RHF2S308 WEB User Manual

1. Login
With the web-based utility, it is easily to configure and manage your gateway.

Default user name: admin

Default password: admin

There are two ways to open the built-in web of your gateway:

1. Connect your PC to the WiFi of your gateway and use 192.168.8.1 to open the built-in web
with the web browser.

2. Connect both your gateway and PC to a same router, and get the ip of the gateway in the
LAN. Use this ip to open the built-in web with the web browser. Here use 192.168.31.49 for
example.
  

2. Status bar
A status bar show some key current status of the hardware. Users could have a quick glimpse to
check status of the hardware of your gateway. Each parameters on the status bar have 3 status
with different color.

Blue bar means OK

Red bar means Error or Warning

Grey bar means hardware is absent

There are 10 parts total, which are External Power Supply, Internal Battery Supply, Solar Battery,
4G LTE, Ethernet, GPS, WiFi, Temperature, LoRa module 0 and LoRa module 1.

Below it is a example for “External Power”:

means a external power supply (AC/DC adapter or PoE injector) is

connected.

means a external power supply is removed or broken.

NOTE: For gateway devices that only support 8 channels, only LoRa module 0 is supported,
and LoRa module1 will be gray.

3. Side navigation bar

Navigation bar include most of the main configurations and management of the gateway.

Device Information: some basic information of the gateway

Server Configuration: noise scanning, Packet forwarder, IoTSquare, Loraserver

Network Configuration: configuration and operation for WiFi of the gateway

System Configuration: configuration for gateway system

Download Log: to download the working log of the gateway

Firmware Upgrade: to upgrade firmware

3.1 Device Information

Device information show the basic information of the gateway. It contains the device model,
system time (the value in parentheses after the system time represents the time zone), system
running time, MAC address, local IP, firmware version, kernel version, hardware version and back
network information.

 
3.2 Server Configuration
With Server Configuration you could do:

1. Ambient Noise Scanning

The RHF2S308 gateway integrates a bottom noise scanning analysis engine. This function will
help customers find interference signals and noise in advance when deploying on site.
Please fill in the Start Frequency and Stop Frequency and click Start Scanning to start noise
scan. The default scanning band is 2MHz if you just input start frequency. Default step is
100kHz. The band you scan is bigger, the time is longer. Scanning band 2MHz or 5MHz which
could cover the target operation band of your gateway is strongly suggested.

When the noise floor scanning is completed, the configuration page will display the scanning
results in two forms: the noise floor average curve graph represents the average noise level
obtained at the frequency point during scanning, and the noise floor thermal distribution
graph represents the transient noise distribution.

2. Packet forwarder

Running Status: Not Running or Running

Gateway ID: fill in the gateway ID (please note that different servers will use different
gateway ID naming rules)
 Server Address: fill in the target server address

Server Port: fill in the uplink port number and downlink port number of the target server
respectively
Global Configuration: select the frequency profile supported by the gateway. Different
models support different frequency plans. Please check the specification "[DS02125]
RHF2S308 Product Specification" before using the device to confirm the information

Click the "Start" button to start the program. If the device starts other LoRa-related services,
the system will close other LoRa services and start the program.

3. IoTSquare
IoTSquare (https://IoTSquare.xyz) is a program used to connect to the IoTSquare server.

Running Status: Not running, Running Bridge or Running

Gateway ID: fill in the gateway ID

MQTT Server: fill in the MQTT Server address

HTTP Server: fill in the HTTP Server address

Open/Close Pktfwd: used to choose to turn on/off Pktfwd, and it also indicates the current
Pktfwd status. If you turn off Pktfwd, LoRaWAN data cannot be forwarded.
If the "Open/Close Pktfwd" button is not lit, when the program is started, the running status
will be displayed as "Running Bridge"; if the "Open/Close Pktfwd" button is lit, the running
status will be displayed as "Running" means that both Bridge and Pktfwd are running. If the
device starts other LoRa-related services, the system will close other LoRa services and start
the program.
 4. loraserver

Loraserver is used to configure a standard LoRaWAN server. Fill in the corresponding

configuration information and click the "Start" button to start the program.

3.3 Network Configuration

The network configuration page includes WIFI Configuration, IP Configuration, APN Configuration,
RSSH Operation, Ping, Traceroute, Host.

1. WIFI Configuration
WIFI Configuration is mainly for the network configuration of the WiFi of the gateway device.
You can modify the default ip address, SSID username, password and whether to hide the
SSID. If the hide SSID function is turned on, the device will be hidden and other devices will
not be able to search for the device.

