Logging into your Sentinel

This is only relevant if you have a WiFi connection and the Sentinel-modem

Setting up the modem

For this you need a working WiFi connection (or Hotspot) without a secondary verification e.g. hotel Wifi with a login page

Sentinel-modem

This process repeats your WiFi to a network that Sentinel knows (called sentinel-net). This allows the Sentinels to always look for the same network wherever they are

1. Plug-in provided modem via micro USB cable

2. Connect to sentinel-net (PW: endextinction)

3. Open the browser and navigate to 192.168.8.1 (PW: endextinction)

This should pop up when you navigate to 192.168.8.1 on sentinel-net for the first time

1. Click the Scan button, and connect to your WiFi network

Click the scan button

Example of personal WiFi

1. Check that you are both connected to sentinel-net network and that a webpage loads

You will only have to do this process once.

Running Sentinel update commands

The Sentinel team strives not to require users to see a single line of code. For this part, we aren't quite there. Sorry 😢 we are working on it...

Mac/Linux/Windows

1. Open Terminal (Mac: found inside Finder/Utilities, Windows: Powershell)

If you have a Windows computer that is not fully updated, you may have to install OpenSSH

1. Attach a power source to the Sentinel (the microUSB or 18650 batteries).

2. Turn on Sentinel

3. Verify that the Sentinel is connected to Sentinel-net (during boot-up the Sentinel shoudl show a stable blue light at some point):

Sentinel name (e.g. jumping-nexus) should pop up in Clients

1. ssh into the sentinel: (change out {device-name} for your device name (i.e.,jumping-nexus, etc.) by typing into your terminal:

ssh root@{device-name}.local

1. When the Sentinel is connected to WiFi and you managed to successfully ssh into it, a password prompt will show (PW: endextinction)

2. Type "debug_on" into the terminal and press enter. (This will put it in debug mode - you have to be very quick!)

3. Copy in the command that the Conservation X Labs engineer gave you.

// Some code 

What is this doing?

1. Remotely accessing the Sentinel computer.

2. Putting the device in debug mode (so the device doesn't shutdown)

3. Updates the device to the latest code

4. Updates the settings to the latest requirements

5. Changes/updates the model