Chapter 3
Hardware and Software Configuration
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FieldPoint FP-1600 User Manual
c.
If you only want the range and attribute settings you configured
in step 3 to be saved as power-up states, click on the OK button.
These settings get written to the non-volatile memory of the
network module when you write changes to the device in step 3.
d.
If you also want to save all the current watchdog and power-up
output states of the output channels, click on the Snapshot button
to store all of the output values of that bank of FieldPoint modules
to the power-up memory of the network module, then click on the
OK button when you are finished.
8.
When you are finished configuring the hardware settings and the
I/O Items, you must save your configuration file. Select File»Save
from the menu bar.
Use the FP-1600 with Other Applications
The following sections explain how to use the FP-1600 with other software
applications.
FieldPoint BridgeVIEW Server
The FieldPoint BridgeVIEW server is a device server based on the native
BridgeVIEW server architecture. The I/O Items you configured in the
FieldPoint Explorer become available to the BridgeVIEW server when
you export the configuration data from FieldPoint Explorer into the
BridgeVIEW common configuration database (CCDB). From within
BridgeVIEW, the Tag Configuration Wizard imports this configuration
information, creating a tag for every I/O Item you configured in the
FieldPoint Explorer. These tags are immediately accessible through the
BridgeVIEW real-time database.
To start using the FieldPoint server with BridgeVIEW, follow these steps:
1.
Configure your FieldPoint server and FP-1600 from FieldPoint
Explorer, as described in the
section of this chapter, and save your
configuration file.
2.
Select BridgeVIEW»Export to BridgeVIEW from the menu bar
of FieldPoint Explorer to export the current configuration file that you
saved to BridgeVIEW’s active CCDB. (If BridgeVIEW is not an
option on your FieldPoint Explorer’s menu bar, make sure that you
have installed the FieldPoint software after installing BridgeVIEW.)
