Assigning The Driver To The Sound Card; How To Activate The Dcf77 Reception Service - Siemens PCS 7 Installation Manual

5.5.2.3

Assigning the driver to the sound card

Introduction
You can use standard sound cards to output acoustic messages.
The driver for the sound card must be assigned in Windows. For more information on the
availability of the drivers approved for use with PCS 7, refer to the
System PCS 7 Readme file (see "Preface (Page 9)").
Requirements
The sound card has been installed.
Procedure
1. If no driver is installed for the sound card, a "?" symbol appears in the right-hand window
of the Device Manager.
Install the driver for the sound card via the setup program.
You will find information on the availability of the drivers in the
PCS 7; PCS 7 Readme file (see "Preface (Page 9)").
2. Reboot the PC.
Additional information
You can find additional information about configuring sounds and assigning them to events in
the configuration manual
5.5.2.4

How to activate the DCF77 reception service

DCF77 reception service
The DCF77 reception service performs the following tasks:
● Evaluation of time signals from the DCF77 transmitter of the Physikalisch-Technische
Bundesanstalt in Mainflingen in Darmstadt, Germany.
● Comparison of the time signals with the system time of the PC station.
● Correction of the system time, if necessary.
A receiver module reads in the time signals in different ways. The reception service expects
the time signals over one of the serial ports of the PC station.
Note
You can use the "DCF77 Reception Service" application as a client application to synchronize
any number of PCs without the DCF77 module.
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