Tutorials

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HOW TO ADD CHESTER TO CLOUD

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1. Take your phone and log in to HARDWARIO Cloud.

2. Open your Cloud space.

3. Click NEW DEVICE.

4. In the new tab, click SCAN DEVICE.

5. Now scan the QR code on the back of CHESTER.

6. It will automatically fill in the necessary information.

7. Here you can add a comment and select space tags for this device.

8. After completing the settings, click CREATE DEVICE.

9. The device has now been added to your space.

10. From this page, you have access to device messages.

HOW TO CONNECT CHESTER TO YOUR PHONE

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1. Take your phone and open the Camera app.

2. Now scan the QR code on the back of CHESTER.

3. Open the link from the QR code.

4. It will show you the necessary information.

5. Remember or copy the Bluetooth passkey.

6. Now open the HARDWARIO Manager app.

7. Click the scanner icon in the top right corner.

8. Then, scan the QR code on the back of CHESTER again.

9. It will open the pairing window.

10. Enter or paste the Bluetooth passkey and tap Pair.

11. Wait a few seconds for pairing to complete.

12. Now CHESTER is connected to your phone.

13. Here you can see all device information.

14. For more features, open the hamburger menu on the left.

15. There you will find a list of all app tools.

16. To set up CHESTER, open the Terminal.

17. Now you can send shell commands like info show or config show.

18. It will immediately return a response.

19. You can scroll through all sent commands.

HOW TO UPDATE CHESTER WITH PHONE

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1. Take your CHESTER and connect using the HARDWARIO Manager app.

2. If this is your first time, watch the video in the card where the full procedure is explained.

3. On the main screen, check the current name and firmware version.

4. To update, go to the menu and select the Update firmware section.

5. Click on SCAN QR CODE.

6. Open the scanner and scan the QR code from the firmware page.

7. The firmware will download automatically — just click on UPDATE FIRMWARE.

8. It will take about 2 minutes. First, the firmware is uploaded to CHESTER.

9. Then a reset will be triggered, during which the status LED will blink in multiple colors.

10. After the reset, CHESTER will reconnect to your phone and confirm that the update has been completed.

11. At this point, a message Firmware updated successfully will appear and CHESTER will disconnect. Click OK.

12. If you want to verify that the update was successful, reconnect to CHESTER.

13. On the main screen, check that the name and firmware version have changed compared to before the update.

HOW TO SET UP BLUETOOTH TAG

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1. Take your TEKTONIKA Tag, place a magnet on the front side, and wait until the green LED blinks. This wakes it up from sleep mode.

2. Take your phone and download or open the EYE App.

3. In the app, tap the magnifying glass icon, then tap the QR code icon, and scan the QR code on the BLE Tag.

4. Then tap Search.

5. Now, only your scanned Tag should appear.

6. If not, pull down on the page to refresh.

7. Once you see your Tag, tap on it.

8. After a moment, a pairing window will pop up.

9. Enter the passkey, which is 123456 by default.

10. Now you are connected to the sensor.

11. If an update is available, tap Download and Install.

12. The sensor will automatically update to the latest FW version — this takes about 2–3 minutes.

13. After the update, open the Configure section.

14. Set the Power signal to 4 dBm for better range.

15. Then set Advertising Interval to the maximum value, which is 10 s.

16. Finally, disable the Movement and Magnetic Field sensors.

17. Tap Save and then Save again — the Tag is now configured.

18. You can now disconnect and set up another Tag.

HOW TO PAIR BLUETOOTH TAG WITH CHESTER

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1. Take CHESTER and connect using the HARDWARIO Manager app.

2. If this is your first time, watch the video in the card where the whole procedure is shown.

3. Once connected, go to Terminal.

4. Type the command config show to check that your settings are correct.

5. In the output, find the tag config enabled.

6. If it is set to true, you can skip the following steps.

7. If it is set to false, type tag config enabled true and then config save.

8. CHESTER will restart and disconnect you, so reconnect again.

9. Scan the QR code, click on the device, and go to Console.

10. You can pair up to 8 tags with CHESTER.

11. To see the paired tags, type tag config devices list.

12. You will see the list of all eight slots, which will be empty 0000000000 at first.

13. Take the tag you want to pair and place it next to CHESTER.

14. In the console, type tag enroll. CHESTER will start auto-discovery for 10 seconds.

15. If it finds the tag, it will display its MAC address, make sure it matches (you can find it on the tag).

16. If pairing was successful, you can skip the next steps.

17. If CHESTER does not find the tag, try tag enroll twice.

18. If pairing still does not work, you must manually save the MAC address.

19. Do this using the command tag config device add MAC_address, which you can find on the tag or in the QR code.

20. After entering it, the tag will automatically be added to the first free slot.

21. You can add more tags this way (up to 8).

22. If you enter a wrong address, you can remove it using tag config devices remove (slot number).

23. Save the final configuration using config save.

24. To check, reconnect to CHESTER and in the console type tag devices list.

25. It should show the list of your paired tags.

26. To test reading, type tag read. CHESTER will read the current values from the tags.

27. That’s it. Now you can install the tags where you need them.