GW301 Cellular Gateway Lights
Roles: Technician
Last Updated: June 2020
The GW301 Cellular Gateway has four LED lights across the bottom. These lights are used to indicate the health and status of the Gateway.
The first light from the left is the Power Indicator. This light indicates whether the Gateway is powered on and if the Gateway has a valid Internet connection to the NextCentury Cloud.
- Blue
- Power on AND connected to the NextCentury Cloud
- Green
- Powered on but NOT connected to the NextCentury Cloud
- Red
- Loss of power; Gateway shutting down
- Off
- No power; Gateway off
- Green
- Programmed to property
- Blinking Green
- Programmed and using Direct Connect
- Blinking Yellow
- Not programmed and using Direct Connect
- Off
- Not programmed
When a Gateway is successfully programmed to a property it will begin communicating with other devices programmed to the same property. The Gateway must connect to the Cloud at least once to save this programming.
If the Internet connection to the Cloud is lost the Gateway will continue to collect reads based on the last saved programming. Once the connection is restored, the collected reads will be then be updated and visible on the NextCentury Web Portal or Mobile App.
The third light from the left is the RF Activity Indicator. This light flashes as devices communicate with the Gateway.
- Blue
- Programmed NextCentury device communicating
- Green
- Unprogrammed NextCentury device communicating
- Yellow
- Programmed 3rd Party device communicating
- Red
- Unprogrammed 3rd Party device communicating
- Off
- No RF activity
The rightmost light is the Cellular Indicator. This light shows the cellular signal strength currently available. This light breathes in and out when cellular services are enabled.
- Green
- Good cellular signal
- Yellow
- Fair cellular signal
- Red
- Poor cellular signal
- Off
- No cellular signal