CHAPTER THREE - PL3000 BASICS
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In addition to using the AskTime, the ‘Settings’ page instructs you to start the
SNTP client.
Note!
Nordic ID PL3000 has no Real Time Clock chip, meaning that the
system does not maintain the time over the resets other than a warm boot.
NID Tilt Switch
On the PL3000, there is a sensor that reacts to shake and impact. The sensor
device is called ‘tilt switch’. With a NID Tilt Switch applet you can apply the tilt
switch to the following power management properties: powering the system up (a
‘Wakeup automatically’ feature), and keeping the system awake (a ‘Keep alive’
feature).
When you move sharply up and down your PL3000 such as with a quick flick
of the wrist so that the tilt switch reacts to it, the tilt switch signals the power
management of the PL3000. If the ‘Wakeup automatically’ property is enabled and
your PL3000 is suspended the quick flick of your wrist powers your device up. On
the other hand, if the ‘Keep alive’ feature is enabled, the signal from the tilt switch
functions as a user input. For example, when your PL3000 is running in one of its
two intermediate power-saving modes, the quick flick of your wrist energizes your
device by turning on the backlight of the screen, and the screen itself, depending
on the power-saving state in which the device was before the tilt switch trigger.
NID Touch Screen
Using this applet you can disable (also enable) the touch screen device.
NID Trigger Button
If your PL3000 is furnished with the pistol grip option, using a NID Trigger
Button applet you can alter the virtual key code mapping of the trigger button
mounted in the pistol grip. By default the button press triggers an optical tag reader
or an RFID communication, depending on the optional device elements on your
PL3000. With the applet you can also assign the launch of some executable to the
trigger button.
NID WWAN
A NID WWAN applet has a quality that is different from others in the group of
the control panel applets. It may well be that you cannot get the applet opened but
a ‘fatal error’ message – ‘Unable to open the MHL WWAN driver!’ – appears on the
screen. The error message pops up if there is no GPRS modem on the PL3000. In
other words, the error message does not necessarily say that the system on your
device is in a state of disorder but that you may need the PL3000 that incorporates