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Chapter
4
Operating Instructions
Flexi Soft Gateways
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Mounting and basic
configuration of the gateways
4.3.1
Establishing a connection between gateway and PC
Connect a PC or notebook to the RS-232 interface of the FX3-CPUx.
Power up the Flexi Soft System.
Open the Flexi Soft Designer configuration tool installed on the PC.
Click on
Edit com. interface settings
to ensure the correct communication interface
has been selected. The following dialog appears:
To edit the settings, click on the pencil icon to the right. The following dialog appears:
Modify the settings if required and click
OK
.
Click
OK
. The dialog closes.
Click on
Connect to physical device
. The Flexi Soft Designer will search for connected
Flexi Soft devices and load the hardware configuration into the hardware configuration
dialog. Once all modules have been identified correctly, the Flexi Soft Designer will ask
whether the configuration shall be uploaded.
Click
Yes
to upload the configuration.
Fig. 6: Connection settings
dialog
Fig. 7: Modify profile dialog