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Quickstart

PNUT 101: Using templates to quickly create a network.

1. Sign In​

Signing in lands you on your account page. Note that PNUT requires a premium CloudRF plan or a private server.

account page post-login landing

2. Import Templates​

Templates save you rebuilding the same radio setup by hand every time. From your account's Templates section, import two legacy templates to work with: PMR446-Mobile and PMR446-Repeater.

import modal open over the Account view, a couple of templates selected

Give each template a distinct icon so they're easy to tell apart at a glance once they're on a map. Do this by clicking on the icon for each template in the list.

icon picker while assigning a template icon

Templates are stored on your account, not inside any one project - every project you create from now on can draw on them.

3. Create a Project​

Create a new project and give it a sensible name.

create-project modal with a name filled in

Search the map for Ibiza to bring it into view.

geocoder search with "Ibiza" typed and results showing

Open the left sidebar - the templates you imported sit in a Templates panel underneath the network list.

Templates panel in the left sidebar, showing the imported templates

Drag a template from the panel onto the map to drop a radio using that template's settings. Repeat for a few positions around the island.

The template settings are copied on to the radio, but you are then free to change a radio's settings (including its name) using the right sidebar.

a few radios placed around the map, refreshed to Ibiza

Press Calculate (the green button, or the Space key). PNUT works out coverage for every radio and then displays the result as a layer on the map.

coverage heatmaps after pressing Calculate

4. Add a Separate Network​

On the left sidebar you can see Network 1 holding the radios you've placed so far.

left sidebar open, the single Network 1 expanded with its radios

Click Add network to create a second, empty network alongside it.

new empty second network, both expanded

Colour the two networks differently so they're easy to distinguish on the map - open a network's colour dialog and pick a colour for each.

network colour dialog

With the new network selected, drag more radios onto the map - they join that network.

From here you can go further: link a network's radios together as mesh links, study individual connections with path profiles, or combine a network's coverage into one merged heatmap.

final state: Network 1 and Network 2, each coloured differently, with radios and coverage on the map

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