Ethernet Shield with PoE Support

www.freetronics.com/ethernet-shield

Getting Started: Freetronics Ethernet Shield for Arduino

The Ethernet Shield is an Arduino-compatible expansion board ("shield") that gives your Arduino the ability to communicate as either a client or a server on an Ethernet network. It plugs directly into the Freetronics TwentyTen, the Arduino Duemilanove, and other Arduino-compatible boards that use the same header format. It uses the same Wiznet W5100 chipset as the official Arduino Ethernet Shield and connects using the same SPI pins, so it is 100% compatible with the official Arduino Ethernet library. Any example code or projects that use the official Ethernet Shield will work perfectly well with the Freetronics Ethernet Shield, and now have added Power-over-Ethernet ability, reset circuitry, SPI bus CS fix, plus a prototyping area for your project.

Installation And Testing 1. Place the Ethernet Shield on top of your Arduino so that the header pins align with the Arduino headers, and
carefully push it down into place. For the next example steps the Ethernet Shield will be powered by the Arduino's USB power source when it is attached to the computer. There are many other ways to power this device.

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Plug one end of an Ethernet cable into your Ethernet Shield, and the other end of the cable into a suitable ethernet socket on your network switch, router or similar device. Connect the Arduino to your computer via the USB cable, and check that the Arduino IDE is set to the appropriate COM port. Your Arduino and Ethernet Shield are now powered by USB and ready for a sketch. Open the Arduino IDE, and navigate to File > Examples > Ethernet > WebServer. An example sketch will open. Update the "ip[]" value near the top of the WebServer sketch to suit the settings for your network. The IP address must be within your network range, but not used by any other computer. Note that the IP address numbers must be comma-separated rather than dot-separated because they are stored as separate array elements.

6. Select Sketch > Verify / Compile to check that the sketch compiles without errors. 7. Select File > Upload to I/O Board to upload the sketch to your Arduino. 8. Open a web browser on your computer, and go to the IP address you set for your Arduino in step 5. You should see
a web page containing values read from the analog inputs or your Arduino, which will be semi-random numbers since they aren't connected to anything. You can now try any other example code or projects designed for the Ethernet Shield.

Online Resources
There's a wealth of information, sketches and libraries out on the internet for all things Arduino related. If there's a useful function, IC or shield there is likely to be some example code or a library to support it. And it's being added to almost daily as people like yourself create new solutions and share their projects and code to suit. The official Arduino website includes a wealth of information including tutorials, a language reference, projects, and examples. Official Arduino site www.arduino.cc Arduino discussion forum Freetronics resources page Freeduino knowledgebase www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl www.freetronics.com/resources www.freeduino.org

IRC channel Network: irc.freenode.net. Channel: #arduino A Google search for "arduino projects", "arduino code" or "arduino examples" is recommended too.

Arduino Books
Getting Started With Arduino by Massimo Banzi (O'Reilly)
A gentle introduction to using your Arduino for the first time: how to connect it up, load programs onto it, and do some basic experiments to give you a feel for how it works. Great introduction for the first-time Arduino user. 128 pages.

www.oreilly.com/pub/pr/2115 Practical Arduino by Jonathan Oxer and Hugh Blemings (Apress)

Taking you far beyond the basics, this book blends theory and practice by using example projects to illustrate some of the more advanced things you can do with Arduino and how to apply those same concepts to your own designs. After working through this book you'll be very confident designing and building your own Arduino creations. 445 pages.

www.practicalarduino.com

Ethernet Shield Features

The Freetronics Ethernet Shield uses Arduino digital I/O pins 10, 11, 12, and 13 for SPI communication between the Arduino and the shield. Pin 10 is the CS (select) line that must be uniquely assigned to only one SPI device, while the other lines are shared between devices. The Wiznet chipset's "enable" pin has been slaved to the CS line so that it will relinquish the SPI bus when not selected, allowing other SPI devices to share the same bus. LAN status and power LEDs are also provided. Speeds of 10/100Mbps are supported. Specifications Wiznet W5100 Rectified connections exposed PoE Support on PoE header I/O Pins Used By Shield 10, 11, 12, 13 used for SPI Max Simultaneous Connections 4 Chipset

Power-over-Ethernet Options
The Freetronics Ethernet Shield can use Power-over-Ethernet to draw power from the network for itself, your Arduino, and any other shields you may have connected. To make it as flexible as possible the Ethernet Shield itself does not implement any on-board PoE voltage regulation, but provides a 4-pin PoE header that you can use in several different ways depending on your requirements. All the PoE schemes described below require two basic elements: "Power Sourcing Equipment" (or "PSE") located inside or near your Ethernet switch to "inject" power onto the network cable, and the "Powered Device" (or "PD", in this case your Arduino and Ethernet Shield) to extract and use the power. A more detailed explanation of Power-over-Ethernet schemes can be found on the Freetronics website at www.freetronics.com/poe.

DIY 7-12Vdc Power-over-Ethernet

This is the cheapest approach because your Ethernet Shield does not need to perform any voltage pre-regulation. Strip back the insulation near the end of your network cable and connect a DC power jack as explained at www.freetronics.com/poe, or use a device such as the Freetronics 4-Channel Power-over-Ethernet Midspan Injector ( www.freetronics.com/poeinjector-4ch) to inject between 7Vdc and 12Vdc onto the network cable. Because your Arduino can safely operate on that input voltage range you can fit the pair of supplied 2-way jumper headers onto the Ethernet Shield PoE header so that you connect " GND" and "PoE-" together with one jumper, and "VIN" and "PoE+" together with the other jumper. Any power you inject onto the network cable as described at the URL above will then be passed directly through to your Arduino's on-board voltage regulator to be reduced to 5V. Warning: do not fit these jumpers if your network uses commercial 802.3af/at PoE, which operates at around 48Vdc and will damage your Arduino.

DIY 14-24Vdc Power-over-Ethernet

Many DIY Power-over-Ethernet systems operate at 16Vdc, 18Vdc, or 24Vdc, which is too high to feed directly to the on-board voltage regulator on your Arduino without generating excessive heat. To operate on a network with a PoE supply between 14Vdc and 24Vdc you must first fit a PoE Regulator 24V (www.freetronics.com/poe-regulator-24v) to your Ethernet Shield. The PoE Regulator 24V is a tiny daughter-board that fits onto the PoE header and mounts over part of the prototyping area on the Ethernet Shield, and includes a 12V voltage regulator that pre-regulates the supplied voltage down to 12V before it is passed on to the Arduino for further regulation down to 5V. Detailed installation instructions are included with the PoE Regulator 24V, and more information is available on the product page linked above.

Commercial 802.3af / 802.3at Power-over-Ethernet

Commercial PoE equipment that complies with the 802.3af or 802.3at standards supplies around 48Vdc on the network, and uses a signalling scheme to allow powered devices to negotiate a power budget with the Power Sourcing Equipment. To operate on an 802.3af/at network your Ethernet Shield requires a PoE Regulator 802.3 (www.freetronics.com/poeregulator-8023) that implements the necessary voltage regulation and signalling scheme. This module will be available soon from Freetronics. Warning: Do not connect your Arduino and Ethernet Shield to a commercial PoE-enabled network with either the jumper headers or the PoE-Regulator-24V fitted. They are not rated to operate at 48Vdc.

About Freetronics
Freetronics is an Australian company created by Jonathan Oxer and Marc Alexander to provide cheap and easy access to hardware, parts, and products related to Arduino projects and the Practical Arduino book. Learn more at www.freetronics.com. Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/freetronics.