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The bus monitor of
the Enertex
®
EibPC
Connection status feedback
Connection indicator and status
Two bus monitors
Save bus data
Typical bus data
Current bus communication
By the menu E
IB
PC → R
ETRIEVE
EIB-M
ESSAGES
you can check the status of the network connection. If
this option is set, the current connection status is displayed on the left lower message pane.
will suffice. If the Enertex
®
EibPC is connected with the
Enertex
®
EibStudio, the button will change to and the status display will change from the status “?“
to “Connected to 192.168.22.133“ (if the latter is the specified network address of the Enertex
®
EibPC).
Figure 13: Connection status
The Enertex
®
EibPC has two ring buffers. The larger of the two stores up to 500,000 messages and
is designed for long-term studies. No PC needs to be connected while recording with the Enertex
®
EibPC is performed. The second ring buffer for 10 telegrams is intended for the observation of the
current bus traffic. Here you have the ability to filter for specific sender addresses (devices) and
group address and to query only relevant data.
To collect the telegrams accumulated in the Enertex
®
EibPC, click in menu E
IB
PC on R
ETRIEVE
EIB-
M
ESSAGES
. In the bottom left of the status bar you will see the progress in the collection of telegrams.
The speed of the transmission of telegrams depends primarily on the performance of your PC.
If all messages are picked up or the transmission is interrupted, a dialog appears. By this dialog, you
can save these telegrams into a CSV file. This CSV file is a text file storing the data tabularly. The
individual data are separated by commas. Then, you can import the data into Microsoft
®
Excel or
OpenOffice Calc or into a spreadsheet program of your choice.
Figure 14: Import of recording data in OpenOffice
In Microsoft
®
Excel, select the sub menu I
MPORT
within the dialog D
ATA
. In the following, best choose
the format described as “text“ and the text label as {no}. Similarly, you proceed at OpenOffice Calc
®
.
In this manner, you get data in the format of Figure 14.
Additionally, the current bus communication can be made visible. Activate the option “pick EIB
telegrams / Connection Status“ or click on the button . If the Enertex
®
EibPC is connected with the
Enertex
®
.
Now, in the window “Messages“ all the telegrams are provided which were just written on the bus.
Figure 15 shows a typical excerpt from the message window, which is self-explanatory.
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®
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