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  • Page 1 Operator‘s Manual ® optris PI NetBox Mini-PC for optris PI series...
  • Page 2 Optris GmbH Ferdinand-Buisson-Str. 14 13127 Berlin Germany Tel.: +49 30 500 197-0 Fax: +49 30 500 197-10 E-mail: info@optris.global Internet: www.optris.global...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................. 3 General Information ..........................6 Description ............................6 Warranty ............................7 Scope of Supply ..........................7 Maintenance ............................. 8 Cautions ............................8 Technical Data ............................9 General Specifications ........................9 Electrical Specifications ........................
  • Page 4 Protective Housing ......................... 13 SD Card ............................15 Mini-USB Socket ..........................15 Power Supply ..........................15 Operation ..............................16 Operation Modes ..........................16 Status LEDs ........................... 16 Stand-Alone Operation ........................17 Network Settings ..........................18 Remote Access to the NetBox (NetBox Utility) ................23 File transfer between NetBox and PC ....................
  • Page 5 Table of Contents System Information ..........................38 Watchdog ............................38 Startup ............................39 System Time ..........................40 System Recovery ........................... 41 Appendix A – Declaration of Conformity ..................... 47...

  • Page 6: General Information

    Thank you for choosing the optris PI NetBox. The optris PI NetBox is a miniaturized PC which expands the optris PI series to a stand-alone solution or which works as a USB to Ethernet converter. This mode generates larger possible distances between process (IR camera) and process control (PC).

  • Page 7: Warranty

    General Information 1.2 Warranty Each single product passes through a quality process. Nevertheless, if failures occur please contact the customer service at once. The warranty period covers 24 months starting on the delivery date. After the warranty is expired the manufacturer guarantees additional 6 months warranty for all repaired or substituted product components.

  • Page 8: Maintenance

    1.4 Maintenance The housing of the NetBox can be cleaned with a soft, humid tissue moistened with water or a water based cleaner. Never use cleaning compounds which contain solvents. Take care that no moisture infiltrates into the housing. 1.5 Cautions Take care that no foreign substances penetrate into the venting slots of the NetBox.

  • Page 9: Technical Data

    Technical Data 2 Technical Data 2.1 General Specifications Operating temperature 0...50 °C Storage temperature -20...75 °C Relative humidity 10...95 %, non condensing Material (housing) Anodized aluminum Dimensions 113 mm x 57 mm x 47 mm (L x W x H) Weight 385 g Vibration...

  • Page 10: Electrical Specifications

    2.2 Electrical Specifications Power supply 8...48 VDC or Power over Ethernet (PoE/ 1000BASE-T) Power consumption 7,5 W (+ additional 2,5 W for IR camera) Cooling active via two integrated fans Board COM Express mini embedded board ® Processor Intel Atom E3845, Quad Core, 1,91 GHz Hard disc 16 GB SSD...

  • Page 11: Installation

    Installation 3 Installation 3.1 Mounting The NetBox can be mounted easily on a DIN rail (TS35) according EN50022 using the supplied rail mount adapter. For this purpose please screw the 4 screws (M4) into the designated holes on the upper side of the NetBox housing.

  • Page 12: Controls And Connections

    3.2 Controls and Connections Figure 2: Connections NetBox Mounting holes for rail mount adapter Cooling fans CMOS battery compartment Micro HDMI socket USB 3.0 socket Functional Input (presently inactive) Ethernet socket (GigE) 2x USB 2.0 sockets Power supply socket Micro SDHC/ SDXC card slot Mini-USB 2.0 socket Status-LEDs (L1-L4)

  • Page 13: Protective Housing

    Installation 3.3 Protective Housing Figure 3: IP65 Protective housing (Alu die-cast) [Part-No.: ACPINBPH]...
  • Page 14 Figure 4: Protective housing with power Figure 5: IR camera with NetBox inside CoolingJacket Advanced for supply [Part-No.: ACPINBPHPS] ambient temperatures up to 315 °C...

  • Page 15: Sd Card

    Installation 3.4 SD Card The NetBox will be delivered with a 32 GB Micro SDHC card which is already installed on the unit. If required you can exchange this card. The NetBox is supporting Micro SDHC and Micro SDXC cards. To remove the card please take a ball pen or similar and push onto the card from outside carefully.

