As people's dependence on the Internet continues to increase, more and more devices in the home begin to support network connectivity, support smart operations, and expand from previous computers and mobile phones to TVs, stereos, air, and water. Equipment, the demand for networking is also increasingly prominent, and the daily home network cable layout is often in the new house when the layout, until the completion of the house, the basic wired network frame layout has been set, so the latter network expansion will generally be based on wifi wireless coverage , And wifi dead angle problem has always plagued every household. Today Xiaobian has the privilege of participating in a network device experience event that controls guest power cats at the Extreme Rice Forum, which brings new imagination space to home network expansion.
In the past, in order to solve the problem of home wifi signal dead angle, the author will adopt the deployment of WIFI repeater. Whether it is using WPS protocol or WISP protocol, its core is to use multiple routing devices to relay and amplify wifi signals. , In order to achieve the purpose of increasing the coverage of the wifi signal, but the consequent drawbacks are also very obvious. When the load of the relay equipment network is overloaded, the signal transmission will result in packet loss, buffer overflow, etc., which will affect the signal transmission quality. The inherent instability of multiple wifi relay devices also often leads to instability in the home network. As the author tries to control the network layout of guest power cats.
The controlling guest power cat's full name is “Controlling Passenger Power Carrier Routerâ€. It is developed by Hangzhou Controlled Passenger Information Technology Co., Ltd. The product packaging style is controlled by the customer's product style. Only the KONKE logo is on the front, and it is clean and simple.
The back of the box is printed with the relevant parameters of the product. By scanning the two-dimensional code, you can access the official guest website to learn more about the product, and you can also download the customer power cat app.
The control guest cats are equipped with two standard power cats. They are used together. The appearance design is very compact. The three indicators on the front are: power/wifi signal indicator, network indicator, and PLC signal indicator.
A random RJ45 network cable is included, and the packing list is also very simple. There are only two guest power cats, one RJ45 cable, and one manual.
The standard network cable does not use the traditional cylindrical cable, but instead adopts the flat noodles type, which is more compact and the network cable is more foldable.
Similar to the mini-router design style, the guest control power cat also has relevant product model, parameters and gateway management address information on the back of the fuselage.
There are two types of power cats that are popular on the market, namely RJ-45 interface type and USB interface type. From the perspective of the bottom interface of the controller, the guest power cat is a power cat of the RJ-45 standard interface type, which is the most important type of Ethernet. Common interface. Beside the RJ-45 interface, the power cat has a reset and pairing button, click to pair, long press for more than 10 seconds can be restored to the factory settings, very hidden.
Controlled passenger power cats adopt hollow heat dissipation design on both sides, which can ensure that during the long period of operation, there will be no deadlock or stuck machine due to insufficient heat dissipation.
Each guest power cat has a unique set of wifi mac and PLC mac, which are attached to the top of the host.
Controlling passenger power cats regardless of master-slave, can be arbitrarily interchangeable, plug and play, in the process of setting up a network, you can plug in any power cat power, with a network cable to connect the power cat and router LAN port, it should be noted that If the LAN port is not a LAN port but a WAN port at this time, only the power indicator and the network indicator will be off.
Even when the network port is not connected, when the two guest power cats are powered on at the same time, the PLC signal indicator lights up at this time, which means that the pairing of other power cats is completed at this time.
In normal installation, you need to connect any of the power cats' network cable ports to the router's LAN port. At this time, the three LEDs of the customer's power cat will be in the on state, indicating that all the installation operations are correct at this time. In the transmission state, the power/wifi signal indicator and the network indicator will both be in the blinking state, while the PLC signal indicator blinks to indicate that they are trying to pair with other power cats.
After the installation is completed, about 10 seconds after the start-up time, the nearby wifi signal is scanned, and the wifi signal of “KK-PLC_XXX†can be seen. Each power cat will send a wifi signal and access any wifi signal at this time. Both can access the Internet normally.
The user can scan the QR code of the outer box and enter the “K-Smart†app on the guest website. Through this software, more functions of the power cat can be realized. After the app is opened, the main interface will scan the LAN automatically. Identify LAN devices, you can see two power cats have been lit, users can regularly update the firmware through the device information, the official will continue to optimize the power cat performance, but also develop more software plug-ins, so that the power cat to achieve more Functional expansion.
If the user needs to modify the default wifi name of the power cat or add a new wifi password, the user can click on the corresponding power cat to enter the specific setting item in the app, and modify it in the security setting column. If you need to view the power cat connection device, you can also The interface displays the corresponding device name and MAC address. The LPC technology also has a built-in smart configuration function in the power cat. The user can configure the smart device through one-touch connection, configure smart devices, and connect more control devices to each other. More Fun play.
When the power cat is offline, the app icon page will display the offline status intuitively. Clicking the power cat icon at this time will prompt the device to be offline and inform you how to solve the offline problem. Although the UI interface is rough, the text Humanized tips are very good and easy to understand.
In the small K smart app, some application plug-ins for future smart scenes are also built in, and they are more forward-looking and interesting. In a crowd-sourcing mode, users can contribute their own settings files intelligently and share it to users for downloading. The configuration files are collectively referred to as “scenesâ€, that is, different intelligent scene configuration files. If a small white user needs to experience a smart connected device scenario, the corresponding scenario can be selected for downloading, and the guest user also encourages the user to perform the scenario in the form of K coins. Share, K currency as the controlling currency of the guest technology, can be used to purchase physical objects in the mall, the use of some cash amount, at the same time, the customer also supports the WeChat link function, after opening the WeChat connection, it will be received through the customer-controlled WeChat public number The status information of key equipment such as human body induction, smoke sense, door magnetism, etc. is full of interest.
Experience summary:
Controlled guest power cats are another smart home product of LKT. Through the traditional simple equipment, the intelligent upgrade of the Internet era has enabled ordinary devices to have the function of smart interconnection. The era of smart home and the Internet of Things are constantly colliding with new sparks. In the past, the home network wifi relay layout was very skillful, and it was usually a friend who was proficient in the network before it was able to perform network deployment. Now, only two guest power cats are needed, and a fool-like simple operation can complete network expansion.