The GUI is used to configure SatSCADA terminals either locally via a serial port or remotely over-the-air.
Click this to get the SatSCADA GUI installers. View the README.txt and CHANGELOG.txt for details.
The SatSCADA GUI software is licensed to the customer by Bentek Systems for use with a SatSCADA terminal and airtime subscription.
When you start the GUI it will display this window.
The GUI screen layout has five main parts:
If you have never installed the GUI on your computer then follow the Install instructions. If you have installed it before and want to upgrade to a new version you need to first uninstall by following the Uninstall instructions then follow the Upgrade instructions.
Once you have successfully installed the GUI you can start it.
Use tool tips and the help viewer to get more information.
The menu is the bar at the top of the main window that has these choices:
The GUI Help > Contents has information similar to what is in this user guide but can be read where there is no web access or where the web access is slow. Opening topics on your hard drive is normally faster than accessing help over the web.
The navigation pane is the tree structure on the left side of the main window. It is used to navigate between forms. Each form is used to edit a set of related configuration parameters.
The forms are organized into these categories:
Clicking an entry in the navigation pane causes the status bar to be cleared and the form being moved from to be validated. A new status bar message may result if a validation error occurs. If the navigation pane entry that is clicked is for the current form then the same action occurs. This offers a method of validating a form without moving off it.
There is a set of internal registers that can be referred to internally by the Polls, Tags, and Onboard I/O configuration forms. They can be accessed externally using the SatSCADA Proxy.
There is a bar at the bottom of the main window that has five text fields. From left to right these are:
| Status Message | This is a status area that has warnings, errors, and informative messages. Background colour is red for errors and warnings and green for informative messages. Cleared by clicking it, by clicking an entry in the navigation pane, or by clicking File > New. |
| Callout Pause Status | When callouts are paused by clicking the Pause button on the Tags form a message is shown in the area with a decrementing counter showing how much longer callouts will be paused. Background colour is yellow until the counter decrements to zero. Clicking the Resume button also clears this area. |
| Connection Status | The middle text box indicates whether the GUI is connected to a terminal or not. This box has the two values 'Connected' or 'Not Connected'. |
| Terminal Number | Terminal number that uniquely identifies a terminal assigned to this user id. When connected, the tool tip for this field will change to the site name which has is description of where the device is installed or other identifying information. Both the Terminal Number and Site Name are also displayed in the Info form. |
| Connection Port Identifier | The right text box shows the port used to connect to the terminal. If serial is used the value is a port identifer on your PC. If over-the-air is used the value is the mobile id of the terminal. If SSH is used the value is the ip address of the terminal. If there is no connection then this text box is empty. |