User's Manual

FutureWaves™ User Manual

FutureWaves™ v1.7.0.1

General Tab

The General Tab is broken up into three subsections: ‘Start UI’, ‘SMS’, and ‘Settings’. This is

displayed in Figure 27.

Figure 27: The

General Tab

in the

Control & Settings Panel

Start UI

This section contains one button that is labeled ‘Start’ when the GUI is first launched. Clicking

this connects the GUI to the FutureWaves™ network so that it can begin receiving data. Once

the system is connected, this button becomes disenabled and the text reads ‘Ready to transmit’.

Control

This section contains one button labeled ‘Restart’ that restarts the Ship Motion Sensor (SMS)

located in the Equipment locker

Settings

The ‘Planning Source’ was briefly discussed in the

Planning

panel section. This setting controls

the source of what is displayed 2DPS and the CSRM. The default is to have it set to ‘Radar’,

which sets the source to be the live radar feed. When the user selects ‘Buoy’, the source changes

to be the selected wave bulletin. Note that for the multi-radar system the ‘Radar’ option is

replaced with ‘Radar Combined’, ‘Radar 1’, and ‘Radar 2’ options. That sets the source to be

from the combined radar system, only the first radar, or only the second radar, respectively. Also

note that this dropdown will be disabled until the system is connected to the FutureWaves™

network.

The ‘Depth’ section displays the depth and allows the user to override this depth. If the depth is

not currently overridden, the ‘Clear Override’ button will be disabled. To override the depth,

select ‘Override’, enter in a depth, and click ‘Ok’ (refer to Figure 28). At this point the ‘Clear