable on your device to fully activate the drivers.
When the drivers have been correctly installed, the USB connection will appear as a removable storage device as shown in Figure 3-5.
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3.3. CONNECTING TO THE ASTERX-U VIA THE WEB INTERFACE
Figure 3-5: Screenshot showing USB connection after driver installation
The USB connection on the AsteRx-U functions as network adapter and the DHCP server running on the receiver will always assign the AsteRx-U the IP address 192.168.3.1.
To connect to the AsteRx-U, you can then simply open a web browser using the IP address
192.168.3.1
as shown in Figure 3-6.
Figure 3-6: Connect to the Web Interface of the AsteRx-U over USB using the IP address 192.168.3.1
on any web browser
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