Manage device networking
Let’s learn how to manage device networking on SPEKTRA Edge.
We utilize the Canonical Netplan to manage device networking on SPEKTRA Edge. It provides the clean and intuitive YAML based configuration and support wide range of Linux networking managers.
In this guide, we’ll learn how to configure the wireless interface on Raspberry Pi as the secondary interface to get familier with the Netplan YAML configuration.
Netplan how-to guides
Please take a look at the official Netplan how-to guides for additional examples how to configure device networking.What you need
To go through this page, you need the followings.
- an access to the SPEKTRA Edge dashboard
- an active project
- a device provisioned under the project
Configure Wi-Fi networking
Go to the Device overview page by clicking the device name, e.g. Raspbrerry Pi 5, on the Project overview page.
Clicking the device name, Raspberry Pi 5, to go to the Device overview page.
Then, click the Edit details option of the Device actions to open the Update device details page.
Clicking the Edit details option to open the Update device details page.
Go to the Network agent section of the Update device details page and use the Merge option to add the new Wi-Fi specific configuration.
Add Wi-Fi specific configuration with the Merge with default configuration option.
Netplan Wi-Fi configurations
Please note that the above example is a simple Wi-Fi network configuration to connect to the home Wi-Fi network with spektra SSID and edge password.
Please take a look at the official Netplan How-to guides for more real-life Wi-Fi configurations.
Verify Wi-Fi networking
Go to the Device overview page and check the IP address as well as the ISP information for the wireless interface.
Verifying the IP address of the Wi-Fi interface on the Device overview page.
Next step
Congratulations for configuring the Wi-Fi networking of your Raspberry Pi with SPEKTRA Edge.
With that, let’s move on to the next learning material, managing device OS releases on SPEKTRA Edge.
Onwards.