  • Page 16: Operation

    4 Operation 4.1 Operation Modes The NetBox can be used in three different operation modes 1. Stand-alone operation with an IR camera 2. Converter mode USB – Ethernet with direct connection to a PC (point-to-point connection) 3. Converter mode USB – Ethernet with connection of a PC via a network or via the internet 4.2 Status LEDs The NetBox is equipped with 4 status LEDs (L1-L4).

  • Page 17: Stand-Alone Operation

    Operation 4.3 Stand-Alone Operation As a stand-alone PC the NetBox can expand an IR camera to an autonomous system. For this operation mode you should connect a monitor with a HDMI input and a USB keyboard to the NetBox. If your monitor has only a DVI input please use a customary HDMI to DVI adapter.

  • Page 18: Network Settings

    After booting the NetBox the PIX Connect software starts automatically. If a PI is connected the first time to the NetBox the software will ask you for the calibration files. If you connect the NetBox to the Internet using the Ethernet connection the calibration files will be downloaded automatically.
  • Page 19 Operation If you use a PoE injector the power supply for the NetBox is not needed. In this case please connect the PoE injector as shown in the drawing below. The used Ethernet cables should be at least category 5 cables (Cat-5 according ISO/IEC 11801).
  • Page 20 Connection to the NetBox The communication with the NetBox is done via the TCP/ IP protocol (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol). The NetBox can get its IP address (Internet Protocol address) either from a DHCP server or it can work with a fixed IP address. On a direct connection to a PC both, the NetBox as well as the PC must use a fixed IP address because no DHCP server is available here.
  • Page 21 Operation If your PC is not connected to any network, please go to Change adapter settings after you opened the Network and Sharing Center. Now go to Local Area Connection, right mouse button: Properties. [continue at item 4] 3. Go to Local Area Connection – a status screen according [1] will be shown. Then go to Properties. 4.
  • Page 22 5. Please open now in window [3] the register Alternate Configuration and activate the checkbox User configured. 6. Now you can enter a user defined IP address for your PC. Please take care that the network part of the address has to be identical with the network part of the IP address of the NetBox, thus 192.168.0.

  • Page 23: Remote Access To The Netbox (Netbox Utility)

    Operation 4.5 Remote Access to the NetBox (NetBox Utility) For a remote access to the NetBox install at first NetBox Utility on your PC. You will find the setup program (install.bat) in the folder \NetBox Utility on your PIX Connect CD. Beside the utility software also the UltraVNC viewer will be installed.
  • Page 24 Please start NetBox Utility: Select the desired network adapter and press Scan. The Utility program searches for NetBoxes located in your network or directly connected to your PC. The filter function allows a selective search for NetBoxes only. Mark the desired NetBox in the window Results and press the button Start Viewer >>.
  • Page 25 Operation The UltraVNC viewer starts now and shows the desktop of the NetBox: Alternatively you can scan only a certain IP address range: Please mark the desired network connection up front.

  • Page 26: File Transfer Between Netbox And Pc

    4.6 File transfer between NetBox and PC To exchange files between the NetBox and a directly connected or in the network located PC please move the cursor to the title bar of the UltraVNC Viewer window and press the right mouse button.

  • Page 27: Netbox Control Center

    Operation 4.7 NetBox Control Center On the desktop of the NetBox you will find a short cut for the NetBox Control Center: The Control Center allows an easy configuration of the NetBox. On the tab Select you can select programs which will be started automatically after starting the NetBox: At Application you can select between PIX Connect, Imager Net Server and Custom Application.
  • Page 28 Application Operation mode of the NetBox PIX Connect Stand-Alone operation Imager Net Server Converter mode USB-Ethernet Custom Application Usage of the NetBox for other applications (example: You can select here the pyrometer software CompactConnect which is already pre-installed on the NetBox.) As factory default setting the PIX Connect will be started by the Control Center.
  • Page 29 Operation If, for any reason, the application is not working properly anymore (software crash), the NetBox Control Center will restart the software automatically (software watchdog) if autostart was selected. The tab Log Tool is giving you the following information: Software Restarts Number of software restarts Reason for last hardware Why the NetBox was restarted the last time...
  • Page 30 Figure 9: Screen of the NetBox – PIX Connect Figure 10: Screen of the NetBox – Imager Net Server...
  • Page 31 Operation Information in the Imager Net Server – application window: Menu File exit of the program Devices shows the connected imager Flag manual operation of the camera flag PI IMAGER # [Serial number] of the connected device T (C, F, B) Device temperatures (°C): C: FPA-Chip F: Flag temperature B: Housing temperature...