2. IP Configuration

IP Configuration mainly provides switching between DHCP configuration and static IP

configuration. Users can choose one of them. After filling in the corresponding information,
click the "Submit" button to make the configuration effective.
3. APN Configuration

APN Configuration is used to query, add and delete the APN of the gateway LTE dialing. If the
sim card used by the user cannot dial normally, you can use this page to query or add the
APN corresponding to the sim card.

4. RSSH Operation

RSSH Operation is the port number for remote debugging of the management gateway.
When the user gateway needs remote assistance, you can enable the RSSH function and
send the port number to the company's technical support to log in to the gateway remotely.
Remember to turn off RSSH after debugging, after all, turning on the remote debugging
function will increase security risks.

5. Ping
 Ping operation is used to detect whether the device can access the Internet normally, test
whether the gateway can directly connect to the gw.risinghf.com server, and users can also
customize their own server address. Enter the server address, click the "Ping" button, and
wait for a while to see the prompt message.

6. Traceroute

Traceroute operation is used to detect whether the device can access the Internet normally,
test the route through which the gateway connects to gw.risinghf.com, and users can also
customize their own server address. Enter the server address, click the "Traceroute" button,
and wait for a while to see the routing information you have passed.

7. Host
Host operation is used to detect whether the device can access the Internet normally, and to
test the DNS server used by the gateway. Users can customize their own server address.
Enter the server address, click the "Host" button, and wait for a while to see the prompt
message.
 

3.4 System Configuration

System configuration page can configure some system information, such as setting the time zone.

1. General Configuration
The current system time and time zone of the device are included in the General
configuration. Users can choose the time zone to change the system time according to their
needs.

3.5 Download Log

On the log download page, you can view and download a variety of logs related to the operation
of the gateway.

1. System Log

System log records the log of the gateway kernel running, including the status information of
the kernel running, which can be used by the user to analyze the running status of the
gateway system.
2. LTE Log

LTE Log can be used to analyze the dial history of LTE 4G and analyze the disconnection. The
system records the current 4G signal quality every 30 minutes.

3. ETH Log

ETH Log records the connection status and disconnection history of the gateway and the
Ethernet.

4. Boot Time Log

Boot Time Log is mainly used to record the time when the gateway system is powered on
again. We can use the boot time log to determine whether the system is powered off or
restarted during operation.
5. LoRa/LoRaWAN Log

LoRa/LoRaWAN Log will only record abnormal events during LoRaWAN operation. If the
whole operation process is normal, the log will be empty.

6. Temperature Log

Temperature Log in the gateway mainly records the ambient temperature in the gateway
housing, and the temperature will be recorded at a frequency of once every 15 minutes. It
can be viewed by zooming.

7. Power Management Log

Power Management Log records system power switch events and battery discharge logs.
With the help of this log, users can analyze problems such as abnormal reset or restart of the
device due to power failure.
 

3.6 Firmware Upgrade

Firmware Upgrade page uses the application package upgrade function to upgrade the gateway
application. Please contact the technicians of RisingHF Network (Shenzhen) Co. , Ltd to upgrade.

4. Shortcut Button
A set of shortcut buttons are integrated in the upper right corner of the main page, including
shortcut keys for A key diagnostic, System restart, Back online, and Login Out.

4.1 A key diagnostic

Use A key diagnostic to quickly check the equipment hardware failures. On-site construction
personnel can use this function shortcut key to quickly diagnose the equipment to ensure that the
equipment is installed correctly. Please follow the steps below for device diagnosis:
 1. Click the A key diagnostic button, the page pops up "Does it diagnose equipment?".

2. Click OK to start the diagnosis, and the page displays the diagnosis progress bar.

3. After the diagnosis is complete, the page will display the diagnostic results. Note: Diagnostics
are complete, the system will automatically restart.

4.2 System restart

When you click the "System restart" button, the page will pop up the prompt "Do you want to
restart the device?". Click OK, the system will start to restart, and the system restart progress bar
will pop up on the page. After the system restarts, the original WiFi connection will be lost. Please
reconnect your computer to the device's WiFi and log in to the device.
 

4.3 Back online

By configuring the priority of the backhaul network, the 4G LTE mode or the 10/100m Ethernet
priority network mode can be selected as the backhaul network. The default gateway uses
Ethernet as the priority network. When users use Ethernet and 4G at the same time, when the
Ethernet cable is unplugged, it will automatically switch to 4G. When the user changes the priority
of the gateway backhaul network to 4G priority, the gateway will automatically switch to the wired
network when the 4G connection drops.
 

4.4 Login Out

Click the "Login Out" button and the page will return to the login page.

5. Chinese-English switching
There are Chinese-English switching buttons on the upper right corner of the login page and the
main page to facilitate switching between Chinese and English.