i am not new to the ethernet shield.. i already know how to use the digital I/O pins to run some relays using visual studio as my uI.. now i want to to the same but with ethernet shield so i could control relays via internet... i dont know where to start and where will i end.. could someone give me the steps i needed to do.. i just want to do the same as those who place ther videos in the youtube using ethernet shield.. sorry but its only months since i started in learning arduino.. a reply will be really appreciated.. thank you
Have a look at the Ethernet shield tutorials:
Particularly
It is also worth reading a bit about tcp/udp (the two main protocols for communicating over Ethernet) to get a better understanding of how these programs work.
You will obviously need some software running on your pc as , if you want to use a web browser to do it, then the webserver tutorial is going to be useful, you may find it easier at first though to build a very simple udp client on your pc and send commands with that (the implementation for this is much shorter).
Some simple web page control test code.
//zoomkat 4-1-12
//simple button GET for servo and pin 5
//for use with IDE 1.0
//open serial monitor to see what the arduino receives
//use the \ slash to escape the " in the html, or use ' instead of "
//address will look like http://192.168.1.102:84 when submited
//for use with W5100 based ethernet shields
#include <SPI.h>
#include <Ethernet.h>
#include <Servo.h>
Servo myservo; // create servo object to control a servo
byte mac[] = { 0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFE, 0xED }; //physical mac address
byte ip[] = { 192, 168, 1, 102 }; // ip in lan
byte gateway[] = { 192, 168, 1, 1 }; // internet access via router
byte subnet[] = { 255, 255, 255, 0 }; //subnet mask
EthernetServer server(84); //server port
String readString;
//////////////////////
void setup(){
pinMode(5, OUTPUT); //pin selected to control
//start Ethernet
Ethernet.begin(mac, ip, gateway, gateway, subnet);
server.begin();
myservo.write(90); //set initial servo position if desired
myservo.attach(7); //the pin for the servo control
//enable serial data print
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.println("server servo/pin 5 test 1.0"); // so I can keep track of what is loaded
}
void loop(){
// Create a client connection
EthernetClient client = server.available();
if (client) {
while (client.connected()) {
if (client.available()) {
char c = client.read();
//read char by char HTTP request
if (readString.length() < 100) {
//store characters to string
readString += c;
//Serial.print(c);
}
//if HTTP request has ended
if (c == '\n') {
///////////////
Serial.println(readString); //print to serial monitor for debuging
client.println("HTTP/1.1 200 OK"); //send new page
client.println("Content-Type: text/html");
client.println();
client.println("<HTML>");
client.println("<HEAD>");
client.println("<TITLE>Arduino GET test page</TITLE>");
client.println("</HEAD>");
client.println("<BODY>");
client.println("<H1>Zoomkat's simple Arduino button</H1>");
client.println("<a href=\"/?on\">ON</a>");
client.println("<a href=\"/?off\">OFF</a>");
client.println("</BODY>");
client.println("</HTML>");
delay(1);
//stopping client
client.stop();
///////////////////// control arduino pin
if(readString.indexOf("on") >0)//checks for on
{
myservo.write(40);
digitalWrite(5, HIGH); // set pin 5 high
Serial.println("Led On");
}
if(readString.indexOf("off") >0)//checks for off
{
myservo.write(140);
digitalWrite(5, LOW); // set pin 5 low
Serial.println("Led Off");
}
//clearing string for next read
readString="";
}
}
}
}
}
i just logged in sir.. thank you for the code.. i will try it now.. with ethernet shield using ur LAN ip, can i open that address form another browser with different network? cause what im thinking is that i can control my arduino via internet right? so is it like that i can control it around the world? thank you for a reply