  • Page 32: Converter Mode Usb - Ethernet

    4.8 Converter mode USB – Ethernet In this mode the NetBox is used as converter from USB to Ethernet. Either a direct connection to a PC (point-to point) or a connection via an existing network is possible. On the NetBox the program Imager Net Server must be active Figure 11: NetBox as converter USB –...
  • Page 33 Operation Figure 12: NetBox as converter USB – Ethernet/ integration into a network After establishing the network connection please start the PIX Connect on your PC and open the menu item Tools/ Extended/ Remote devices..In the window which is appearing you should set a hook on Enable and enter the IP address of the NetBox (192.168.0.100 on a direct connection) or the address range of your local network at Detect devices The fourth block should have the range 0 to 255.
  • Page 34 For a faster search in a network you should activate the filter and enter NetBox. Now only computers with NetBox in their name will be shown. Figure 13: Search for network devices in Figure 14: Device selection in PIX Connect PIX Connect Under Hosts you can now select your NetBox and press OK.
  • Page 35 Operation The following functions can be selected here: Connect manual connection with the remote device Restart restart of the Imager Net Server application on the NetBox Reboot reboot of the NetBox Remove remove of the device entry in this menu If the used imager is connected for the first time to the NetBox the following message appears: Please confirm with Yes.

  • Page 36: Write Protection Filter

    4.9 Write Protection Filter The NetBox has a factory pre-installed write protection filter. This filter is protecting reliably the operating system and the complete drive C and allows a switch-off of the device without a shutdown of the operating system. The write protection filter is shown as symbol in the task bar.
  • Page 37 Operation You can select between four different actions: Save and Reboot Changes will be saved + Restart Save and Shutdown Changes will be saved + shut down Save and Standard Write Mode Changes will be saved + Switch into the write mode (green dot) Restore by Reboot Restart without saving of changes If you select Save and Standard Write Mode the context menu will change to:...

  • Page 38: System Information

    5 System Information 5.1 Watchdog If, for any reason, the main software application (PIX Connect or Imager Net Server) does not work properly (software hang-up or crash) or if the main application will be closed, the integrated software watchdog (via the NetBox Control Center) is restarting the program automatically. For this functionality it is required that the Autostart is activated in the Select Tool: In addition a hardware watchdog is monitoring the Windows operating system permanently –...

  • Page 39: Startup

    System Information 5.2 Startup In the Windows Startup folder of the NetBox the following shortcuts are set default: NetboxControlCenter starts the program which was selected in the Select Tool NetboxHardwareWatchdog starts the hardware watchdog application...

  • Page 40: System Time

    5.3 System Time The NetBox contains a CMOS battery which is used for keeping the system time if the computer is switched off. If a battery change should be necessary please open the battery compartment and exchange by a new battery of the same type (CR1225 or CR1632, depending on production date).

  • Page 41: System Recovery

    System Information 5.4 System Recovery In case a recovery of the Windows operating system of the NetBox is necessary you should use the supplied USB recovery stick. Follow the steps described hereafter. Do not disconnect power from the NetBox during the recovery procedure. After the system recovery the NetBox has the factory default settings.
  • Page 42 Step 2: Select Hard Drive BBS Priorities in the menu Boot and press Enter:...
  • Page 43 System Information Step 3: Select Boot Option #1, press Enter and select Intenso Basic Line (confirm with Enter):...
  • Page 44 Step 4: Now press F10 and confirm with Enter: The system will restart now and boot from the USB stick.
  • Page 45 System Information Step 5: Select Recovery system in the following screen and press Enter:...
  • Page 46 Figure 15: Screens during system recovery After a complete recovery the NetBox will restart and boot the system. After the booting process all necessary drivers will be installed automatically and a first configuration script will be started. Please follow the instructions:...

  • Page 47: Appendix A - Declaration Of Conformity

    Appendix A – Declaration of Conformity Appendix A – Declaration of Conformity...

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