Adjusting Wireless Adapter and wireless sensor settings
Wireless Sensors
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Field
Notes
Type
Denotes what the Wireless Adapter is communicating:
•
The sensor's value as an
Input
to the i-Vu® application.
•
An
Output
value from the i-Vu® application to the sensor.
•
2-way communication between the sensor and the i-Vu® application
(
Input/Output
).
Heartbeat
How frequently the sensor will send its value if no change of value has
initiated a transmission. This setting in the Wireless Adapter must be greater
than or equal to the heartbeat setting in the sensor. See
To edit a sensor's
settings
(page 41).
Tags
The sensor will produce the types of values represented by the Rnet tag
numbers. Rnet tags are used in the control program. See the
Wireless Sensors
Application Guide
for a complete list of Rnet tags.
To edit a sensor's settings
You can edit the settings in individual sensors, or you can create a custom Driver configuration that you can apply
to multiple sensors.
•
To edit individual sensors settings:
a. Select a sensor type in the
Driver
pane, and then press the Learn button on a sensor of
that type. See step 5 in
Pairing sensors to the Wireless Adapter
(page 23) for the location of a
sensor's Learn button.
b. In the
Devices
pane, select the sensor, and then edit its settings in the
Device
configuration
pane. See table below.
c. Right-click the sensor, and then select
Send configuration
.
d. Press the sensor's Learn button.
NOTE
If the sensor in the
Devices
pane has a red border, the changes were not sent
to sensor. Retry steps c and d.
e. Click
OK
to close the message box.
•
To create a custom Driver configuration that you can apply to sensors in the
Devices
pane:
a. In the
Driver
pane, select a sensor type, and then edit its settings in the
Device
configuration
pane. See table below.
b. Press the Learn button on a sensor of that type to have it appear in the
Devices
pane.
c. Right-click the sensor type in the
Driver
pane, and then select
Copy
.
d. Right-click a sensor in the
Devices
pane, and then select
Paste
.
e. Right-click the sensor again, and then select
Send configuration
.
e. Press the sensor's Learn button. See
Pairing sensors to the Wireless Adapter
(page 23),
step 4, for the location of a sensor's Learn button.
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