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Chapter 4
Installing and Using the FieldPoint Software
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Installing FieldPoint Software
Follow these steps to install your FieldPoint software:
1.
If you are using BridgeVIEW, LabVIEW, Lookout, or
LabWindows/CVI with FieldPoint, install these other application
programs
before
installing your FieldPoint software. The FieldPoint
software installation installs the BridgeVIEW server, LabVIEW VIs
and examples, Lookout driver class, and LabWindows/CVI instrument
driver only if it finds the corresponding application software installed.
2.
Insert the
FieldPoint Configuration and Server Software
disk number 1
into the floppy drive on your computer.
3.
Click on the Windows
Start
button, and then click on
Run
.
4.
Enter
a
:\setup
, where
a
is the letter of your floppy drive,
then select
OK
.
5.
Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation.
Note
Do not worry if the installation program does not ask you to insert all of the disks.
Depending on the software already installed on your computer, you might not need to use
all of the disks that you received.
Using FieldPoint Explorer
The FieldPoint Explorer is the configuration software for FieldPoint
hardware and software. The first step to using FieldPoint software is to run
the FieldPoint Explorer. You then use FieldPoint Explorer to configure the
programmable settings of the FieldPoint hardware, such as the input range
of an analog input module, or watchdog timer settings, or the power-up
values of output modules. From FieldPoint Explorer you define
I/O items
(which represent one or more physical I/O channels) that you want to write
to or read from. FieldPoint Explorer also provides a user interface from
which you can interactively read and write values of these I/O items to
verify that your FieldPoint system has been correctly installed and
configured.