User manual

105G Wirless Gateway User Manual
Page 143 ©February 2009
To stop the decoding of “comms logging”, select the “Stop Comms” button. You should then
also stop the 105G from outputting radio comms by pulling up the terminal menu (i.e. press
“terminal” and then hit enter in the terminal screen) and selecting “d) Disable Comms Logging”.
Option e) Add Time Stamps
This option in the debug menu will add a timestamp to each displayed radio message. The
timestamp is based on the 105G internal real time clock. This option is normally used only if
monitoring is done from a terminal package only, and configuration software is not being used to
decode the communications.
When configuration software is being used to decode the radio comms (see above) time stamps
can be added by selecting the “Time Stamps” checkbox. This will display the current time and
date (according to the PC Clock) alongside each message. The “Comms log” can be saved to a
file for future reference by selecting “Log to File”.
Option f) Current System Address only
This option will ensure that only radio messages that have the same system address as the
connected 105G are displayed. If you have another system with a different system address these
messages will not be displayed if you choose this option. This option is useful where there is
more than one system in the same area so that only the radio messages relevant to the desired
system will be displayed.
Option g) Display Configured Protocol Driver
This option displays the configured Protocol Driver for this unit e.g.
Configured Protocol is: Ethernet TCP-IT
Option h, i, j, k) Enable/Disable Fieldbus Read/Write Area
(These options not available on the Modbus/DF1 version)
This option is used to halt data exchange between the Fieldbus Interface and the Radio Interface
(I/O Registers). This is mainly used when trying to read or write image arrays. If the Fieldbus
read area “h” is not disabled when trying to read or write to the I/O registers then the value in the
Fieldbus database will overwrite the I/O register and you may get an incorrect value.
When doing read/write image array and the module has been configured with Fieldbus
mappings, you may need to disable the Fieldbus read area option h. This stops the Fieldbus
database overwriting the radio database.