Waking up tags remotely, via Gateway

Wireless Connectivity Ultra-Wideband
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Hi
I have purchased the MDEK1001 and have setup the system with 4 anchors, 2 tags and 1 listener (an anchor in passive mode). I connected the listener to a PC via USB and already am able to obtain the coordinates of both tags, by running the “lep” command on the “Minicom” terminal.
My question is: Is there any way i could force a tag to go into sleep/awake mode remotely, via the listener (by using UWB signals, not bluetooth)?
Thank you.

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Hi Alex,

The listener only listens. If you want to interact with the network over UWB, you need to setup a gateway that we have recently released.

Please see the gateway quick deployment guide.

Regarding your question, I think you could add this behavior in the user application, and enable it on receive of a downlink token from the gateway.

Thanks
Yves

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when sutting up the gateway, should we download the host api into the raspberry board??
or it will run on itself cause it doesn’t show any tags or anchors

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Hi Ahmed, the gateway and host api are two very different software components.

The gateway will work on its own.

Yves

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okay that’s clear now ;
So what’s the host api rpi in the documents what’s its use ?

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The host api is an example of a C program connecting to an anchor or a tag and retriving data from it. It is running on a raspberry pi but it is very different from the gateway which is much more complex.

Thanks
Yves

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okay
the source code for the web manager is available for devoloppers??

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Hi Ahmed,

the source code of the Web Manager is on the Raspberry PI image in /var/www.
It’s client base application so you can also download it via your web browser.

Cheers,
TDK

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Thanks mate
will look into it