Hello. I am a middle school science teacher looking to immerse my students in a STEAM environment. We have designed and built hydroponic growing systems that we would like to monitor and eventually automate using Arduino Uno R3 controllers. I would like to be able to send this data to the internet so that it can be read using widgets in Cayenne. I have had some success doing this by connecting the Arduino to my Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian Jessie using a serial-USB connection on my home wifi network.
Unfortunately, when at school, our network security is very restrictive. My IT department has issued me a static IP address, subnet mask, router address, and I have been using Google DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. With it I have successfully configured my Pi3 using an ethernet connection, but the network will not recognize the Arduino I have attached to the Pi3 using the serial_USB connection.
Now I am trying to manually assign a static IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and DNS to the Arduino using a W5100 ethernet shield so that I can connect it to Cayenne independently. If anyone could please lend me some advice based on your experience that would be amazing! Thank you so much.