Programming - First steps
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Monitoring of bus
services (Monitor)
Caches 500,000 messages
Storing messages
Retrieve messages
CSV: Comma-separated text file
with data of your bus
communication
The “Logging“ of bus transfers
facilitates the diagnosis of faults and
far-reaching improvements
Save to File
Online telegrams
The EibPC stores up to 500,000 messages in a ring buffer. These can be collected, monitored and
stored in a file, e.g. to analyze these data by Microsoft
®
Excel or OpenOffice Calc.
When recording, the PC has
not
to be connected with the Enertex
®
EibPC.
To collect the messages accumulated in the Enertex
®
EibPC, click in menu E
IB
PC on R
ETRIEVE
EIB-
M
ESSAGES
. In the status bar bottom left you will see the progress in the collection of messages. The
speed of the transmission of messages depends primarily on the performance of your PC.
If all messages are picked up or the transmission is interrupted, a dialog appears. By means of this
dialog, you can save these messages into a CSV file. This CSV file is a text file that stores 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 17: Import of recording data in OpenOffice
In Microsoft
®
Excel, select the submenu I
MPORT
within the dialog D
ATA
. In the following, best choose
the format described as “text“ and the text label as {no}.
Additionally, the current bus communication can be made visible. Activate the option “Retrieve EIB-
M
ESSAGES
/ Connection Status“ or click on the button
. If the Enertex
®
EibPC is connected with the
Enertex
®
EibStudio, the button changes to
.
Now, in the window “Messages“ all the messages are provided, which were just written on bus.
Figure 18 shows a typical excerpt from the message window, which is self-explanatory.
Figure 18: Recalling EIB-Messages
Since the RS232-Interface does not supply a feedback over the connecting status, the EibPC sends
all telegrams, even if no bus connection is developed. Thus each code can be tested also without
bus connection.
Against it a defined handshake has the IP interface. The EibPC waits then for the feedback, before it
sends telegrams away.
HandbuchEibPC_USA-30.odt, 2017-05-11
Enertex
®
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