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General

Used to display and/or enter parameters that apply to the application as a whole.

Hardware Variant The type of SatSCADA terminal the config applies to. Can be UNKNOWN, SAT100, SAT110, SAT120, SAT130. If SAT110 is selected then the Onboard I/O form will display only three pins. If UNKNOWN after a Device > Config > Get then the terminal is not supported or the firmware has been corrupted. You can't select UNKNOWN as an option, it is only used when reading from the device
App Version The firmware application version. Either read config from terminal, read config from server, open a config.xml file, click get button to read version from the terminal, manually select the version from the drop down list, or enter a version number and press return. If 0.0.0 the version is not known
Time Zone Offset from UTC in the standard format ±[hh]:[mm] where hh is hours and mm< is minutes. Default is -07:00 which is Mountain Standard Time (MST)
LED Enable If checked the terminal LED is used. For battery or solar powered terminals it is best to keep this off.
Wakeup Interval The interval between modem wake ups for receiving satellite messages.
Buffer Timeout Outbound over-the-air buffer timeout in 1/10 second units.
Power Mode The modem's main power operating mode.
GPS Update The update frequency, in seconds, for the position information. Setting it to 0 disables automatic updating. For most low power applications, the default is the desired setting.
Enable Satellite If checked satellite access is enabled. Always enabled for SAT100/SAT110. Can be disabled for SAT120/SAT130 but only when cell is enabled.
Power Save If checked, enables the terminal power saving (low power) feature.

Accelerometer

A group of parameters for the SAT110 and SAT120 accelerometer.

Enable If checked the accelerometer is enabled. If motion detection is not needed uncheck this flag to save power.
Threshold If the magnitude of the acceleration exceeds this limit for 'debounce count' number of contiguous check intervals the terminal is vibrating (milli G).
Check Interval The number of seconds in a time interval where the terminal acceleration is checked to see if it is above the threshold.
Debounce Count The number of contiguous check intervals where if the threshold is exceeded the terminal is vibrating.

Cell

A group of parameters for SAT120 and SAT130 cell access.

Enable If checked cell access is enabled.
APN Access Point Name used to connect to an IP network using the SIM. Two popular APN values are provided in the drop-down: staticipwest.telus.com and wrmstatic.bell.ca.ioe but you can enter any value that corresponds to the type of SIM card you are using.
Address The name, or IP address, of a server to connect to for sending messages. Normally satscada.com is entered since that is the primary server.
Port The port number on server to connect to for sending messages.
Delay Time to delay, in .1 sec intervals, after a disconnection before another reconnection attempt is made. Currently only used with Virtual Serial Server mode.
Restart If checked and if the terminal is not connected via cell for the specified time, then the terminal will do a restart. Time is specified in .1 sec units.

ASCII Terminal

Parameters for controlling ASCII terminal usage. The display unit must be connected to the RS-232 port. Tag names and values are output.

Enable If checked the ASCII terminal is enabled.
Delay Time between dislay updates (.1 sec).
Auto Scroll If checked the ascii terminal automatically scrolls to the next tag every 'delay' amount of time.

FTP

Parameters for ftp transfer via satellite and cell. The user connects to the terminal locally using an ftp client over ethernet or wifi. The ip address and login credentials are provided by Bentek and are hardwired in the terminal.

When a file is transferred from the user's client computer (e.g. a laptop) to the terminal it is then forwarded to a remote ftp server via satellite or cell using sat/cell fail-over. The remote ftp server is owned by the customer and the parameters for it are entered using this form. The customer can host their own ftp server or request that Bentek host it.

Enable If checked ftp is enabled.
Host Host name or ip address of an ftp server used to receive files from the terminal. Must be lower and upper case letters and digits. The only special characters permitted are period, hyphen, and underscore.
Username Username of the ftp server account where files will be posted. Must be lower and upper case letters and digits. No special characters.
Password Password of the ftp server account. Must be lower and upper case letters and digits. No special characters. Up to 16 characters.
Delay Time to delay between scans when checking for new files in the terminal's watched folder (.1 sec).
Routing Channel to be used for the data transfer: cell only, satellite/cell fail over, or satellite only.
gui/general.txt · Last modified: 2018/07/20 17:50 by dmeier