Ethernet shield programming This is first time programming with Ethernet shield . I want to test the web server application with my Arduino. I have an Arduino Uno, Ethernet shield, and a potentiometer. Below code being uploaded.

Question are:


Currently I am using LAN connection to configure. How to configure it? Is internet required for below application?
How do I check the output?
Is there any software where i can make customized tags?
I have values coming from the serial port to be monitored on webserver. Can someone share how to monitor it?






Ethernet shield

#include &lt;SPI.h&gt;
#include &lt;Ethernet.h&gt;

// Enter a MAC address and IP address for your controller below.
// The IP address will be dependent on your local network:
byte mac[] = { 
  0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFE, 0xED };
IPAddress ip(192,168,1,177);

// Initialize the Ethernet server library
// with the IP address and port you want to use 
// (port 80 is default for HTTP):
EthernetServer server(80);

void setup() {
 // Open serial communications and wait for port to open:
  Serial.begin(9600);
   while (!Serial) {
    ; // wait for serial port to connect. Needed for Leonardo only
  }


  // start the Ethernet connection and the server:
  Ethernet.begin(mac, ip);
  server.begin();
  Serial.print("server is at ");
  Serial.println(Ethernet.localIP());
}


void loop() {
  // listen for incoming clients
  EthernetClient client = server.available();
  if (client) {
    Serial.println("new client");
    // an http request ends with a blank line
    boolean currentLineIsBlank = true;
    while (client.connected()) {
      if (client.available()) {
        char c = client.read();
        Serial.write(c);
        // if you've gotten to the end of the line (received a newline
        // character) and the line is blank, the http request has ended,
        // so you can send a reply
        if (c == '\n' &amp;&amp; currentLineIsBlank) {
          // send a standard http response header
          client.println("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
          client.println("Content-Type: text/html");
          client.println("Connection: close");  // the connection will be closed after completion of the response
      client.println("Refresh: 5");  // refresh the page automatically every 5 sec
          client.println();
          client.println("&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;");
          client.println("&lt;html&gt;");
          // output the value of each analog input pin
          for (int analogChannel = 0; analogChannel &lt; 6; analogChannel++) {
            int sensorReading = analogRead(analogChannel);
            client.print("analog input ");
            client.print(analogChannel);
            client.print(" is ");
            client.print(sensorReading);
            client.println("&lt;br /&gt;");       
          }
          client.println("&lt;/html&gt;");
          break;
        }
        if (c == '\n') {
          // you're starting a new line
          currentLineIsBlank = true;
        } 
        else if (c != '\r') {
          // you've gotten a character on the current line
          currentLineIsBlank = false;
        }
      }
    }
    // give the web browser time to receive the data
    delay(1);
    // close the connection:
    client.stop();
    Serial.println("client disconnected");
  }
}
You need to determine what the network address is of the LAN you have connected the arduino to. A router can often give you this information. Alternatively you can connect a computer to the same network and look at the computers network settings (this varies depending on what OS you use). Then you have determine what IP address is available on that network. You will enter this in the ip variable in your example.

The internet is not required for your application, however you do need the arduino to be connected to a LAN and another device (probably a standard computer) to invoke the arduinos server behaviour.

To test that it works, you can open an internet browser on the second device and type in the IP address that you have configured for the arduino into the address bar.