Sperry Marine Visionmaster FT ECDIS, User Manual

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System ECDIS User Guide
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Service
The Service tab folder displays the following
navigation tree items:
•
Communications

Port Monitor

Port Logging
•
PCIO

PCIO diagnostic form
The Communications sub menu enables the following data to be viewed:
•
Port Monitor - view data received from all ports or a selected port
type and data sent from the display to the port. Available for display
to a non-logged on user.
•
Port Logging - enables data sent and received from a specified port
to be captured and timestamped. Logged data can then be saved
to an external device. Available for display to a non-logged on user.
Port Monitor
1. To view Port Monitor data click on the Communic button,
highlight Port Monitor in the tree menu and click on the Display
Selected button at the bottom of the tab folder. A Port Monitor
communications window is displayed which can be moved and
scaled to suit.
2. The I/O/ Port Type defaults to viewing diagnostic data on all
configured ports. To test the diagnostics on the control port only
select
PCIO Control Port from the drop down list. To test the
diagnostics on all the serial ports on the PCIO select PCIO Serial
Port . The Configured Port list will display the configured port or
port types as selected in the I/O Port Type.
3. The Port Monitor window view options default to separate Received
and Sent data fields and data viewed as ASCII. To change these
default options click in the
Combined button to view all data in the
same field and click in the Binary button to view data as binary
code.
4. With all required settings made click on the Start button. The Port
Monitor window displays real time received and sent data for the
selected port and the
Start button changes to Stop .
5. To halt the port monitor process click on the Stop button. The port
monitor stops its updating based on data being sent or received.